Last year, the novelist Nicole Krauss wrote an essay for The New Republic extolling booksellers and lamenting their approaching extinction.
While Japanese diplomats privately lament his aggressive approach, Mr. Komatsu's apparent untouchability comes from careful cultivation of his political base -- fishing companies, fishing towns and fishing unions -- each a pillar of support for Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Human Rights Watch lamented the "failed approach to corporate accountability" in its 2013 world report (pdf).
We lamented that whatever approach we selected meant compromising at least one component of learning — whether failing to cover the basics of "what happened," neglecting the "big picture," or not stimulating personal contributions to the material.
"Turkey is shooting itself in the foot again by not ever thinking about how to have a creative policy toward Kurds and how to use this window of opportunity, this period of calm, and the willingness of these political Kurds to try to establish a new approach," lamented one European ambassador.
The song Only Ones Who Know is typical of this second-person approach, a wistful lament on lost chances and wrong choices.
As commentators from across the country continue to lament law enforcement's passive approach to the occupation of government buildings – arguing that if the protesters were black or Muslim, the response would have been swift and violent – Dowd said he wished people would stop criticizing the protests and instead visit the compound.
I lament the Obama administration's approach to the bloody slaughter in Syria.
Everyone laments their shortage as autumn approaches; and everyone has given utterance to regret that the clear, bright light of an early morning during spring and summer months is so seldom seen or used".
But the adjectives "rigid" and "polarizing" also come up, along with a lament about an "all-or-nothing" approach.
In the 34th stanza Venus is lamenting because Adonis is ignoring her approaches and in her heart-ache she says "O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind, She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind".
