Wading in the darkness, I am more prone to lean into the laments of Jeremiah (Lamentations 2 11), the moan of Rachel Mattheww 2 18), and the tears of Christ (John 11 35).
They are laments of weakness and victimhood.
The laments of the landless poor.
He said that politicians were "blind and death to the laments of the people".
ONE of the strangely enduring laments of the American theater concerns playwrights leaving for television.
The furious revolutionary laments of Jeanine have a distressingly sentimental tint.
The laments of women waiting seven years for their lovers to return from the sea.
The laments of the bridge builders and the sappers and the miners.
The laments of those hanged or transported for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread.
"You read all these laments of people who feel so strongly about this," he said.
Americans have been writing and reading personals — anonymous love notes, laments of missed connections, offers of marriage — for generations.
