Two middle-age writers dressed in shabby black clothes were lamenting the public's indifference to their existential insights.

Yet the same writer lamented that some of the first students 'in many cases alienated the more thoughtful minds from the denomination'.

The piece as a whole takes its cue from a text by Tolstoy in which the Russian writer laments his separation from "a very dear friend."

The writer laments about all the negative aspects of the playground, but misses the beneficial points of city playgrounds entirely.

When the writer of Ecclesiastes lamented that there was nothing new under the sun, he clearly hadn't been reading the papers.

The writer lamented that despite China's rise, she still languished third from last in world rankings in terms of respect for human rights.

One fails to understand whether the writer is applauding the victory of the hero or lamenting the defeat of his rival?

Indeed, in the last few years, writers in this book review have lamented the decline of slice-of-life realism, pronouncing it dead at least once.

Some writers specifically lamented the failure to elect particular candidates.

The writers also lamented that their esteemed colleague was being held as much responsible for the incidents as the two post-doctoral students.