lament for

Example Sentences

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If Park’s film begins as another lament for our layoff-laden modern world, the South Korean director soon introduces a sinister twist.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

And while “Marce Catlett” is in many ways a lament for an “oldfangled” lifestyle that now persists only in stories, it arrives at another of this author’s favorite words.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

It linked to a short film: a 20-minute polemic against the emptiness of modern life, a lament for a vanished world of hierarchies and heroism.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024

He offers a lament for an Indigenous people historically persecuted in their own land.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023

She, being the nearest woman relative, raised a formal lament for the dead of the family.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck