Since the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, these memorials have become ritualized spaces for expressing deep lament and righteous anger against the death-dealing consequences of our nation's systemic criminalization of people of color.
We compose eulogies for young people gunned down, sit with too many grieving parents who have endured the unspeakable tragedy of losing a child, and struggle week after week to find words to address in public worship the deep lament of one senseless tragedy after another.
He frequently laments the deep boredom of prison life.
"We are between the devil and the deep blue sea," lamented a Cairo hostess the other evening, as her white-jacketed servant delivered goblets of red wine on a silver tray.
Much of the prose is simple atmospherics – "The only sound was the ticking of the office clock," runs a characteristic opening to one of the 81 chapters – but there are also deeper moments, as when Mikami laments that, as a detective, he should have understood sooner a vital detail of his daughter's disappearance, but, at the time, "he'd changed into a father, nothing else".
He also lamented that "deep scenes" exploring his character Peter Parker were cut.
Right, David Koch?On Friday, conservative billionaire David Koch lamented the deep federal cuts that are expected to impact both the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute and, by extension, MIT's new David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
The problem Jewish leaders are trying to tackle is deeper than the perennial lament about ostentatious bar mitzvah parties, revived last month with a YouTube video from Dallas of a bar mitzvah boy hoofing it with Vegas-style showgirls.
These people, lawyers and activists, have lamented the deep cuts in newsrooms across the industry, saying they have for years relied on the work of investigative reporters to spotlight judicial injustices.
Burke, revealing his deep respect for monarchy, lamented the treatment of Marie Antoinette by the French revolutionaries, to which Paine, in reference to the suffering of the French people, replied, "He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird".
