James Rutherford was Amfortas, stoically resilient in his great lament.
O Egypt, Egypt — so the great lament Of thrice-great Hermes went — Nothing of thy religion shall remain Save fables, which thy children shall disdain.
Mr. Daniels sang Orfeo's great lament, "Che farò senza Euridice?," with such lyrical directness and tragic dignity that this familiar aria seemed fresh and rhapsodic.
We climb up to its charming castle, from which the Armenian trumpeter plays at dawn the great lament of Katourian for the knights of the First Crusade, the "Chant de doleure pour li proz chevalers qui sunt morz".
But just because they have a monopoly on weather information — with a share of the audience for this subject estimated at 89 percent — doesn't mean they can mess with the great lament about the weather: everybody talks about it, nobody does anything about it.
"My great concern about the Labor party's position now – my great lament – is that it is engaged in a process that's taken them to the bottom where they've abandoned their principles, they've abandoned their own membership and a core constituency, and they don't have a plan B," Stanhope told Guardian Australia.
Even before they had read the book, reviewers, mindful of Günter Grass's recent novel, Crabwalk, about the fate of the refugees who went down in the Wilhelm Gustloff, were certain they were about to hear a great lament about German suffering.
(Her greatest lament: he rips her off).
For all the car's many admirable and quantifiable virtues, it is frustrating and disappointing to find it let down by little faults that coalesce into a greater lament.
Though she sings marvelously in one of the great Baroque laments, "Piangero," from a quiet center and with beautiful ornaments falling into the repeat section like slow tears, one is never quite sure of her emotional truthfulness.
