Sentences with phrase «many lamentable»

Even more lamentable, arrogant people often find trouble getting hired.

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.»

But when you don't have any answers there is a lamentable tendency toward denial or deliberate evasion, even if that leads toward the ridiculous.

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

And then all hell will break loose, a lamentable scenario that will nevertheless present opportunities that are likely to be both extraordinary and ephemeral.

VHA assumed that to be the state of the law - lamentable but nevertheless true.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., with which I am pleased to be affiliated, was founded in the 1970s in large measure to combat the perception that an intellectually and morally impoverished understanding of the dominant American religious traditions had rendered those traditions useless, or (as in the lamentable presidency of Jimmy Carter) worse than useless in guiding Americans» thinking about a sensible and responsible foreign policy.

Before the resolution passed, there was some lamentable parliamentary drama.

It is lamentable that Thor had to die once lightning was explained on naturalistic grounds.

It is lamentable that American psychiatry has abrogated its professional role and allowed public hysteria to define the transgender phenomenon.

As waiting lists for voucher lotteries and a 55 percent increase in charter - school students since 2004 attest, many parents, and disproportionately poor and minority parents, appear more than willing to shoulder this lamentable burden.

The situation is even more lamentable for the general public, which is fed a constant stream of propaganda by specialists in environmental issues from the mainstream media and well - funded alarmist blogs.

Without this effort you will experience the lamentable scourge of «small talk» which lacks the ability to truly impact another individual.

Why indeed is there such a lamentable shortage of leaders for youth organizations, of prison visitors, of doctors willing to go to the disease - ridden parts of the world?

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

Whatever the moral failures or outright hypocrisy of the old establishment, however, Wall Street's current ethos is even more lamentable.

They want us to moderate our reliance on nuclear deterrence without either denying its lamentable necessity or pretending its morality.

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.

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

Every life has its weak spots, its lamentable elements, and if we insist on emphasizing them we can make miserable business out of living.

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

A thousand-fold repaid will be», with its lamentable concluding lines, «Then gladly will we give to thee!

What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.

Of course those formed in the theological vision behind the National Project may well not think the above findings of factual ignorance are particularly lamentable.

The lamentable polarisation and confusion which has developed as a consequence of these conflicting interpretations of our present situation is only too familiar to anyone involved in the life of the Church and has led all too often into destructive polemic rather than real dialogue about the best way forward for Catholic Christianity in the third millennium.

His lamentable and perhaps only serious error seems to be the one thing the general culture still retains from him.

Such insistence shows a lamentable ignorance of history, sociology and psychology.»

Now as he went thence to the place where he was to vanish out of their sight, they all followed after him weeping; but Moses beckoned with his hand to those that were remote from him, and bade them stay behind in quiet, while he exhorted those that were near to him that they would not render his departure so lamentable.

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.

Lamentable, however, is the absence of any discussion, suggestion, or offer of public repentance.

That Prof. Novak and his coauthors chose to lower the level of discourse not only in First Things but in their strident letter in the April 2002 issue of Commentary, in which they dismiss the possibility of dialogue with Prof. Levenson «in his present state of mind,» is most lamentable.

For someone whose own field of study, medieval and Renaissance English, requires a keen appreciation of language, this misunderstanding of the dynamics of Hebrew poetry is lamentable.

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.

For many of my peers who grew up within this peculiar milieu, it was enough to sour them on Christianity entirely (lamentable, but understandable).

The way that religion has been bandied about in American politics over the past decade or two has often been lamentable.

Even more lamentable, many who are interested in Dewey have come to him through Richard Rorty, the philosopher turned literary critic who claims to be Dewey's apostle in our time.

Similarly, Paul's statement, lamentable in modern ears, that it is better to remain unmarried but that if one can not remain unmarried without being unchaste, «it is better to marry than to burn,» (I Corinthians 7:9.)

I hope to God that most of you are under the age of twenty, because honestly, it's a lamentable shame if even half of you are older than I am.

In so far as this restriction of the sense of duty to the kinship group was illustrated in war, modern life presents lamentable parallels.

Although the dismissal of other disciplines is lamentable, it is right and good that science is taken as true — because it works.

«What is so helpful about the incarnational analogy,» writes Enns, «is that it reorients us to see that the Bible's «situatedness» is not a lamentable or embarrassing situation, but a positive one: That the Bible, at every turn, shows how «connected» it is to its own world is a necessary consequence of God incarnating himself.

The lamentable result is «religion - free education» that «indoctrinates» the young into viewing secularism as the only frame of reference - a state of affairs neither neutral nor fair.

Two factors above all have contributed to implant and to foster this hesitancy: on the one hand, the very structure of the discipline which serves as a sort of introduction or preparation, to the science of religions (one knows that the majority of historians of religions are former philologists, archeologists, historians, orientalists, or ethnologists); on the other hand, the inhibition created by the lamentable failure of the vast theoretical improvisations of the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth (mythology considered a «disease of language,» astral and naturist mythologies, pan-Babylonism, animism and pre-animism, etc.).

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

This inability is particularly lamentable because it is evident that the culture itself is in crisis.

Such debacles are highly lamentable.

Yes, there is a lamentable lack of «historical,» not to say philosophical and intellectual, rootedness in premillenialism and in other manifestations of sectarianism.

We will classify them as necessary, accidental, lamentable, and factitious.

But I will probably never share that with you because tripe is not easily obtained in these parts, not to mention my innards appreciation is lamentable.