Sentences with word «lamentable»

A number of refugees are socially and economically marginalised and disadvantaged and live in lamentable conditions; they are poor and homeless.

(This is a virtue of the otherwise lamentable fact that the idea of the Trinity itself does not make sense.)

The writer - director, who had once reduced himself to a punchline with lamentable failures like «The Happening» and «Lady in the Water,» is back in the business of well - crafted, unpredictable and frightening crowd - pleasers with this latest.

These were dismissed as lamentable by lawmakers of all parties and of course rightly so.

But if diving in the penalty box is the most lamentable of such offences, it must also be stated that there is a demeaning tendency of players to dive in search of free - kicks all over the field.

OTTAWA — In a letter to an employer in his Ontario riding, a Liberal MP says his own government is wrongly invoking the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on its controversial Canada Summer Jobs attestation, and calls the whole thing «regrettable» and a «lamentable state of affairs.»

Link to our Chief Executive's blog for ITV News «Lamentable situation» of domestic violence victims at risk of losing children

That's the Ready, Fire, Aim method, with lamentable results.

He warned that the government's «lamentable history of procrastination» meant that it was unwise to expect «speedy progress», but argued that the differences between the processes made the de-linking a prudent step which would simplify divorce proceedings and take the strain off the oversubscribed financial remedies administration:

As if to compensate for the star's lack of dramatic oomph, the supporting performers tend to ham it up, with mostly lamentable results.

A Cabinet minister has admitted that the implementation of the Universal Credit system was «pretty lamentable» in its first two years.

Duhaime's site contains many entertaining legal alleyways, including one devoted to tasteful lawyer jokes and another, called the Hall of Horrors, that examines the law's lamentable record of punishment through the ages.

He co-wrote and produced the short film THE CONTINUING AND LAMENTABLE SAGA OF THE SUICIDE BROTHERS, which won Best Comedy at The New Hampshire Film Festival in 2009.

Within regional life, the cessation of dialogue brought about one of the most lamentable outcomes of the war.

The clearest example of our field's disregard for the old and valuable — and this disregard's lamentable consequences — relates to urban Catholic schools.

Hirschman found that these were in lamentable conditions, because the people most likely to voice their concerns, were the first ones to switch to buses and trucks.

No question about it, that's a long - established and lamentable truth.

Given the slew of lamentable comedies that have become synonymous with his name, it is strangely moving to see him (unforgettable in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch - Drunk Love) tenderly singing duets with his 18 - year - old daughter, Eliza (Grace Van Patten).

In short, there are sufficient means in place to sanction lawyers who engage in the sort of lamentable behavior that proposed Rule 8.4 (g) seeks to address and to deter such misconduct in the first place.

That would be lamentable if smaller companies were responsible for driving economic growth.

Kia and its sibling Hyundai have made remarkable headway on the quality and reliability fronts since they first arrived on these shores with such lamentable efforts as the Pony and Sephia.

The enlistment of the intellect in the business of personal aggrandizement is lamentable enough, I suppose, but it's hard to imagine when high - octane careerism will finally be purged out of congressional politics.

«What is truly lamentable is that you continue your hyper - partisan attacks and do not actively seek to engage those with whom you have policy disagreements in a legitimate discussion on how we can improve the economy in our state and nation,» Faso wrote.

In 1884, the British Medical Journal reported that the influential psychiatrist James Crichton - Browne had testified to the UK parliament: «I have encountered many lamentable instances of derangement of health, diseases of the brain, and even death resulting from enforced evening study in the case of young children, with the nervous excitement and loss of sleep which it so often induces.»

«For [writer - director Sean] Baker, this is an empathetic peak: a truthful and sublimely bittersweet slice of life, tracing celebratory highs and lamentable lows on the outer economic edges of the Sunshine State.

Not gonna play Persona anytime soon but wow that sucks badly... would really hate to have a game that doesn't allow the use of Share.I already get mad on a game that blocks some scenes from Share let alone the whole game.I get that they don't want spoilers to get out but that's just lamentable.

It's an understandable if still lamentable self - delusion.

According to them, the official Church had the opportunity of avoiding all the errors and theological rashness which led to the persecutions of heretics, wars of religion, witch - hunting, and all the other dark and lamentable events of Church history.

Adam's sin was deeply lamentable, but it is not bound up in the cosmic catastrophe that either Marcion or the later Augustine envisioned.

Some of the most lamentable collapses in history have taken place in overextended lives which neglected this elemental necessity.

A book like Harold Begbie's «Twice - Born Men» is an inspiriting record of folk whose lamentable start was redeemed by a great conclusion.

Rome started appointing faithful bishops and they began to accept and adopt the resources lay people had created often in the face of lamentable opposition by their predecessors.

Just as King Herod's slaughter of the innocent is unsurprising (though lamentable), so too is the language of post-reproductive humanity, such as that hinted at by the author of the «Five Year Plan» or, in more sophisticated fashion, by Lauren Berlant and Michel Foucault.

Yet in making iniquity obvious and uncomplicated, the film departs from Tolkien's heroic fantasy in lamentable ways.

Such debacles are highly lamentable.

One of the most lamentable aspects of the Christian Church's history is the way religious leaders have insisted on clinging to the outmoded world view of the Bible and have fought every new expansion of knowledge about the universe.

Lamentable refusals are likewise to be cured so far as they admit of cure by the cultivation of the atrophied function.

I mentioned 4 lamentable circumstances in the short season already and as ever your stock Wenger - worshipping response has taken the crumb of doubt in ONE instance and declared that enough to somehow undermine all I say.

I think we had enough lamentable talks and praise worships from Rhino» and co; to last us this season.

We can't always be blaming the boss but some of our Gunners performance are equally lamentable.

Back - to - back hammerings at the hands of also - rans Bournemouth and Watford coupled with lamentable exits to Arsenal in the Carabao Cup and Barcelona in the Champions League must have severely tried the Russian's patience and his thoughts on Saturday when Chelsea went 2 - 0 down to relegation - threatened Southampton would have been interesting to gauge.