His is a beautifully written lament for a different age, and idea, of France.
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And there was little lament for the passing of the presidency of Obama's controversial predecessor, President George W. Bush.
Many will have been moved by Marie Fatayi-Williams's impassioned lament for her son Anthony, feared dead in the bus blast last Thursday.
Willie Rennie, of the Liberal Democrats, fared rather better with a "why oh why" lament about plans for a single police force.
As for the lament that Pope Francis is merely another Catholic who believes in Catholic dogma, what do you expect?
In the context of the current US Presidential contest, I have heard many lament opportunities, particularly for the President but also for Governor Romney, to not call their opponent on core values.
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In addition, during this time, we started to hear more and more hawkish commentary coming out of the Fed as folks like Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher began to publicly lament about the prospects for inflation.
But if Obama embraces the soft presidential power strategy that was employed by FDR, Reagan and other successful presidents, he will find himself in a much stronger position than Bush and might very well be able to rescue this nation and build the long-term majority that so many Democrats are hoping for and so many Republicans lament having failed to achieve.
It is not for nothing that Leila Trabelsi has come to symbolize for the Tunisian protesters everything that Marie-Antoinette did for the sans-culottes, and that it is sympathy for her and her family that colors the lament from French allies of the regime.
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Clients often lament that if they only knew what was coming they could plan for it, anticipate it, and, well, control it.
If you think Beaker, for example, is a garbage Muppet, you won't lament his mostly missing meeping, while if you're a purist, you'll cringe at every appearance of shrimp-come-lately Pepe.
BlackBerry diehards will lament the lack of a physical keyboard they'll have to wait for the Q10, a model in the more traditional BlackBerry form.
They may need that deaf ear for their own constituents in the coming days as senior citizens and their advocates lament the second consecutive annual denial of a social security cost-of-living increase.
Take, for example, the so-called Augusta effect, which course superintendents around the world lament.
And there is a somewhat moist-eyed account of a peace symposium convened by the conductor Daniel Barenboim that called for more European mediation a call in which one cannot help but hear a subconscious lament by the eminent and worldly participants that Jerusalem and Damascus were not more like Vienna and Paris in the first place.
Being in a 2-2 series isn't the right time for Heat panic over now being in what amounts to a best-of-three, or Heat lament over anything that isn't going their way, Spoelstra said.
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