Sentences with phrase «sorry affair»
The phrase "sorry affair" refers to a situation or event that is pitiful, disgraceful, or disappointing. It suggests that what has happened is unpleasant or regrettable. Full definition
, a 2015 documentary chronicling the whole sorry affair set for release this year, it seems like the original Fantastic Four film won't be forgotten any time soon.
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There is no naughty step for Dean and his linesmen (who are getting off pretty lightly in this whole sorry affair).
As mentioned, the sorry affair becomes the latest saga involving the club — who spent a season playing their homes game at Northampton Town's Sixfields ground, after they became embroiled in a row with the company that owns the team's usual stadium, the Ricoh Arena.
In conclusion of this sordid and sorry affair the logical question one must ask is would the current management have persisted with a 17 year old called Francesco Totti?
Lunches at our school — Woodham Academy — a 760 - strong secondary school in County Durham — used to be a sorry affair.
The only people who behaved with dignity during this sorry affair were the organizers of the Jaipur Literary Festival, who understood their duty to the organization, its sponsors, participants and audience, and in doing so realized the shallowness of the posturing over free expression that threatened to derail the event.
They have also operated a system that is neither fair nor justifiable and rather than admit this to all those they have wrongly taken money from, they continue to put as many obstacles in the way of a fair outcome to this sorry affair as they can think of.
This whole sorry affair has been immensely damaging to everyone involved.»
But what's kind of sad about the whole sorry affair is that there's really no reason the film had to be this bad — watch the opening, with the well - cast stars (Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Michael B. Jordan and Toby Kebbell) going through an overfamiliar but effective origin story / getting - the - team - together arc, and it feels like we're in for something quite tolerable.
If that is true, Mr. Djoghlaf said, then the climate accord reached in Copenhagen in December, in which world leaders agreed — in principle — to try to limit human - driven warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, is a sorry affair.
At the root of this sorry affair is the crucial question of whether Americans are free to lambast public figures on matters of great import.