Asked to explain what might lie behind this lack of public appetite for anything resembling contemporary music, Benjamin first laments the lack of serious coverage on television.
Hélène Guilmette, a lovely Oriane, makes a special impact in back-to-back minor-key arias in which she first laments her fate and then grieves over Amadis's supposed death.
After Maggie's mom first lamented to Bowersox that Maggie would trip over her too-long jeans, Bowersox tried to do some online shopping.
Jon Stewart addressed the scandal on Tuesday's "Daily Show", first lamenting the dollar he spent on a "LIVESTRONG" bracelet -- "Well, I think we all owe cancer an apology," -- then realizing how obvious it was that the former cycling star was doping all along.
Yuko Suzuki did exceptionally well in holding the required shapes as the embodiment of grief in the second "Lament" section.
In "Speranze, fuggite," the second lament, Hypsipyle pronounces the words "My heart is already dead" in an obsessive monotone while the ensemble rotates through various chords, creating psychologically suggestive dissonances.
"If you come up with a good one-liner, it's over and done with in eight seconds," laments Vine.
And a third lamented that George Bell, whose wall bore a New York Mets sticker, had not lived to see the team's run in the playoffs this year.
A threnody for strings, rich in aching suspensions, appears twice, first to lament the deaths of millions and later to mark a more personal loss.
Dessau wasn't the first to lament the passing of the Alternative Comedy Experience.
