Word: lamentations
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...members expressed the need to tone down the strength of the verbs chosen by the staff in descriptions. Until now, the editors have used verbs such as "lament" to describe the regrets of respondents and "exalted" to describe their praises...
...Clinton's apologists have sounded the perverse lament that he might have been a great president if only his times - the 1990s - had not been so prosperous and peaceful. There was not enough challenge around (no Great Depression, no world war) to elevate Clinton to the top rank of presidents with FDR or Lincoln. When times are fat and everyone in the television ads from cabbie to widow seems engaged in wireless trading, building a portfolio, then the followers of the land may grow frisky and cavalier about their leaders. They indulge the conceit that Bill Gates or Alan Greenspan...
Peanut, it turned out, wasn't the only songwriter in the family, and it is Melba who is responsible for the peachily titled "We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds," a Louvin Brothers-esque lament about a couple's straying and eventual reunion...
Though much of loss is anchored in the past, some people who lose their parents lament a future they will never share. Stuart Chapin's father died when he was 25, his mother five years later. Chapin, now 40, considers what their relationship might have grown into had they lived until he'd passed his 20s, which were so consumed by a desire for independence. "I, like my parents, have sat up with a sick child. I, like my parents, have juggled mortgage payments. You receive when you are young. Now you are in a position to share the experience...
...lament the absence of objective facts about the conflict in the Middle East. We should not have to worry, however, that The Crimson is contributing to this lamentable situation...