A few years later, I wrote a piece for the Times titled " 'My Name Is Not Cool Anymore,' " in which I lamented, among other new inconveniences of living as a Muslim man in America, the lost cachet of the name "Mohammed"—how people who had thought of "Ali" or "the Greatest!" were now apt to think "Atta," the last name of one of the ringleaders of the September 11th attacks.
A few years ago, I wrote a piece in which I lamented that the internet was failing the website preservation test.
No one ever wants to know where I came from, since I'm pale enough and sufficiently boring-looking to appear to other White people as a born-and-raised American, which I often lament that I am.
Which was why I lamented the demise of In the Psychiatrist's Chair and why I'll also miss On the Ropes, which is being axed in October on Radio 4 to make way for more science.
I lamented about the Commonwealth Games, which presumably I would now miss, along with everything else in the calendar that I had intended to play.
Jerri lamented, by which I mean whined, "I've aged like five years in one day," severely underestimating the years as usual, as she debated whether to betray Bulbous, or Rob and Voldepussy, or whether she could still swing her life-partner's vote to the Dark Side.
This was the bleak period in which Abraham Lincoln lamented, "I don't believe there is any North": Fort Sumter had just fallen, but Northern troops had not yet mobilized and reached the capital.
In 2005 he wrote a stinging essay for Salon, "What Kind of Latino Am I?," in which he lamented the stereotypes automatically attached to any American writer with a Spanish surname.
Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, has spent nearly three decades trying to promote democracy in the country formerly known as Burma, about which he once lamented, "I have never spent more time on an issue and made less difference".
As a philosopher, I lament our philosophical situation (which is, I believe, part and parcel of the human condition).
In 1989, after Black Flag had already split up, I read an interview with Greg Ginn in which he lamented how hard it was to find dedicated, hardworking musicians.
