How To Use Woefully In A Sentence
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Public expenditure on the arts is woefully inadequate.
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The language of brotherly love was not so easy to speak as he had supposed and was woefully short of imperatives.
DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
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By lawmakers' own admission, Ireland lagged woefully behind its Western counterparts when they introduced adoption legislation in 1952.
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In the aftermath of a credit crunch, with banks across the world still woefully undercapitalised, still paying fortunes in bonuses and still not accepting the full write-offs on their pre-2008 lending, this is especially worrying.
Don't blame the euro for the ills besetting Ireland's economy
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They were young men with horn-rimmed glasses and bow ties and even younger women with long braids, some serious and others smiling, but all appearing woefully unprepared for life on China's harsh northwestern frontier.
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Most people have forgotten that Apple introduced its first handheld device back in 1993: the woefully bad Newton, which was about the size of a hard-bound Stephen King novel big! and had truly pathetic handwriting-recognition software - supposedly its biggest selling point.
How they sell you what you don't understand
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This is where I realized that my childhood, and indeed my life so far, has been woefully incomplete.
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Early indications suggested a woefully low turnout.
Times, Sunday Times
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I realize that Flower Markets are a dime a dozen, all over France, but they are woefully rare here in the US – and never with such a profusion of ranunculi, mimosas, and anemones!
Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day
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After all the pre-match hype it was woefully disappointing.
The Sun
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Dudgeon made himself look like a schoolboy as he woefully mistimed a header on the half-way line.
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Christ his pattern, which it is his duty to express in his own; and he who takes up Christianity on any other terms doth woefully deceive his own soul.
Pneumatologia
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He's also a terrible miser, hoarding gold in his attic while his poor young wife - who has agreed to the arrangement only to protect her woefully indebted father - wants for the smallest pat of butter.
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Either you're woefully unprepared for a big test or you're naked.
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Determined to find a way to get myself to France, because my one day trip to St Malo during a family holiday to Jersey was clearly woefully inadequate for French oral purposes, I managed to find a penfriend through a magazine.
French exchange
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The brake pedal likewise; when fitted with anti-lock brakes, pedal response is woefully mushy.
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I feel woefully inadequate to even review their programme because they left me speechless and with only the ability to utter superlatives.
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However, the reason it is truly grim is because it is badly sung (often woefully out of tune), poorly produced, and mixed in a food blender.
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The hint of flare was woefully insufficient and so subtle bright red insets had to be added for extra width.
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I have no idea what to expect really, having only been to one very small convention before, and from which I think the most important thing I took away was the fact that I’m woefully disfluent in all things Doctor Who.
2010 Australian Specfic Snapshot: Stephanie Campisi
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Traditional concepts of security were woefully inadequate to meet the new challenges faced by humankind.
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After spending time with Gina and contemplating my own woefully juiceless existence, I resolved to do something about it.
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United looked woefully short of menace in attack.
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United looked woefully short of menace in attack.
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I spoke to one Scottish applicant who appeared to be woefully oblivious to what the job actually entailed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pulmotor and similar mechanisms are, perhaps, the best things the use of which can be taught to laymen; but as compared to bronchoscopic oxygen insufflation they are woefully inefficient, because the intraoral pressure forces the tongue back over the laryngeal orifice, obstructing the airway in this "death zone.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
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On what might seem an unrelated note, the performance of American stock analysts was woefully inadequate in ferreting out and making public the all-too-obvious weaknesses in the mortgage securitization field, and the greed of all too many institutional investors in seeking “quick and unrealistic profits” was a major factor in creating the circumstances that led to the mortgage meltdown and the current recession.
Writing the Whole Enchilada « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
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Sent forth to ferret out the shadowy terrorists, U.S. troops would go woefully unprotected against biological weapons.
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When the bizarre and woefully ugly characters of Royston Vasey experience thunderbolts and lightning in their beloved village, they begin to imagine it is the end of the world.
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I spoke to one Scottish applicant who appeared to be woefully oblivious to what the job actually entailed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Individuals and businesses appear woefully uninformed about this aspect of the information age.
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The United States has woefully underfunded its national infrastructure, according to a bipartisan congressional commission, the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission.
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it was woefully inadequate
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It's great to hear the inner-workings of Madsen, whom in my opinion, is quite unique and woefully unappreciated.
/Film Boston - An Interview with Michael Madsen | /Film
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After all the pre-match hype it was woefully disappointing.
The Sun
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Clueless and gutless is the tagline for this woefully inept administration and you betcha, I miss the dolt Bush.
Obama will visit Gulf region
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Individuals and businesses appear woefully uninformed about this aspect of the information age.
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Sourav Ganguly, once legendarily dismissive of spinners but now woefully out of form, was dropped by Younis Khan at silly mid-off.
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At a time when the job of protecting our food safety is woefullyunderfunded, the USDA has spent over $118 million on just the beginning stages of aso-calledvoluntaryprogram that ultimately seeks to register every horse, chicken, cow, goat, sheep, pig, llama, alpaca or other livestock animal in anational database -- more than 120 million animals.
Today is the most TERRIBLE day in the history of US farming
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The language of brotherly love was not so easy to speak as he had supposed and was woefully short of imperatives.
DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
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Health-care reform, his first hope, was woefully mishandled.
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Those that do exist are woefully underfunded, especially compared to their peers that deal in political engagement.
Christianity Today
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Tuesday's installment was looking woefully predictable until North Carolina Dance Theatre hit the stage with Appalachian strings and a barnstormer aptly named "Shindig.
Bluegrass pickin' perks up Ballet Across America's opening
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In my view as a health researcher, the medical profession today stands woefully ignorant of dietary knowledge.
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The much-vaunted plot ‘twist’ stretches your credulity to the limit: suffice to say that in order to believe it, you would also have to believe that Skinner is woefully unobservant.
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The United States has woefully underfunded its national infrastructure, according to a bipartisan congressional commission, the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission.
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Now I'm thinking that I am woefully underprepared for an emergency of that magnitude.
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And in fact, those standards have been dummied-down so much that students who are, you know, on track are often barely able to graduate from high school and are totally, woefully inadequately prepared for college.
Students Quiz Education Sec. Arne Duncan
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(I'm a terrible speller and my spell checker is woefully inadequate!)
Bob McDonnell- Not Running a 1989 Campaign
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But as a theoretical basis for the protection of these rights and freedoms, such ideas are woefully inadequate.
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Even members of the forum admitted to the Sunday Herald this week that they were woefully ill-equipped for the task.
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All these touches seem as woefully accurate as they always did, set against that banal English netherworld of market towns and motorway service stations.
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How we die is an essential but woefully undiscussed element of how we live.
Times, Sunday Times
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Assume the past resembles the simple patterns and clear verities of myth and the stories we write and call history will be woefully incomplete, hopelessly simplistic, and shamefully neglectful of others who were there.
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A lecture on Gall were woefully incomplete without some reference to the press, that "archimedean lever" and "molder of public opinion.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
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Five tries should not be sniffed at, particularly in the context of Scotland's recent history, but they should have beaten this woefully unambitious and technically poor opposition by 60.
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Peter informed his readers that, within a week of his first encounter with this woefully underutilized deverbal noun, someone else used it in this very thread.
Open source theology - Comments
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But he somehow contrived to scoop over the bar and then also fired another shot woefully off target.
The Sun
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The pulmotor and similar mechanisms are, perhaps, the best things the use of which can be taught to laymen; but as compared to bronchoscopic oxygen insufflation they are woefully inefficient, because the intraoral pressure forces the tongue back over the laryngeal orifice, obstructing the airway in this "death zone.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
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The rest of the performances are woefully underpowered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although it may seem like we're saturated with credit cards these days, the bank claims we are woefully inadequate with our plastic when compared to the United States.
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I have no money after barely managing to scrape the rent together last Friday, and my bank account is woefully overdrawn.
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This is simply untrue as kerygma and woefully inadequate for churches to teach as social ethics.
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Pure exhilaration is in woefully short supply at the movies.
'Inglourious Basterds' wages a thrilling, powerful war
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It has become woefully steeped in cliche for me in the last three episodes.
True Blood--Again...Episode 9
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While being woefully underprepared overall, I'm at least semi-prepared for 4 of the 5 possible essays we'll have to write.
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She calls Pratt ‘woefully small and bigoted’ and mocks his ‘imposing avoirdupois.’
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Only the woefully ignorant think that the term fossil is restricted to bones and other body parts that have become encased in stone.
Think Progress
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Early indications suggested a woefully low turnout.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let us not exclude from the discussion the third father of science fiction, a man as inventive of basic tropes and ideas of our genre as Wells, but woefully neglected: Olaf Stapledon.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?
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While latching on to the up-country trend, the industry here found itself wrong-footed and woefully short of male dancing talents.
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We boaters spend many times more dollars on our waterborne vessels than we do on our autos yet we are woefully unprotected when it comes to poor workmanship.
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Second, these attacks will prove woefully counterproductive for the terrorists.
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Early indications suggested a woefully low turnout.
Times, Sunday Times
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For those of you who are woefully unhip to the ways of the Internet, this ancient tradition (adhered to by almost no one but me) means that the proprietor of the weblog is swamped and won't be posting much for a while.
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Hylas, nor was the rapt of Polyxena more throbbingly resented and condoled by Priamus and Hecuba, than this aforesaid accident would be sympathetically bemoaned, grievous, ruthful, and anxious to the woefully desolate and disconsolate parents.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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In one dream world he stood, surrounded by either semi conscious or woefully unchivalrous government officers in a smoky, gutted building.
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Performance in every instance fell woefully short of promise.
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Possibly not the woefully inefficient BT, but certainly Gas and 'leccy companies.
Their Own Worst Enemies
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Throughout, a good set and props are woefully underused.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fiennes is woefully miscast as the darkly mysterious adventurer.
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He has been woefully ineffective in his attempts to construct the kind of latticework party structure that can help those who want to involve themselves in Conservative politics to climb to positions of influence.
Struggle for Power: Canadian Politics 1972
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Returning to the main point, I fully agree that for those in the humanities to remain woefully ignorant of the sciences is to remain in the bleachers of an intellectual life.
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The knock-on effect is that the streets are sewers of foul-smelling rubbish and discarded flyers, with which the council seems woefully unequipped and disinclined to deal.
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While the first three films found fair to ingenious methods of circumnavigating this problem, the fourth is so unconcerned with feasibility that it resorts to woefully convenient schemes for recording the poltergeist's antics.
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The intelligence agencies are woefully short of people fluent in Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu, and this is remediable.
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We were woefully outmatched in numbers in this new mortal weapon of the air.
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Anyone who chooses to stay at home with their kids is seen as woefully unambitious and deserving of contempt.
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I have no money after barely managing to scrape the rent together last Friday, and my bank account is woefully overdrawn.
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In light of this record, Fein's assertion that Senator Kerry has committed a "constitutional dereliction" is not only wrong, but woefully unconstructive.
Frederick L. Jones II: Bruce Fein Sullies the Debate on Our Role in Afghanistan
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Haydn, even if marginally heavy-footed, is always a party for your ears and woefully underrated in this country.
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The interior of the gallery had become woefully shabby, with dull grey walls, poor flooring and harsh fluorescent lighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reliable cause of death statistics are woefully lacking for developing countries and of less than desirable quality for many developed ones.
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Building work at a penthouse apartment in a luxury York flats development was ‘woefully inadequate’, a court heard.
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It's not that she's is a bad actress (she's solid in comedies and light dramas), but she's woefully miscast here.
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And the evidence presented is woefully inadequate to prove anything, notwithstanding the absolutes of science.
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most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized
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The mono soundtrack likewise shows its age, with a thin, tinny aural palette and a woefully underequalized dialogue track.
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Not only does this perpetuate a harmful vicious cycle which overrates the quality of Chinese food in Taiwan, it is woefully and demonstrably inaccurate.
Archive 2006-11-01
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Just like the Meryl Streep commercial about alar horrified new moms away from apples in the late 1980s, fear-mongering messages about mercury in seafood contribute to the woefully low amount of seafood women eat today in the U.S. The distinction is that seafood- and omega-3-deficient diets introduce measurable risks to health.
Jennifer McGuire: Why You Should Eat Fish
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They remember the sharp fear of unwanted pregnancies, and the fumblings in the dark with the woefully inadequate contraceptives that preceded it.
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United looked woefully short of menace in attack.
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The brake pedal likewise; when fitted with anti-lock brakes, pedal response is woefully mushy.
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Last fiscal year, the center chalked up a $ 1. 5 million deficit after falling woefully short on donations.
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Riots do tend to be woefully imprecise, but they are generally not random or unmotivated.
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It also appears that his shares are going to be woefully inadequate to satisfy his creditors.
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The range of discourse and debate in news media, though woefully constricted, is still meaningful.
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The audience's surrogate -- in order words, the hero with stupidly romantic ideas about how life should be and little sense of self-preservation -- is the euphoniously named Jacob Jankowski, played by the woefully untalented Robert Pattinson.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Water for Elephants
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This Budget is woefully inadequate in redressing this appalling situation.
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After all the pre-match hype it was woefully disappointing.
The Sun
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The pantheon of legendary female rockers and rappers is woefully small.
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The pantheon of legendary female rockers and rappers is woefully small.
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I felt woefully under waterproofed to face the weather beyond the harbour mouth.
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The safety precautions taken by large resort hotels are often woefully inadequate for the number of people who stay there.
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ANAMORPH is also woefully subservient to too many overplayed stereotypes- the jaded cop, the personal investment in the case and subsequent suspicion, the bolshie polar-opposite New Partner figure painfully acted by Scott Speedman might I add, and the obligatory Dead Ex-Partner.
From a different perspective ANAMORPH might be good. But Simon isnt convinced… | Obsessed With Film
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She describes a CBS News anchorman as "badgering" her in a notorious interview which appeared to reveal her as woefully under-informed and ill-read.
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Meanwhile, librarian Jane Lane has recently had to discard around 100 social science books because they were woefully out of date.
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Entire lives are laid out with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; a bored husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that his ego has led him woefully astray; a world-beating Silicon Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion in the hills; a scuba dive guides uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return.
Fun with Problems by Robert Stone: Book summary
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But for the vast majority of musical artists, their copyrights are a woefully inadequate tool for leveraging their way to a mass audience.
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Facilities for early detection and intervention woefully fall short of requirements.
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The interior of the gallery had become woefully shabby, with dull grey walls, poor flooring and harsh fluorescent lighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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A government, woefully ignorant of science, continued maladministering the war.
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However, the two are woefully miscast, the script is terrible, and the result is a mind-numbingly boring mess.
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Individuals and businesses appear woefully uninformed about this aspect of the information age.
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However, I find that most people are woefully uninformed, lay, clergy, and religious alike.
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Reliable cause of death statistics are woefully lacking for developing countries and of less than desirable quality for many developed ones.
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Arms-length disengagement or a perpetual posture of ‘standing ready to help’ is now woefully inadequate.
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And while Scotland were long on perspiration, they were woefully short on inspiration.
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Neurology is a woefully underfunded discipline.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was inspired by TAOS, an OS aimed at distributed systems that used a low-level virtual machine to make code portable; BeOS didn't really impress me much, but Oberon had some interesting ideas if woefully inadequate on the multiprogramming side.
Snell-Pym » ARGON
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To be sure, this mission has been woefully ineffective from the start.
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The 21% haircut on the net present value of Greek bonds outstanding, which was painfully agreed to by the banks and the Europeans earlier this summer, appears to be woefully inadequate.
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The school's text books are woefully out-of-date.
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Individuals and businesses appear woefully uninformed about this aspect of the information age.
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However, while I woefully miscalculated the percentage points, I was dead-on in my place predictions.
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He is woefully miscast here - he's supposed to be a hard-edged cop who has been pushed to despair by the failed sting at the opening of the picture.
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In that sense, much of media keeps stoking the hot coals of unthankfulness - dismissing what we already have as woefully insufficient.
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It was really just out of curiousity to see how to upload things to YouTube, and also to test the capabilities of my video phone, which turned out to be woefully poor, and my new bluetooth gismo, which still works like a dream.
The One With Baby's First Video
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The interior of the gallery had become woefully shabby, with dull grey walls, poor flooring and harsh fluorescent lighting.
Times, Sunday Times