lamenter

Selig, a lamenter of the highest order, knows he could really do something about it if that were his primary interest.

He was also an indefatigible lamenter of a world that to him had become hopelessly wrapped in clear plastic.

Maurice is a champion lamenter, which is different from saying he's a kvetch .

Towards the end, the lamenter typically curses the lover who has abandoned her (or him), only to repent and beg forgiveness.

A lover of nature and a lamenter of the wrongs inflicted on it, Mr. Alexander paints flowerscapes, animals and the sea, melding an Old Master vocabulary with the emotive, gestural rhetoric of Abstract Expressionism.

John Alexander Marlborough Gallery 40 West 57th Street Manhattan Through Jan. 9 (closed today) A lover of nature and a lamenter of the wrongs inflicted on it, John Alexander has come a distance from the scenes of social allegory he did a decade ago.