Sentence examples similar to lamenting fades from inspiring English sources

In Britain the "long withdrawing roar" of Anglicanism that Matthew Arnold lamented faded to a distant echo in the 20th century.In America the number of churchgoers stayed high, but evangelical Christians retreated from politics, embarrassed by the failure of prohibition and the Scopes Monkey trial (in which creationists were mocked).

Whilst many white people in the UK find themselves lamenting their fading tans come September, the image-conscious in the Indian sub-continent are cursing the effect that the increasingly hot and extended summers are having on their skin tone.

Some gay activists lament the fading away of the eroticized outlaw mystique of homosexuality.

Mr. Lee recently lamented the fading tradition of "dragons ascending from the sewers" — smart children from poor families rising to the highest levels of business and government, as the president himself did.

Even protesters who once saw the WTO as the evil headquarters of capitalism red in tooth and claw might spare a moment to lament the fading of one-country-one-vote multilateralism it represented.

With her habit of lamenting the days when she ruled the halls of her high school as the prettiest thing in town, Mara Lynn is a bit too much like a faded-glory figure from an old Bruce Springsteen song.

"Another part of my youth fades into history," lamented one person on a newspaper website.

By then, he laments, the glory of this luxurious spa hotel had long since faded.

Bowden has lamented that the Seminoles have been lacking something in the past several years as they have faded from prominence in college football.

Even Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the suspected terrorist leader who was later killed by American forces, lamented in an intercepted letter to Osama bin Laden that the resistance in Iraq was fading fast.

Although the town has made determined efforts to keep up the cemetery, Mayor Bozzi laments that "no one comes anymore" - evidence that Pitigliano's once vivid Jewish past may be irretrievably fading.