Word: lament
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What Col. Lindbergh should have said is, "We must be as impersonal as the professional mourner, who doesn't lament the seriousness of the plague, or the number of fatalities, as long as it helps his own business...
...winsome South Dakotan on NBC and the urbane Canadian on ABC are all white, lean and youthfully middleaged; all part their dark, wavy hair on the left. They do vary somewhat in manner: Dan Rather of CBS is intense, Tom Brokaw of NBC is quick to laugh or lament, and Peter Jennings of ABC is elegantly detached. The newscasts that they anchored last week, in heavily promoted head-to-head competition, were almost exactly alike, not only in content but in specific imagery...
...this, the lament that ballplayers used to be better remains mostly just a feeling, influenced by modern irritants. Pharmaceutical reports in the sports section have grown longer than the box scores, and money has impinged on the game past the point of cynicism. We look back on impoverished players longingly and regard the present lightly. Awe is reserved for memories, and not always even our own, sometimes our fathers...
Last year's dance single "Temptation" was the best of New Order's early forays into disco and probably the best electronic dance music yet made. Its sobriety and minimalism could not hide an incredibly catchy hook and oblique lament that could bring a tear to the eye even while you danced...
...Larry Foreman (Randle Mell), is a knight in blue-collar armor. We meet Mister's toadies: mousy Reverend Salvation, sycophantic College President Prexy and craven Editor Daily. As a whore with a heart of tarnished nickel, Lisa Banes is achingly vulnerable, and Michele-Denise Woods keens a militant lament for her injured brother in Joe Worker Gets Gypped...