Cahill expressed a lament commonly heard in America when he said in Australia: "It is a great life.
After one television network prematurely called Florida for Al Gore on election night, John O'Connor, the justice's husband, was reported to have expressed distress, lamenting that O'Connor wanted to retire and that Gore's victory would make this impossible.
I was lamenting the fall of Troy (echoing the fall of multicultural Sarajevo) and my staging sought to express that lament.
Could Yaz, Dom DiMaggio or Jim Rice express the lament of four generations any better?
He also expresses his lament that Australia's $46 million bid, which earned one vote as the World Cup was controversially awarded to Qatar, never stood a chance.
They may express a lament of an unlived life.
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.
One lament, expressed early on in her career, was that because of the respectable parts she played, she never seemed to inspire the kind of salacious fan mail some of her peers received, but, she added, prophetically: "If my health and strength keep up, I shall go on until I'm fairly aged".
Almost all the interviewees expressed one latent lament about too much screen time: It often prevents us all, children and adults, from engaging directly with the world and people right in front of us.
Nearly a decade after independence, Ukraine's broken deal with Russia over the Iranian plant is emblematic of a lament often expressed here and in the capital, Kiev.
