This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
My kids have moved more in their twenties you know than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost and that is a sense of community.
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior sensitive soul.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor it is rather to be rejoiced in than lamented that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
There is no harm in patience and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God and your sorrow will be lessened.