Robertson's mixture of outsider naïveté and enthusiasm was a necessary part of writing one of the Band's most enduring songs, the Lost Cause lament "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," in such a way that it might be heard today, unlike so many other neo-Confederate rock songs, as performative and observational rather than explicitly political.
Soon thereafter, U.S. Cold War strategy assumed a more assertive and militaristic quality, causing Kennan to lament about what he believed was an abrogation of his previous assessments.
Michael Burke is an economic consultant and a former senior international economist with Citibank in London Today's release of GDP figures showing a contraction will doubtless cause much lamenting from commentators.
European policymakers are underestimating the extent to which events in Cyprus may yet destabilise the rest of the euro area, says Jacques Cailloux of Nomura.Cypriots have cause to lament that its rescuers have made a desert and called it peace.
At a press conference on Monday, the interior minister Ahmed Fria, rather than asking to be pardoned for the decades of misery and repression his ministry visited upon Tunisians, set about berating the public for causing trouble and lamented the loss of "respect for authority", noting that a pupil cannot ask to change his teacher.
The public rarely notices a steady hand on the tiller but may have cause to lament its absence.
In my customary purview- nutrition, public health, disease prevention- I have had cause to lament periodically the apparent hegemony of Newton's third law.
"I come from a fighting family," Mayweather likes to say, and life has given him plenty of cause to celebrate this legacy and some cause to lament it.
New musicals based on popular movies cause devotees to lament the days when Broadway was not a recycling plant but a hotbed of cultural creativity.
In the former, a young Zelda sings the lament: "Cause you may never get to East Egg / Not if you're bold, barefaced, or sly / If your origins are in West Egg / They say you'll stay there until you die".
As Sean at Make notes, this kit causes us to "lament the general state of affairs we have come to thanks to litigiousness, chemophobia, and flagging scientific literacy".
