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Example sentences for: deplore

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While we may deplore that sex has become the dominating factor in many young people's lives, the goal should be to expand and emphasize the nonsexual means of personal expression ("liberation") available to them, not to return to the repressive and contaminating moral hypocrisies of a previous age.
And we deplore it.
If a stalkers' lobby itself didn't pipe up, at least civil libertarians who deplore the double-jeopardy implications of a federal stalking law would have criticized it.
Even people who deplore Clinton's behavior are getting sick of seeing it rehashed on television.
The undersea sci-fi adventure is dismissed as "another variation of the same old supernatural junk" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Critics deplore the film's pretentious pronouncements about man's place in the universe and say Levinson is "out of his element" trying to build suspense (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Janet Maslin calls the stars' performances irresistible and salutes Levinson for tackling a new genre.