| While the retail end of the coffee industry is booming, production is in a lamentable state. |
| On the contrary, these are among the most lamentable debits on the balance sheet of empire. |
| Although not what the musicians intended, the dirge provided a wholly apposite soundtrack for a truly lamentable second half performance. |
| That apart, this lamentable lack of learning is also what the American schooling system cultivates. |
| It was not the mythical, moral 1950s but rather the supposedly lamentable late 1960s that this film was concerned with. |
| I regret that in our own country there has been a lamentable lack of interest in our common European inheritance. |
