A recent national newspaper feature bemoaned – with surprising ferocity and not a little generalisation – the "darkness" of current teen fiction: complained about the absence of anything joyful or humorous currently being offered to children.
We were with a friend of ours last week, discussing his dating life, when as he often does, he bemoaned with complete exasperation his inability to find anybody suitable to date in this tiny town of 8.7 million inhabitants.
Mike Freeman wonders on CBSSports.com if the Bengals' lack of discipline contributed to his ultimate demise, and Kevin Blackistone of Fanhouse.com bemoans someone with so much promise who becomes just another statistic, another young black man to die a violent death.
Not one of the above, be assured, was bemoaning difficulty with his sense of touch.
Besides, there were plenty of other mistakes to bemoan, beginning with the Giants' inability to produce a single take-away from Michael Vick and the turnover-prone Eagles.
He has bemoaned similar – with different aspects of his game – elsewhere but has still won twice since the turn of the year.
The number one spot is awarded to the Coke Zero ad, the one featuring an incredibly smug set of lads bemoaning girlfriends "with five-year plans" as they arrogantly wave their Coke bottles around.
But many here bemoan comparisons with Recife, another city in the region that is the political base of Eduardo Campos, a contender in next year's presidential elections, and has a lively cultural scene that produced "Neighboring Sounds," Brazil's critically acclaimed submission in the Oscar race for the best foreign film.
The roadster study features more conventional headlamps than the coupe (a change that few are likely to bemoan), along with unique 10-spoke alloy weels, 18in up front and 19in at the rear.
It's a pleasing image, though Morris bemoans the obsession with "making horses into stallions" in the pursuit of money.
