alas

The theater’s importance as a locus of intelligent inquiry and intellectual ferment—not momentous, alas—owes a great debt to his influence.

“I’ve still so much to say in music,” he said to a friend, “alas, I cannot get my ideas onto paper!”

The Windsors’ world is far from that of ordinary mortals, but no measure of diplomacy, alas, seems sufficient to repair such a tear in a family’s fabric.

Students and parents don’t get to vote in union elections, alas.

The food was OK, alas — a passable brisket burrito, chalky queso, insipid guacamole.