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So the Mets may yet lament not adding another outfielder.
But it was a lament, not a diagnosis.
There are rare occasions when I lament not having an assistant.
Does the Chinese peasant, they ask, really lament not being able to google the Dalai Lama?
Have no fear, though, and lament not those big budgets of yore.
One of the communications allegedly referred to a list of potential signings and included the pointed lament: "Not many white faces amongst that lot".
This, you feel, is Osborne's lament not just for the collapse of his hero and the music-hall of which he was a part.
In his 1679 preface to Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Dryden says, "we lament not, but detest a wicked man, we are glad when we behold his crimes are punished, and that Poetical justice is done upon him".
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