Word: mournful
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...they take their leave of Capitol Hill, they cast a fond eye at the past and discern troublesome aspects of the present.The three Senators seem to mourn the loss of the gentlemanly quality of the old days. They are disturbed by the all-importance of money in the political process and dismayed by the impatience of their younger colleagues. Each is proud, somewhat battered but unbowed. In their faces and in their careers is writ the recent history of the nation...
...oldest and most trusted friends phrased it, 'as sane as he had ever been.' " Taylor has always been able to portray the dignity in his characters, particularly when they are in the act of making fools of themselves. It may be ludicrous for a grown man still to mourn a childhood move from one Tennessee city to another, but the author's art evokes sympathy along with laughter...
...forest, in the stream." Fellow Villager Chia David Wambong remembered a warm feeling, as if he were drunk. "Everyone started to cough, and some people vomited blood," he said. "I saw people on the ground screaming. Everyone was crying." When the cloud lifted, there were few survivors to mourn the dead...
...Western invasion, and I cannot stand idly by and watch their destruction," wrote Andre Roosevelt, introducing a book titled--what else?--The Last Paradise. That was in 1930. Fifty years later, thousands of visitors continue to "discover" Bali each year, acclaim it as a paradise and, once home, mourn that it is lost forever...
...lose IRA business but would pick up investment money that might otherwise have gone into tax shelters. Automakers might suffer a bit because car loans would no longer be deductible, but could expect to benefit from the accompanying tax cut that puts more money into consumer pockets. Farmers would mourn the loss of the investment tax credit for buying tractors and other gear, yet would no longer face competition from tax-sheltered agricultural ventures, like cattle-breeding partnerships, that were designed to operate at a loss...