Word: bemoaned
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There is some emotion here despite the characters' failure to evoke empathy, but it is mostly a byproduct of gore and disfigured faces. For instance, when one boxer emerges comatose from a knockout, the audience cannot help but bemoan the unfairness of the underground, inner-city boxing circuits. One hopes that such barbarity is purely fictitious...
...stuff is diverse. Anguished lit majors scribble attacks on Derrida. Inarticulate crammers write obscenities on nearby walls. And the simply lovesick bemoan humanity...
...obsession with the object itself. It becomes "It." It excuses all other things, and replaces all other things. For example, though I have no plans for next year, I have told myself I shouldn't think about jobs and fellowships until March 19. Or I have forbidden myself from bemoaning my hypothetical love life on the grounds that as long as I am writing a thesis, the fact that it is only hypothetical is preferable. (This is, of course, a lie. I bemoan my hypothetical love life at least two hours every...
Whatever methods higher education administrators settle on to compensate for financial losses, academics bemoan the toll that the recession threatens to take on many universities' faculties and programs. They say they realize, however, that in times such as these, some hard decisions must be made...
These clever young men (they all appear to be that) are not distressed at the loss of virtue or values: they appear to bemoan the loss of power, the power to determine who will be sent to the stake and who will not. The well-modulated hysteria suggests at least two earlier occasions when an elite, in the name of the presevation of virtue and with an impeccable, unassailable logic, did in those whom it could neither control nor convert: the first of these took place in the ecclesiastical dungeons of pre-modern Spain, and the other on the gibbits...