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Example sentences for: woe

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oy not so much a word as an entire vocabulary, as Rosten observes: “can express any emotion, from trivial delight to the blackest woe.”
O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already.
Any more pedantic suggestion being absent, I take the bit between the teeth to suggest that the above word, characterized by the OED as an “onomatopoeic representation of unmeaning chatter,” may well be a jocular rendering of Latin Flebiliter gemens , itself an almost facetious lament meaning something like `Woe is me!
I applaud the New York Times for trying to convey some of that excitement and say woe to you for dipping to such cynicism.
Schnittke is a witty composer, and at certain moments you have the feeling that he is drunkenly singing sardonic songs of woe and contempt.