It seems churlish, at best, to lament easy access to one of the world's most vital commodities.
Much of the £16.5m that the LSO has already raised for its St Luke's project has come from companies.The purists' best-grounded lament is that top-selling classical CDs are such an unchallenging lot, chiefly film music "Harry Potter, Lordrd of the Rings", trite compilations (Classical Chillout Gold), and cheesy tenors and the products of eye-catching artistes.
Hattie Collins of NME was highly impressed by the beats in the music, which she called "pure cranium-crushing boom bap at its best", but lamented the lack of "rubbish lyrics" and clumsy charm that distinguished West's debut album.
That the mystery unravels too quickly exposes the novel's joyless Gothic artifice: its relentless verbiage and erotic whimpering see it veer between aesthetic treatise, romantic thriller and, at best, a poetic lament for Venice.
"Foreigners were our best buyers," she lamented, particularly the British and the Irish until 2007.
One of the truly liberating aspects of Blurred Lines is that at its best it matches laments with laughter.
Though versatile and ceaselessly curious, Ms. Figueras may have been at her best in stately laments and lullabies; she sang heart-wrenching renditions of Monteverdi's madrigal "Lamento della Ninfa" and the traditional Catalan Christmas Eve chant "El Cant de la Sibil-la".
Which isn't to say that the written routine is anything short of superb: in one of the best moments, he laments the difficulty of parenting his seven-year-old daughter, noting that "she's headed for a great life unless I fuck it up" — which he does, of course, accidentally teaching her that one day the universe, which includes all the things that she loves, will cease to exist.
The last and best reason not to lament too strenuously, today, is that we need not worry about Paddy.
"It is hard to think what my best team is," Allardyce lamented.
