Word: lament
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...Meloy weren’t such a gifted songwriter. Meloy, who holds a degree in creative writing, pens tunes that are high on theatrical and story-telling effects, which you can tell even from a cursory glance at their titles: “The Legionnaire’s Lament,” “The Soldiering Life,” and “The Gymnast, High Above the Ground” all quickly prove that this isn’t a songwriter obsessed with any trite expression of young love. The band is set to drop their third...
...They should cheer instead. Big Breasts is a celebration of the power of women?as well as a lament about the fecklessness of men?in the world's oldest phallocracy. Mo Yan tells the story of Shangguan Lu, born in the last days of the Qing dynasty, raised with bound feet and married off to an infertile Northeast Gaomi blacksmith who is, she concludes, "a useless gob of snot outside the house and totally subservient in front of his mother." Desperate for a son, the girl cultivates a succession of other dolts and losers, who give her seven consecutive daughters...
Everyone is inclined to lament that outside of the classroom, faculty-student contact is relatively rare, but no one seems to expect otherwise. We interact with faculty members regularly in formal circumstances such as seminars and office hours; a small number of individual students enjoy one-on-one contact as research aides or thesis advisees. But apart from receptions at conferences or panels, there are no other occasions to interact in a more relaxed setting with our professors...
...protest, people had been called to pray, fast, dress in black (one woman wore nothing but red-white-and-blue underpants), turn their backs, skip work, boycott gas, spend "Not One Damn Dime" to bring the economy to a halt for a day of lament. There were flags burned and snowballs thrown, much jostling, some pepper spray. The satirical Billionaires for Bush auctioned off Social Security and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before moving on to their Re-Coronation Ball (its code: "Dress to oppress"). The spirit of the First Amendment floated down Pennsylvania Avenue, between protesters chanting "Racist, sexist...
With the best stories already told, the urban poets of the 1990s became fake black mafiosi with legendary gangster surnames, telling fantasy crime tales that were ridiculous to anyone familiar with real ghetto street crime. The socially conscious lament began to disappear with Dr. Dre’s 1992 magnum opus, The Chronic. The music that Chuck D had called the “CNN of the hood” was replaced by a downwardly spiraling culture defined largely by fraudulent performance and outright glorification of ghetto nihilism in exchange for financial success...