Word: bewailing
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...court’s credibility, its integrity and the rule of law.” Amid all of their hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing over the perceived disregard for “precedent,” the Times, however, never bothered to defend the procedure whose prohibition they bewail...
Listen to Delbanco bewail our current solipsism in his fifth book, The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope: "If we fail to contribute to some good beyond ourselves, we condemn ourselves to the hell of loneliness." He notes that "the highest aspiration" of our "soul-starving present...is to keep the body forever young." He dares to use terms like destiny and Satan and still show his face in Manhattan, where Heaven and Hell are merely the names of competing downtown bars...
...anticipates yet another new politics, born of a wide and deep disgruntlement with the status quo. Her evidence for the coming revolution is thin. The low voter turnouts she and her shadow conveners bewail as signs of disgust might just as plausibly be taken for the sleepy indifference of a fat and happy populace. But her larger charge--that the two parties, in thrall to a self-satisfied elite, have become homogeneous, to the detriment of a robust political debate--is far more plausible. Anyone who doubts it should be forced to explain the difference between George Bush's "compassionate...