All 7 Uses of
lament
in
Arrowsmith
- He assembled the class, he lamented that any Winnemac Man could place a pancreas in a banker's hat, and he demanded that the criminal be manly enough to stand up and confess.†
Chpt 3lamented = expressed grief or regret
- "My dear, my little girl!" he lamented.†
Chpt 6 *
- He said goodby, with lamentations and considerable beer; he found a room for Leora nearer to the hospital; and he emerged as Martin L. Arrowsmith, M.D., house physician in the Zenith General Hospital.†
Chpt 10lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- He crawled past her lamentations and the man's sorrow and drove home, empty of heart.†
Chpt 15
- As he turned and turned in his hotel bed he lamented, "And probably the Sondelius lecture will be rotten.†
Chpt 17lamented = expressed grief or regret
- "I should go to bed at midnight," he lamented, "but it is a cardinal sin to interrupt good talk.†
Chpt 17
- Sondelius came to Martin lamenting, "Slim—if I may call you so, like Terry—I think you and your Gottlieb are right.†
Chpt 32lamenting = expressing grief or regret
Definitions:
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(1)
(lament) to express grief or regret
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Although lament typically refers to a feeling or simple vocal expression, it can refer to a vocal expression as complex as a sad song or poem. It can even refer to sad, but non-vocal music -- as when Tennessee Williams references background music in A Streetcar Named Desire.