Many critics of the argument have lamented the sort of hyper-rationalism of the project.
If chiefs told many stories, colonial officials alternated between portraying custom as fixed and timeless and lamenting its vagaries and elusiveness.
One textbook laments that writers do not follow advice against the passive because they do not understand the concept of voice.
Another manager in a bottling company lamented that poor wages caused workers to resign at a rate of 40 per cent annually.
The first priority of the government was not the well-being of its subjects, he laments.
They lamented the demise of baroque bel canto and of the castrato's voice.
Scenes like these consolidated a conventional association between laments and the feminine voice.
They lamented lack of time for research and fieldwork.
