Sentences with phrase «lamented for»

Some fans flocked to the game, while others avoided it and lamented it for its always online connectivity issues.

The other neat thing Windborne is bringing to the creation genre, something I've lamented for a while, is a story mode with a clear end goal.

Critics and industry insiders alike have lamented for years the decline of modestly budgeted movies aimed at grownups, the sort of film that was once the backbone of Hollywood.

I don't agree, Fergie was lamented for not leaving a young talented team for the next boss to work with.

William Wordsworth lamented for all of us the fading of those alert years when «the heart leaped up» at the sight of a rainbow or when eyes not yet dulled by dissipation could catch the «splendor in the grass».

Just before Question Period this afternoon, Costas Menegakis, the Conservative MP for Richmond Hill, stood in his spot along the back row of the government side and lamented for the NDP's quibbles with a piece of government legislation.

While the New Democrats continue to try to shame Conservative backbenchers — see Olivia Chow's statement on Monday and Niki Ashton's statement on Tuesday — the Conservatives have responded by finding new ways to lament for the prospect of a cap - and - trade system.

Charlie Angus laments for the fact that John Baird continues to take questions directed at Tony Clement.

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

As I prepared for the trip, I decided to pack Nicholas Wolterstorff's Lament for a Son to read on the plane.

Best Reflection: Sarah Bessey with «A Lament for Nigeria» Best Response: Kate Wallace at The Junia Project with «They Say the Church is Feminine»

You are perhaps most widely known for your moving book Lament for a Son, about the death of your son Eric.

Beneath her lament for the lost role of criticism and polemical take on contemporary literary culture (such as it is), Ozick offers something quieter.

35 [1910], p. 161) This was precisely the note of David's lament for his child, «I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.»

Any such lament for Natural Law or its rejection in itself implies an objective order.

Its first chapters set the tone for a work that is both a critique of Israel's past and a lament for the lost Palestinian landscape.

Not even you which is quite bizarre considering you're lamenting me for not concentrating on the issue.

This is an issue that I've been lamenting for a while, and one that I was overjoyed to see Jürgen Klopp address in the summer by buying Mo Salah, who appears to fit exactly the type of player I think Liverpool needed.

I've heard many women replay and replay and replay the birth process in their heads, second - guessing, wishing, crying, lamenting for YEARS!

When he announced in 2001 he was «leaving Parliament to spend more time on politics» it was widely held to be judgement not only on the impoverishment of the British political system, but also a lament for the decline of his beloved Labour Party and the rise of the spin - obsessed forces of New Labour.

I was interested in your editorial extolling the poetic lament for NASA's Kepler satellite (25 May, p 3).

Now, while the drying up of pipelines has become a common lament for the industry, Yancopoulos adds that Regeneron has in development more than 10 therapeutics in the areas of inflammation, metabolism, oncology, ophthalmology, and pain.

Regardless of the possibility that he grins a great deal and could never make you assume that he lost somebody in the past, there's always some part of him that laments for his late significant other.

A female choir intones a lament for the directionless «Orphans of Doom» with yet another theme, before a subdued setting of the Mourning and Steel themes carries «The Awakening» to its bombastic (though slightly abrupt) finale.

A Suitable Girl proves a somber lament for a part of the world still clinging to its restrictive past, at great cost to (particularly) its female population.

Interspersed with reflections on the redemptive power of creation, including a richly textured tribute to Vincent van Gogh (who is played by Martin Scorsese), Akira Kurosawa's Dreams is both a showcase for its maker's artistry at its most unbridled and a deeply personal lament for a world at the mercy of human ignorance.

A Borgesian palimpsest, a movie in search of a genre, a lament for film when it was film, a bittersweet critique of the deadening of moviegoers» sensibilities by their immersion in digital graphics — Leos Carax's barmy Holy Motors is all this and more.

Renowned artist Laurie Anderson delivers a lament for her beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, exploring themes of love, life, death and loss in an impressionistic, deeply personal journey through one woman's life, mind and art.

Director Maria Finitzo focuses on the girls» soccer team — specifically a few star players and the benevolent, paternal coach — but this doesn't feel like a sports movie so much as a lament for America's beleaguered working class.

With Barker's status as one of the most prominent openly gay figures in genre fiction at the back of the mind, that Candyman is something of an elegiac lament for the outcasts and the sexually humiliated only augments its status as one of the best of the end - of - the - eighties / start - of - the - nineties body mortification films.

A celebration of individual spirit, a treatise on the changing nature of human connection and a lament for traditions in danger of being forever lost, Faces Places is funny, insightful and deeply moving.

What strikes me as slightly disingenuous is his lament for serious film criticism.

«RED» allowed a bit of melancholy to slip in amid the action mayhem — laments for losing a step in life embodied even in the late Ernest Borgnine's overgrown eyebrows.

I love the lament for a literary culture that has gone the way of the dodo, where former giants now play unrecognized with blowsy divorcees they picked up at closing time.

This brings to mind a collection of other far - left - leaning pop - films that find our way of life — the concept of the American Dream itself — particularly dubious: Nightcrawler's gaze at death incurred by corporate lingo and unregulated industries, A Most Violent Year's lament for the impossibility of moral management, Foxcatcher's conception of America as a land of slaves and slavemasters, Fury's abject refusal to render Americans the «good guys» even when fighting fascism, the entirety of Inherent Vice.

«Downsizing» begins as a high - concept farce, morphs into a satire of class, consumerism and globalization, and ends with a sincere lament for Third World suffering and the sustainability of the planet.

As he worries about the fates of the soldiers headed into battle on the beaches of France, Churchill laments for boys «too young to know how to be afraid.»

It's actually a lament for another lost American value replaced by digital second - rateness, this time the cherished Kodachrome color film process by which photography used to look 100 times better than it does now.

Based on true events in the resistance against the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the film is so effective at its generic thrills, the suspense and action sequences and quiet moments of melancholy patriotism and laments for lost comrades that form the core of the resistance / war film, everything from For Whom the Bell Tolls to Army of Shadows, that one almost doesn't notice that she's radically revised one of the most masculine of genres into a story about the unbreakability of women.

But if David Lynch obfuscated his lament for Hollywood's lost souls with rabbit - hole dream logic, Refn would have to write in, well, neon letters to be clearer on his big message.

In just a matter of minutes, Wonder Wheel welcomes the audience back in time with beautiful imagery only to be put on hold while Jim Belushi laments for a good five minutes, killing the vibe of the movie.

Not a lament for the failure of a specific ideology, it instead mourns the manner in which all ideology seems to crumble in the face of life, and how it is the destiny of youth to betray themselves with age.

One refrain often heard in discussions of twenty - first - century film culture is a lament for the loss of social film viewing.

The book jacket blurb describes it as «a lament for a generation and the country it failed».

Will Self's lament for the death of the novel earlier this summer has been cast into stark relief by «shocking» new statistics which show that the number of authors able to make a living from their writing has plummeted dramatically over the last eight years, and that the average professional author is now making well below the salary required to achieve the minimum acceptable living standard in the UK.

This is not a lament for how lazy people must be or how stupid existing developers are for not implementing these things already.

But he makes an effort today and says nothing — both about the lasagna and about Anju's question, which is not so much a question as a lament for something she fears has happened already.

Lament for the Living Book 1, The Deluge of Elias, and Hannibal House have all been published on Amazon as the main platform, with Lament for the Living and Hannibal House also being available through the outlets fulfilled by Smashwords (Hannibal House is free through Smashwords).

1) A lament for Bill Miller.

We can lament for him, take his eloquent words of wisdom and be grateful it wasn't us.