Word: lamentingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...served have a special responsibility to listen to and try to understand those who have. The most common complaint I've heard from troops recently returned from Iraq is that Americans are oblivious to what soldiers have to do every day over there. At the heart of that lament, inevitably, is the debilitating emotional cost of combat...
While I’m sure there are plenty of people who are more than happy to see Cube’s “gangsta” persona laid to rest, I lament the loss of a uniquely defiant American voice...
...complaints with him. Only as they continue talking does Ghosh begin to realize that the man is, in fact, an epidemiologist, and has lost his wife, his daughter, the whole careful life he has built up, in the tragedy. The loudness, Ghosh comes to recognize, is only a lament for what words cannot convey...
...both witness and victim. Though he has a doctorate from Oxford, lives in New York and teaches at Harvard, Ghosh was born in India, and grew up in Bangladesh, before moving to Egypt for two years in later life. Where another writer with his formal standing might simply lament the chaos that broke out across Asia after the tsunami, or the aftermath of genocide in Cambodia, Ghosh writes from within the chaos, involved...
...Languages and Cultures department is notably prejudiced, and where the establishment of the Edward Said Chair of Arab Studies was steeped in allegations of everything from furtive donors to unscholarly candidates to unfair methods. This is not to assert the principle that professors should not be activists, but to lament a situation where an entire department falls into the uniformity of a similar worldview. For then students lose out from not being exposed to a proper diversity of perspectives. Columbia has been nicknamed the “Bir-Zeit on the Hudson,” after the Palestinian educational institution...