The phrase "lamenting voice" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe someone speaking in a sorrowful or regretful way. For example: The old man sighed deeply and spoke in a low, lamenting voice.
"Her accent was awful," lamented one voice.
I still don't know why.Tish S., Ottawa I've heard the lament voiced in the article: that the early parenthood years thrust people into relationships of shared circumstance rather than shared interests.
The lament, voiced often in the movie and even more in the book, is that science, with its endlessly nibbling doubts, has drained the world of wonder and meaning, depriving humans of, among other things, a moral compass.
Which is why I was dismayed to find only a single voice lamenting the absence of Robin Cook from the Telegraph's compendium, the author many crime fiction aficionados, myself included, believe to be the "Godfather of Modern British Crime Fiction".
As the chorus of voices lamenting the latest drop in the dollar suggest, it may well be time for Americans to emulate the ant.
When opera lovers aren't quarrelling over the deeds of directors, they are often heard lamenting that contemporary voices fail to match the legends of yore.
And on stage, Mnouchkine's aesthetic has changed: instead of extrovert theatricality, what we get is a sober mosaic of voices lamenting cultures and countries left behind.
My social media sites are full of friends decrying anti-Muslim sentiment, planning interfaith vigils to commemorate September 11 that include Muslim leadership and voices, lamenting the nasty turn of the nation towards bigotry and exclusion.
Chang echoed the sentiments of The Village Voice in lamenting that the film failed to pursue the premise to "darker, more daring territory" and faulted it for falling back on "over-the-top comic exaggeration".
And in 1829 The Morning Courier chimed in with a satirical plea from the usually unlit "Lamp-Post #10", which lamented in "the voice of one crying in the darkness, 'I will be heard since I cannot be seen.' " IN 1835 The New York Daily Advertiser reported that 14 "valuable oak and hickory trees" on a farm somewhere between 14th and 57th Street had been cut down during the night and stolen.
