I had all this stuff, and my lament used to be, what am I going to do with it?
As "Adagio for Strings," the movement became a powerful, effective signifier of public lament used in state funerals and Hollywood motion pictures alike.
"Routine" was the lament used by President Barack Obama as he addressed the country in 2015 after nine people were murdered at a community college in Oregon; it was his 15th address after a mass shooting.
I lament my children's excessive use of electronics as much as the next mother (and yes, we set limits).
I once lamented having used the word "lugubrious" twice in a novel, to which John's immediate cry was: "You shouldn't have used it once!" Amongst Women is surely his masterpiece, though I have a great fondness for his first published novel, The Barracks.
I fully lament the use of abortion by women who find their pregnancies inconvenient.
The novel is dedicated to him, and as Molly, who seems to have the same fixation as her creator, laments: "I used to long for you to approve of me, Jack.
"Today, no one has time, everything is done on a computer, everything comes out chik-chak," laments Kanan, using Hebrew slang for "quick" or "on the double".
But I often find myself in conversations with people -- both single partiers and partnered homebodies -- who lament, "Oh, I used to play the violin," or, "Remember when we used to do theater productions?" or, "I wish I still had the time to paint".
Last week, the UK rapper and poet Genesis Elijah released a spoken-word analysis of the riots, in which he laments: "We used to riot for a cause / Now we riot just because".
