Sentence examples for woefully late from inspiring English sources
The delay makes the City Opera woefully late in a field where singers are typically booked years in advance.
First, she said, the immediate reaction to the spill — on the part of Exxon, as well as of state and federal governments — had been woefully late and grossly inadequate.
First, she said, the immediate reaction to the spill on the part of Exxon, as well as of state and federal governments—had been woefully late and grossly inadequate.
Last month's appointment of the Washington lawyer Clifford Sloane to the role of a state department post to help negotiate Guantánamo transfer arrangements, at long last provided some hope for the beginnings of a way out of the mess, but it's woefully late in the day.
Non-euro countries will be allowed somehow to participate in the supervisory system, though it is hard to see the ECB being able to watch over banks across multiple currency zones or give a meaningful voice to non-ECB members in its councils.Too European to failThe euro zone was woefully late in trying to stabilise its banks and ensure that taxpayers do not have to pay when they fail.
Activists, however, say the church acted woefully late and that abuse and coverups continue today.
Until American audiences came to appreciate Traylor, we had only the grandchildren of slaves to count on for crafting a woefully-late catharsis for the shame of American hatred, terror, and criminal handling of Africans and their American descendants.
In the Guardian the show was denounced as "five years too late … woefully out of touch" by Neil Boorman of the Shoreditch Twat, a fanzine aimed at real-life Barleys who possibly missed the point that Nathan Barley wasn't supposed to be a scrupulous reflection of Hoxton groovers but a surreal tweaking of their world.
He has fallen woefully behind with the latest research, only recently coming to terms with the wonders of PCR.
We've all been there when we've felt woefully unprepared for the latest holiday battle of the brains.
If we are learning anything from the latest round of woefully predictable slaughter it is how a festering problem got worse, not better, during the Arab spring.
