keenverbliterary

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sadness and regret
aw
be/weigh on your conscienceidiom
bitter
black dog
breastbeating
cry
doom and gloom
feel badidiom
gloominess
glumness
groan
guilt
prick
prick someone's conscienceidiom
regretful
regretfully
remorse
repentant
wrench
wretchedness

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Remembering people who have died

Examples of lamenting

lamenting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

But we do not hear judges lamenting how the formal law restricted them from acting to help families.
Every production featured a lamenting woman whose fate elicited tears from female audience members.
The live presence of the ingrates and, in particular, the lamenting soul, renders the love object palpably present.
It may wonder why so many care staff remain working in such difficult circumstances for so long, instead of lamenting the high turnover of staff.
He was lamenting and wandering around in a distressed and stunned state.
I laughed amid lamenting, sported amid my weeping.
Several works in the programme are associated with bereavement or remembrance, and their lamenting tugs with an aching authenticity.
If the semitone figure is stereotypical in its depiction of a lamenting sigh, then the scale spanning a tritone serves as the archetypal musical marker of the diabolical.
These writers are representative of a wide discussion of the perceivedly parlous state of church psalmody and sight singing but, despite much lamenting, few specific solutions were offered.
Babbitt was lamenting how the 'general public is largely unaware and uninterested in' contemporary music.
Medora does not suppress her feelings: she spends her time lamenting in a tower, waiting for her lover to return.
Reflecting on a flute sound ' devoid of expression', he contemplates the possibility that the flutist, unlike the lamenting clarinettist, or the soulful violinist, routinely plays dead.
A lamenting theme for keening oboes framed more flowing material, where a dream-like atmosphere was occasionally interrupted by the intervention of a 'garden gate' type bell.
With a lamenting voice, they tell a story full of painful, sudden reversals of fortune, and if one didn't interrupt them, it would seem that their story would never end.
Lewy's lamenting of missing originals would be a concern of any objective scholar.
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