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144 examples of Woefully in a sentence

We failed woefully that first year, barely recruiting 100 brave souls.
While Mars and all the movies made in its name have reinvigorated the ethos for space travel, few of us seem to truly realize that our species' fragile constitution is woefully unprepared for long duration journeys into space.
All of these efforts are wonderful, but they're working in silos, and many of them are woefully underfunded.
Now that groupers and snappers are woefully overfished, fishermen are targeting parrotfish.
But behind the scenes, the actual experiential reality of a game world has remained woefully limited.
And if actually we created a Ministry of Detail and business actually had Chief Detail Officers, then that fourth quadrant, which is so woefully neglected at the moment, might finally get the attention it deserves.
I think this true marriage of art and information is woefully underused in adult literature, and I'm mystified as to why visual wealth is not more commonly used to enhance intellectual wealth.
Respected western auteur Budd Boetticher is woefully out of place with this choppy modern day cops and robbers story that suffers from a strong lack of emotional believability.
Secondly, the title character is woefully underused.
The acting is stilted, and the attempts at comedy are woefully out of place and forced.
Worse yet, he's woefully out of shape.
And, just as with "Planet...", its lead actor is woefully miscast and leaden; Guy Pearce, a terrific actor of great range, is all wrong for this role, giving a one-note performance that elicits zero sympathy; he's so dour and serious, and lacking in awe of the (supposedly) amazing things he sees that you don't believe for a moment that he's experiencing them.
One should, of course, resist the temptation to snicker when Laurence Harvey's Christopher Isherwood, (it keeps the original author's real name; God Knows what Isherwood thought of it), describes himself as 'a confirmed bachelor' and while Harvey is an utterly inadequate 'hero', (he's virtually asexual), and Shelly Winters woefully miscast as Fraulien Landauer, (the part Marisa Berenson played in "Cabaret"), Julie Harris is a perfectly marvellous Sally, (it's a lovely piece of comic acting), and Anton Diffring is first-rate as Fritz, the German-Jew in love with Shelly's character.
Based on your pathetically composed comments I can see that your own education has been woefully neglected... or worse... completely wasted.
Anyhow, this is a great study of a fascinating musician, woefully underknown, full of great stories, greater music, and it could have been 3 hours longer and I'd have loved it even more.
Also shows how woefully inadequate 'preparations' are for any such occurrence, as the government talks everything up but then stands there with their mouths hanging open as the tragedy unfolds.
And every punch and kick so woefully executed.
The script was dreadful, the acting uninspired, and all the characters woefully insipid.
The twists and turns of the original plot are woefully lacking here; the few that do exist are simply anticlimactic.
How is it that so many enjoyed what I consider to be a woefully bad adaptation of my second favourite Jane Austen novel?
You have Jennifer Beals on the one hand who is polished, professional and totally believable, and on the other hand, Ri'chard, who is woefully miscast and just jarring in this particular piece.
Unfortunately, their admittedly-colorful gimmicks cannot cover up the weaknesses of this updated plot, and the acting is woefully overripe.
There certainly aren't so many that I want to discourage film-makers from a genre that's woefully under-exploited.
Katherine Heigl is woefully miscast in a Lolita role and Leo Grillo manfully struggles with what is essentially a cardboard cutout character.
Charles Grodin is woefully miscast as the father for starters.
Bondarchuk of course had already been an established acting star for a decade but thespian skills mean little behind the camera, and as a director he was woefully unprepared to undertake a production of such scale.
If you were excited by the concepts of these two movies and felt woefully disappointed (like me), you will probably enjoy Renaissance.
It is impossible to watch this without comparing this to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and realizing how woefully inept this is as a follow-up film.
Worse, Jack Cassidy is woefully unfunny as a conservative cop who sexually harasses and finally seduces his beautiful young assistant.
Richard Kind from "Spin City" and "Mad About You" stars in this confusing farce as does the talented Olivia Hussey, but she is woefully underused in this movie.
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