| Highly effective as a literary dirge and lamentation, it comes up short when judged by the standards of the history discipline. |
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| His skald, Thorkell, wrote a telling lamentation for his dead master, which given the foolishness of his actions does not seem truly deserved. |
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| English's Germanic cousins are more vivid: German calls it Karfreitag, from an old German root chara, meaning lamentation. |
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| Mr Scruton, a man prone to bouts of lamentation, has produced a delightfully short chronicle of the church's decline. |
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| In other words, it is much better to have defiant, life-affirming laughter than tears and lamentation. |
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| It is also a lamentation for a modern Algeria gripped by pious fundamentalism. |
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| The husband or wife chants a song of praise and lamentation. |
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| Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing. |
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| But not lamentations in the sense of tombs of the period, rather lamentation on the loss of meaning in art, a reflection on art itself. |
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| The drama opens with Boni's lamentation about the struggles of life in Bonikope. |
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| But even as this book celebrates these women and their work, it is also a lamentation for a life on its way out. |
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| Through the dark, cold winter, the walls on Muhammad Mahmoud erupted into huge images of celebration, lamentation, and commentary. |
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| American novelists have done their bit to swell the chorus of lamentation. |
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| The whole world will eventually be in disorder, and the sound of lamentation will be heard everywhere. |
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| An analysis of the situation must not, therefore, be based on ethnographic conclusions, and even less on humanitarian lamentation, but on geopolitical factors. |
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| Yet in its immediate aftermath, calamity more often inspires inarticulate lamentation even in a bestselling author with a distinctive voice and the best of intentions. |
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| In a sense the Gesänge are for all of them, and for everyone: a private lamentation for the tragedy at the heart of everyday life, in whose coils we are all enmeshed. |
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| The guerrillas have repeatedly outwitted it in the past 12 months, and lamentation that it needs more men and more weapons cannot explain that away. |
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| Elliptical and often exhortative like actual laments, these fragments were presented as transcripts or stylistic recreations of actual lamentation performed by the bereaved. |
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