Sentence examples for bitter lament from inspiring English sources
In the second "song," the people of Ur and of other cities of Sumer are urged to set up a bitter lament.
In this endeavour he was at first singularly unsuccessful, for three of his sons in succession proved unreliable to the point of treason; one of the most remarkable and humanly revealing documents of the period is a long and bitter lament in which Hattusilis chides his sons for their infidelity and ingratitude.
Ten songs later, "Drowning Man" closes the record with a bitter lament for what Church views as America's forgotten working class: those who "put the smoke in a stack" and "the seed in the ground" but have increasingly little to show for it.
Everything special about Ms. Stewart was encapsulated in her version of "Solitude," the bitingly bitter Duke Ellington lament about finding yourself alone without love.
That is to say, if Madison weren't a "people's republic", weren't a college town, then Ms Moore would not have experienced the bitter incivility she laments, because Ms Moore and her progressive ilk would live elsewhere, and Wisconsin's unionised public employees wouldn't have stood a chance.
And in his 30-minute eulogy, the former vice president lamented how bitter politics has become, recalling how he and Mr. McCain used to sit with another on the Senate floor until the leaders of their parties reproached them for the show of bipartisanship in the 1990s.
It sounded more like a frustrated lament from a bitter and hate-filled man who is unable to live in peace, but unable to win his war.
A poem written by an anonymous trooper, entitled The Black Soldier's Lament, showed how bitter the disappointment was: Stripped to the waist and sweated chest Midday's reprieve brings much-needed rest From trenches deep toward the sky.
"There is probably now no city in the civilised world which is unacquainted with the terrible scenes of rioting and pillage which disfigured the name and record of Luton and turned the town's Peace Celebrations into a bitter mockery," the local paper lamented after protesters burned down the town hall in 1919.
With these bitter comments, Thucydides not only laments the loss of a man he admired, but he also heralds the flickering of Athens' unique glory and grandeur.
