Stravinsky described the opera as "lamentably provincial", considering the musical portrayal primitively realistic. Allan Dart of "Fangoria" called it "monotonous, silly and lamentably predictable". Lamentably these norms are ignored by the administration of the penitentiary institutions. Some of the best films ever made, as Elder proves, are lamentably all but unknown. Like so many post-nationalisation classes the K1s had lamentably brief lives. Life in the primeval forest fell lamentably short of the ideal he had pictured. I am lamentably disappointed - in her, I mean; not in him. Richardson, however, describes the term as a "lamentably ill-chosen metaphor". Lamentably, this judge was not supported by the others. Lamentably, he went back to Hong Kong in early April 2012.