"Lamentation" means expressing deep sadness, grief, or sorrow, often through crying, wailing, or mourning.
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Will it be a true exposé of the social ills affecting the community concerned, or just a rambling
lamentation of how the world could be better?
It was also the best online collection of
lamentations over Sega's / Sonic the Hedgehog's fate, cheeky Sony - bashing, photos of spirals resembling the Dreamcast logo, and lewd artwork of Cream the Rabbit in uncompromising positions.
Similarly,
in Lamentations Jeremiah bemoans the destruction of Jerusalem, saying: «The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning» (Lam.
While a mention of their moniker ushers in melancholic nostalgia, there's also a bit of
lamentation for all the input devices lost to the later stages of Shadow of the Beast, Assault Rigs, G - Police.
It contained a dose of
lamentation about the state of things, both general: «reform plans generally end up gathering dust on library shelves.»
The lack of sleep, the mess and damage inflicted by those razor sharp puppy teeth fades quickly from their minds once the puppy grows up and I often
hear lamentations about the work of having a new puppy.
In Shrouds - Całuny (2012), Weiss filmed, from an airplane, local women performing silent gestures of
lamentation on the abandoned, forgotten site of the former concentration camp Gruenberg, located in Zielona Góra.
The audience goes wild
with lamentations and shrieks, the more sober confining themselves to shedding silent tears — for weeping is considered to be a meritorious act.
There is in general an undertone of
lamentation when people speak of manipulation which points to idealistic expectations — as if the class enemy had ever stuck to the promises of fair play it occasionally utters.
Tuface has struck a good cord around which to anchor his protests given the
loud lamentations by Nigerians that «this is not the change we voted for.»
FAITH has always had a forward - looking message and has never seen itself as part of that chorus of
lamentation so dominant in the immediate post-Vatican II years.
The nation has commissioned studies, held conferences and engaged in endless
public lamentation over how to get poor students and children of color to achieve at the level of wealthy white students — as if how to close this opportunity gap was a mystery.
Contrary to initial reactions from many, though, this shouldn't be cause for
lamentation as where it counts the iPhone 4S is up there with the best.
Now the people lived in the land of the dreaded enemy, reciting litanies of
lamentation while ghouls...
Still do these «anti-religious» and sociologic Barbarists and culturally clothed Paganists of heathens»
lamentations ridicule and dismember themselves in rude plagerisms of malnourihed discontentments unbeoming a Ritheous Atheist's Garnishment or RAG for shortness sakes.
prophetic visions... consider my sorrow like that of the prophet Jeremiah who
wrote Lamentations.
His comments on the matter followed President Nana Akufo - Addo
recent lamentation over the «huge debts» and «empty coffers» his...
The exhibition also includes a recurring live performance entitled 3 -2-1 (2011/16), in which saxophonist André Vida improvises alongside musician Jemeel Moondoc's
recorded lamentation in Long Sorrow, expanding on the dynamics of free jazz in a duet that changes with each recital.
Part lamentation and part a celebration of the silvery, baroque chemistry that brought photography into the world, Rossiter's poetic images possesses the lucidity of Julia Cameron and the stunning simplicity of Daguerre.
It is a
common lamentation (and a media favourite) to bemoan the passing of large Canadian companies into the hands of foreign owners.
Lamentations usually follows on how the sales organization does not make use of this content, which is filtered through an API from marketing automation to sales automation.
The contrast to his
earlier lamentation could not be clearer: God is stronger than death; Sheol could not contain the man so deeply favored by God.
After several generations of seemingly
fruitless lamentations, the firm evidence from across the Western world is that the religious instruction of the young, and the not so young, is improving.
Lamentations expresses the sadness of this experience by describing a bereft Jerusalem: «She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her» (1:2).
Even newfound practices of sustainability and restoration of ravaged lands border on cheap grace, helping us too easily to forget our past sins and too readily easing our
needed lamentation.
So you claim Maccabees, Enoch, Jubilees, Psalms 152 - 155, the Prayer of Solomon, Ascension of Isaiah, Baruch,
Ethiopic Lamentations and many more to be complete modern fabrications that were never included by early Christians or Jews in their early canons thus making the current version the only true version that has ever actually existed?
Over time, I may forget the details of this dream, or vision; but one thing I'll never forget is the anguish, wailing, and heart -
rending lamentations of those who had to remain here.
Regardless of the bleak condition of the flock, Jesus hangs a clanging bell around the neck of the blackest sheep in the darkest pit, a bell powered by their
own lamentations.
Every new document that comes to light after decades revives the
undignified lamentations, the hatred and scorn, instead of allowing the war at its end to be buried, at least morally.»
One last piece of background material to this parable is the saying in
Midrash Lamentations Rabbah 4.2: «None of them (men of Jerusalem) would attend a banquet unless he was invited twice.»
But silence is most frequently called upon in Rodrigues»
personal lamentations to God, during which he wonders why God remains silent in the suffering of His people.
Tales of Mary as a military general were slowly replaced with her extended Good
Friday lamentations.
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