It is an old lament that sports have been overcommercialized and contaminated by television and all the financial tentacles that grow from it.

For Broadway, Hollywood and the music world, the new guides could lend statistical proof to the old lament that the public appreciates some work far more than the critics do.

It was the old lament.

Let us play my old lament for the Tir na n-Og; I too am mighty low, and it will serve as a counter-irritant.

The tones of her voice brought out the poignant and immortal beauty and pathos of that wonderful old lament.

(33) There follows and excellent example of an old French lament for the dead.

I know how easily this might sound like middle-aged bad temper, and the old lament that they did things better, or faster, once upon a time.

So I sang one of those old laments I had learned at home in Troizen.

The struggle of talented designers is an old lament.

Analysts attributed much of the selling to the flow of poor fourth-quarter corporate profits, as well to the older lament that the Federal Reserve was keeping interest rates too high.