Sentence examples for woeful of from inspiring English sources

Remember "Queen for a Day," the TV show in which a jewelled crown and prizes, such as a washer-dryer, were awarded to the woeful housewife contestant who could convince the studio audience that she was the most woeful of all the other housewife contestants?

Africa is a place where expedience trumps moral niceties, and where benevolence reliably boomerangs with the most woeful of consequences: nothing is so dangerous as a righteous man.The plot involves a Christian aid organisation that buys and liberates black slaves captured by northern Sudanese Arabs during rapacious raids on southern villages.

It consists of graphic reportage of the woeful ways of the naughty noughties and the insouciant attitudes of those who indulged in them.

Such toilsome efforts are of me required, Because of the woeful lack of parking In Leicestershire.

It is merely a symptom of a woeful lack of spending on a key aspect of travel infrastructure in the run-up to a hugely important event.

Mr Snowden's ability to walk off with a stash of NSA documents is grave evidence of a woeful lack of internal controls.

To me, one of the more disturbing aspects of the current backlash is that it is illustrative of the woeful state of science education in the United States.

It is behind on debt repayments and accused of a woeful lack of transparency.

Their fate is symptomatic of the woeful state of Canada's armed forces.

He has never been elected to public office and has demonstrated a woeful lack of understanding of international affairs.

Faced with sharp criticism of the woeful state of government schools, Indian policy makers have enacted a sweeping law intended to reverse their decline.