Words similar to lament

Example sentences for: lament

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Maren reports the lament of his friend Chris Cassidy, a CARE worker who nearly went mad trying to teach Somali refugees to adopt irrigated cash-crop farming: "How the hell am I going to convince these people to get out there and dig if they get more food than they can eat free from CARE?"
It's the classic invitation of the memoirist, the ploy that teams reader and writer against the world, and it's also the classic lament of the barroom, which is where Exley's painful story opens.
Talk to a Democratic pollster or consultant these days, and you're likely to hear a lament about the shortage of politically potent ideas.
They lament a glut of Quentin Tarantino knockoffs and speculate that the ski-vacation atmosphere intoxicates the judges.
The '70s megastar's first album of new songs in nine years is deemed melancholic and sluggish, "like it has been injected with a tranquilizer" (David Browne, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics lament that his guitar playing includes none of his signature virtuoso licks.