Sentence examples for while deplorable from inspiring English sources

This swift one-two, while deplorable, was hardly unexpected.

Considering that Green was 83 at the time, the jealous rage that ended his life, while deplorable, might be viewed by some as a compliment.

In Dhaka, most of them live in mammoth slums that while deplorable for their squalor are notable for being less squalid than others.

While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.

"Mr. Sain's emails and voicemail to Representative Fields, while deplorable, were not threats".

On the other hand Gustav Linor, writing in the leading theatrical magazine Comoedia, thought the performance was superb, especially that of Maria Piltz; the disturbances, while deplorable, were merely "a rowdy debate" between two ill-mannered factions.

While the deplorable attack came at the hands of an extremist group, the collective response of the Muslim world has clearly not been supportive of the actions of a few.

Individual racist incidents, or indeed a compilation of them, while upsetting and deplorable, cannot be regarded as representative of the views of the general population.

While it is deplorable that the worst of the Khmer Rouge leaders will likely get off scot-free, it would have been worse had the United Nations lent its name to show trials.

Hillary Clinton quickly one-upped Huntsman, sounding positively Reaganesque as she called the Communist Party's response to the Jasmine Revolution "deplorable" while predicting that history will sweep China's government into the dust bin.

(Whichever he was, it was enough to get him blacklisted for a while. That was most deplorable of all).