Sentence examples for Lament something from inspiring English sources

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For it sounds like the title of a beautiful song, a German lament, something my father might have listened to on a Sunday afternoon, when he still did.

With just a red-lit curtain behind him, it becomes a dignified taproom lament, something autumnal for old friends and lovers to gather to.

And the song is a lament, something camp and bluesy, about how there ain't no shame in being a bitch, but, Lord, be a bitch that barks.

And yet, when the statement "You do not die" returns, minus exclamation mark, it may perhaps seem to amount to more than a private lament, something nearer the expression of vengeful resolve.

Ms. Leon's protagonist, hired to sort through newly discovered documents left behind by Steffani, recalls tunes of his that she has heard: "What was that heartbreaking lament, something about 'Dal mio petto'?" And Ms. Bartoli sings a good many of them, including that one, from the opera "Niobe".

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When Spaniards complain about the gaze of the foreign media, they may also be lamenting something homegrown.

Lew lamented, "Something special happened during the first three years, and after we got the grants it didn't happen anymore".

And after Dylann Roof, a white 21-year-old high school dropout and the apparent author of a vitriolic anti-black diatribe, was arrested and charged with the killings, commenters on another white supremacist site, Stormfront.org, lamented something else: the possibility of the massacre's leading to gun control.

But they may also be lamenting something much bigger: not just the passing of a great liberator but the era of great leaders.

Carter laments; "Something that started as a gay black/Latino club music is now sold, shuffled, and packaged as having very little to do with either… It often seems to be the case that some types of people receive preferential treatment in certain matters, and it's not normally the ones with a cultural disadvantage". .

You have an elegy here, a beautiful and plangent lament for something or someone lost.

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