As all people of quality are aware, youth is by nature a parlous state.

Previous reports had already demonstrated the parlous state of medical provision in the area.

We are told repeatedly that Shakespeare criticism is in a parlous state.

If this scenario occurs then Britain will be in a parlous state indeed.

It is true that civilization bears responsibility for the tree's parlous state.

But people with that kind of pedigree may be put off by the department's parlous state.

Gentlemen, I do believe that the country is in a most parlous state.

And more unemployment is the last thing the European economy needs in its present parlous state.

General concern about the parlous state of British film production was expressed throughout the 1920s.

By this point, Chelsea were in a parlous financial state and losing £12,000 a week.