Word: lament
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...this way--a fact that many current undergraduates, who have limited access to the theater and its facilities, lament. But since the American Theater arrived on the scene, the role of student drama has been greatly affected--in what students say are both good and bad ways...
...might expect a professor at this university--at any university--to lament the virtual destruction of a great center of learning. The sufferings of British sociology are no worse than those of other subjects--indeed, were Professor Patterson better informed he would realize that philosophy and anthropology have suffered most...
Consider this weekend a long-awaited reply to your lament of several years ago, before you sent your budding venture capitalists, gene splicers and leftfielders to Harvard. "I only wish I could go with you," you cried...
...same applies to the liberal use of quotation marks, which run through the books like tiny underscoring arrows. The Message to the Planet is overly fond of this intrusive nudging. Here is the latest Murdoch female masochist in full lament: "Franca contained in her breast a storm of anguish and violence so terrible that she had at times, when she was alone and longing to 'break down,' to clutch her breast." Terrible, for that matter, is a favorite word. So are appalling, awful, horrible, dreadful and all forms of the word dark. "These dreadful ideas, horrors from the past...
...vaginal art." She is fortyish but still, she keeps assuring us, attractive: "I don't look worse than a 22-year-old -- to some men I look better." And like all Jong alter egos, she is looking for love in all the wrong places. The result is the bitter lament of a successful woman sexually obsessed with a much younger man. Leila keeps citing Colette and Cheri, but Cher comes more readily to mind. Come to think of it, so does Norma Desmond of Sunset Boulevard...