Examples of lamentation

• However, there are much more elaborate practices involving prayers and lamentations which are popularly followed.

• The bride sings lamentations and struggles as she is borne off.

• In contrast, self-command is identified with "manhood and firmness", while the "useless outcries" of men who fail to show this virtue are "womanish lamentations" (244).

• This purism is also characterized by a constant lamentation that standards are falling.

• Hence, there is a lingering, deep melancholy about the work, which does not achieve any catharsis but uses its dark instrumentation and frequent dying falls to reflect an inconsolable lamentation.

• Bernier's lamentations are for soprano solo with cello and organ.

• There has been nothing but one howl of lamentation that we could not afford to spend money to put our own folk on the soil.

• To my mind, the position of the tourist in this country deserves lamentation and tears.