Example sentences for: bemoan

How can you use “bemoan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some critics bemoan Starship 's grotesque violence and glorification of a "happily fascist world" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Others consider it a witty sendup of action movies, with fabulous special effects and campy characters: "a cheerfully lobotomized, always watchable experience" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (See the official Starship Troopers site.)

  • When Elliott eagerly dons his hair shirt to bemoan Big Pharma, he finds so much sin to revel in that he forgets to give a reason, any reason, why enhancement is, in itself, immoral.

  • Critics will bemoan the decrease in number of competitors in the market (which could undercut the diversity of music produced), but the paper suggests that such criticism might be offset by the acceleration of online access to music.

  • The weekly book reviews like such highbrow biographies as Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf (the New York Times Book Review ) and Jorge Castañeda's Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). Other reviewers fill their lists with celebrity memoirs, especially Mia Farrow's What Falls Away --a trend some critics bemoan.

  • Other writers call Clinton "more Nero than hero," compare him to ineffectual 19 th century President Grover Cleveland, and bemoan his inability to carry through promises about health care, race, education, and job training.


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