| It is also a lamentation for a modern Algeria gripped by pious fundamentalism. |
| You have no idea what a confusion and lamentation there was all over the State. |
| His skald, Thorkell, wrote a telling lamentation for his dead master, which given the foolishness of his actions does not seem truly deserved. |
| Highly effective as a literary dirge and lamentation, it comes up short when judged by the standards of the history discipline. |
| English's Germanic cousins are more vivid: German calls it Karfreitag, from an old German root chara, meaning lamentation. |
| In other words, it is much better to have defiant, life-affirming laughter than tears and lamentation. |