Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hours; and it must needs be interested in many things that will hereafter appear trivial and empty. But the test is whether the news reporter has told what for the moment is worth knowing, as an evidence of the actually significant human passion of the day, What I especially lament, then, in the journalism of the day is the too frequent absence of this ideal. Too often the newspaper appeals to the weaklings and to the sick among its readers rather than to the whole men and to the strong. As for the cure, that must come from the ability...
...Columbia Spectator" makes the following lament in regard to the misfortunes of the Columbia nine...
...trust it will gird up its robes of office instead of allowing them to trail in the mire. We cannot refrain from expressing our deep sorrow that the "old ally" should so far have forgotten its role of "ally" as to give its more powerful "ally" occasion to lament the apparent desertion of the "old ally." We have discovered, however, in our limited experience, that community, and antagonism of interests are diametrically opposed, and that while the former may have a tendency to keep an "ally" faithful, rivalry is sure to be the result of the latter. There...
...John Daniel Barry, "The Lament of OEdipus." - Sophocles...
...John Daniel Barry. "The Lament of OEdipus." - Sophocles...