Lucretius compares the time before we were born to that after we die – no one laments that they felt nothing before they arrived on the Earth, so why should they worry about a similar situation when they depart it?
No one laments restructuring of underperforming schools.
And yet no one laments loudly enough the absence of a next generation of inspired musical theater librettists; Terrence McNally isn't going to live forever.
While no one laments Saddam's passing and violence is down from peak war levels, the country is fragile, with grave tensions between Sunnis and Shiites and Arabs and Kurds that could yet erupt into civil war or tear the state apart.
He spares no one, lamenting the current group-think bake-sale state of the Church of Satan in his chapter on individuality.
In isolation no one would lament the quality of its image.
No one should lament nicer venues moving in.
Except for one lament about a late state budget, none of the letters mention state business.
They are enjoying their more mellow environs, but Ms. Moran has one lament: "We miss the food".
The novel, which throws the past into relief, makes one lament the present.
