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Example sentences for: lament

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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.
Godzilla held center stage in the "Movies and Television" thread until talk moved to science fiction and Star Trek , Babylon Five , Deep Space Nine , and Dune . One fraygrant's lament, "Why hasn't there been a good movie out in the first five months of 1998?"
But then you chide me that the "painfully obvious answer" to my lament is that these changes won't come "if that kind of restriction violates the First Amendment."
Talk to a Democratic pollster or consultant these days, and you're likely to hear a lament about the shortage of politically potent ideas.
But others lament the absence of the novelist's trademarks--the magical realism, the stylish prose, the irony.