Word: woefulness
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...Baltimore Orioles began the season with 21 consecutive losses. The O's would be known forever for that streak, unable to joyfully face into oblivion like any other bad team. The string of losses became their woeful, defining trademark...
...team's woeful performance in the field clearly over-shad-owed its solid hitting and pitching...
...deflect the international issues at hand between the U.S. and China to matters of "internal affairs," both Chinese and American. Certainly, to point out the U.S.'s inequalities (which we can expect to be exacerbated in the fallout of the Newtonian Congress) is no panacea for China's woeful inability to understand democracy, and Tong's choice to ignore China's growing social problems (guns and crime, a floating workforce of over 100 million, IOU's to farmers, severe poverty) is obvious...
...flawed premise, Lat criticizes the high schoolers for demonstrating "a woeful lack of knowledge," standing for platitudes, and arguing "a poor excuse for a case." Apparently, Lat has forgotten what it is like to be a nervous, inexperienced fourteen year-old from a random American high school, debating at the mythical Harvard University in front of mythical Harvard students. These debaters do not have the eight years of debating experience that Lat has; indeed the Harvard tournament brings many schools that only have the money for one or two tournaments a year, and thus, their students may not have...
High school debaters are supposed to be some of America's best and brightest. They came to compete at Harvard from top schools across the nation. But for every budding John Rawls at the tournament there were many more students who demonstrated a woeful lack of knowledge about U.S. history, politics and culture, as well as the English language...