In July, 22 senior figures from the region, including Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa, wrote a public letter bemoaning the decline in transatlantic ties.In this section End of an affair?
At a news conference the next day, public officials bemoaned society's "obsession with guns" and the problems the culture creates.
Public intellectuals bemoan that Americans today gravitate towards a "happy consensus", but I see no happy consensus being reached; I just see debate that is stronger than ever simplified and sensationalized by the media.
Pictures from nights out with friends, "mirror selfies", status updates detailing the level of her hangovers and bemoaning public transport started to filter into my feed – Cassie is just like any other person of her age, but she's had a tough life.
The complexity of the public screen warrants neither bemoaning a lost past nor celebrating a technological utopia.
The sizes of seats on public transportation are bemoaned.
While critics of the influence of social media on the public square may bemoan the brevity of tweets, the anonymity of online commenting, or the "lowest-common-denominator" tendencies of the web's multitude of "most-viewed" lists -- done right, online conversations between people and their public officials create a more open and transparent national conversation.
Many in the public sector bemoan the success of the Freedom of Information Act, worrying about time wasted on vexatious requests from activists and journalistic fishing trips.
Carson has spoken at length in the past about personal responsibility and its intersection with poverty, bemoaning systemic dependence on public assistance.
From Glenn Greenwald to Glenn Beck, Ezra Klein to Erick Erickson, columnists, bloggers and pundits are now bemoaning the dearth of public statements on crucial issues or legal rulings to examine, ahem, controversy.
