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Example sentences for: lament

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Thanks to Paul Krugman for his lament about credulous reporters who refuse to let facts stand in the way of a good story ("The Legend of Arthur").
The worst part about the sea, as Ramanathan and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography must both lament when it comes time for their annual talent show, is that nothing amusing ever takes place beneath it.
You cannot lament, as Cook does, "America's stingy attitude toward the nation's neglected and rejected people" without asking Eleanor to open up her own books.
But others lament the absence of the novelist's trademarks--the magical realism, the stylish prose, the irony.
How does Houellebecq reconcile his paeans to random sex with his lament over the world it leaves in its wake?