Sentences with phrase «lamentable fact»

This is a lamentable fact.

It is a strange and lamentable fact that while this country has a great number of good track men, it has very few good tracks for them to run on.

Hearing Wolterstorff's quip, one would never guess that great figures from the Christian past like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, who affirmed openness to procreation as one of the essential goods of marriage, were well aware of the crude technologies of contraception of their day and the lamentable fact of infertile marriages.

This is indeed a lamentable fact; but there is a wisdom which is not from above, but is earthly and fleshly and devilish.

Its effects compensate for all the sorrows that inevitably come to mind, when people with firm views about the way things are and should be sit down together to reflect on the lamentable fact that the world is in other hands than their own.

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

Not exact matches

Until the wee Scotsman with the rock - star sideburns arrived on the scene, the idea that several top drivers would crash fatally every year was considered a lamentable but acceptable fact of life.

Demystifying the Environmental Sustainability of Food Production, a paper by Jude Capper, Roger Cady and Dale Bauman, demonstrates either a lamentable misunderstanding of the impacts of livestock production practices, or a willful effort to misrepresent the facts.

Poor fact checking by the lead author, leading to a lamentable result.

The fact that there is, is what tees me off more than anything about the lamentable state of affairs in the purportedly «modern» world.