The initial narrative of public housing was outrage over the deplorable conditions of privately owned slums that led to the creation of promising new developments.
So at this point, photojournalistic efforts had shone a light on the deplorable conditions of slums and privately run charitable homes were already an established precedent.
I suspect that most of them ascribe these books' unexpected success to unpredictable and deplorable lapses into good taste on the part of the reading public.
Finances at the red-brick house would have been in a deplorable state, but for Uncle Henry's intervention, and it humiliated Pitty to take money from him.
The Origins of Totalitarianism 极权主义的起源 汉娜·阿伦特 by Tom
This is all the more deplorable as the need for an impartial, truthful treatment of Jewish history has recently become greater than it has ever been before.
He published these images of impoverished communities in his book How the Other Half Lives, which looked to sensationalize and expose the dangerous and deplorable living conditions of the city's poor residents.