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"lamentation" Definitions
  1. an expression of feeling very sad or disappointed

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The Lamentation of the Fiery Furnace, Or of the Passage.
Take this lamentation on the state of the middle class.
I've lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend.
But there is also a lamentation in this nude figure.
Not even a moment of lamentation for vanishing traditions is possible.
In the scrap for lamentation, everyone wants to be top dog.
In place of some kind of discovery there is mostly lamentation.
What made you think of casting Carla Körbes in Martha Graham's "Lamentation"?
The company's tanking stock price has also been a continuous source of lamentation.
And there is hope, as well as lamentation, in its sweet, sad sound.
Paradoxically, that piece registered less as a work of lamentation than of affirmation.
His lone nod to process was the standard lamentation against money in politics.
We were in the midst of lamentation when we could hear cheering outside.
Instead, it's a lamentation of the decline of religious values in American life.
" It's an attempt at an intervention and a lamentation: "Stop fueling fires of hate.
His reflection aboard the battleship is a pained lamentation of what might have been.
It's an iconic American song, but a sad one; a lamentation, not a celebration.
It's a lamentation of a lost opportunity to move the court in a progressive direction.
Alban Berg's Violin Concerto , composed in 1935, follows a trajectory of crisis, lamentation, and dissolution.
"It's not that we're trying to make 'Lamentation' better, by any means," Ms. Eilber said.
" — Elizabeth Bursick "Our most popular dances are Prince William, Irish Lamentation and Mr. Beveridge's Maggot.
Such lamentation belies the fact that modern postural yoga is a creature of fabrication and reinvention.
Her response was to burst into public howls of rage and lamentation, worthy of a Greek tragedy.
Their mood of mingled anger and sorrow sharpened into lamentation after the sudden death of her husband.
Graham's "Lamentation," from 1930, was reimagined using archival imagery of the solo projected onto a moving dancer.
The lamentation of abortion is real yet there is a desperate need for women's health and issues reform.
"Our Beloved" complements this message with war-film clichés—comradeship between privates and fatherly officers, lamentation for fallen comrades.
To have her also do "Lamentation" — the idea of interpretation through the same magnificent dancer really appealed to me.
Graham classics include "Chronicle" (1936), "Appalachian Spring" (1944), "Cave of the Heart" (1946), "Lamentation" (1930) and "Night Journey" (1947).
Graham classics include "Chronicle" (1936), "Appalachian Spring" (1944), "Cave of the Heart" (1946), "Lamentation" (8113) and "Night Journey" (1947).
She reads in a low-pitched, deceptively neutral voice that inflects ostensible objectivity with the slightest whisper of lamentation.
What it means for investors So, what does this litany of lamentation mean for investors in the companies involved?
There are chants of deep lamentation, interlaced with quietly confident declarations that mortality has been conquered and life will prevail.
In short, Dixon has joined the movie's lamentation gang, headed by Mildred, and this is his choleric way of coping.
There are clip-clop ole West numbers, solemn hymns of uplift and lamentation and sardonic Brechtian ditties of social evil.
My final tip is more of a lamentation: It turns out the Cuban government owns most street food operations in Havana.
The cause was ovarian cancer, said her brother, William L. Fortune Jr. Her rescue of "Lamentation With Saints" was especially fortunate.
Readers obligingly helped round out the list by suggesting some of their own favorite songs of provocation — and, in some cases, lamentation.
"In the City of Killing" compacts in its lines a discourse of national grief and prophetic wrath, a lamentation and a jeremiad.
He's in peak lamentation form on "Last Name," bemoaning women trying to corner him and violence that lurks just around the corner.
When I heard the news, I thought back to that shimmering juggernaut of sound—a lamentation and celebration before the fact. ♦
Or, alternately, a figure for zero — as in Milton's phrase "to turne the O of thir insignificance into a lamentation with the people"?
Opinion Columnist Saudi Arabia's apparent torture, murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi has been met in some quarters with more lamentation than outrage.
And the best music of the era struck notes not only of strident patriotism but of lamentation about the human cost of war.
"Lamentation" is an anguished setting of a Hebrew text from the Book of Lamentations, here sung plaintively by the mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke.
He had originally envisioned the final moment of "Ode," a poetic lamentation about the effects of gun violence, to be an empty stage.
Maybe Anthony doesn't endure all the losing and lamentation of the last three years because Phil Jackson never happens in the first place.
The evening will also include live performances of two Graham solos, "Lamentation" and "Deep Song," danced by PeiJu Chien-Pott and Blakeley White-McGuire.
When two or more people gather in the year of our Lord 2019, lamentation will be the center of some portion of the hangout.
Michael Takeo Magruder's "Lamentation for the Forsaken" at Christ Church Cranbrook creates a resonance between the suffering of Christ and that of Syrian refugees.
Over the years, Ms. Eilber has invited contemporary choreographers to create "Lamentation Variations" as a way to expand on and explore the solo's breadth.
"Lamentation for the Forsaken" will remain on display in the Chapel of the Resurrection at Christ Church Cranbrook (470 Church Road Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) indefinitely.
And through all of this a lamentation, sometimes just a few hints of it, is heard or seen — barely perhaps, but it is still there.
In 2010, Charles Murray published "Coming Apart," a lamentation on the decline among poor whites of religiosity, of the work ethic, and of family values.
LONDON — The British Museum's Inspired by the East: How the Islamic World Influenced Western Art begins with a lamentation about Frederick Arthur Bridgman (21-23).
Expect the canyons of Broadway to echo with shouts and screams this spring — and moaning and groaning and lamentation of an exceptional amplitude and ferocity.
Save for the occasional lamentation after a weak showing in a sports tournament, and the odd pop-culture phenomenon, little serious talk of reunion is heard.
"Art as Ritual: A Conference on Lamentation in Contemporary Performance and Practice" took place at the Detroit Institute of Arts (5200 Woodward Avenue) on September 12.
These poems play with different registers, but they return to lamentation, to annihilating grief for "all the black people I'm tired of losing," one narrator says.
That the land of "A" seems as timeless and enduringly relevant as that in a fable by Aesop or La Fontaine may be cause for lamentation.
Also called "No Time to Die," the song fits right into the Billie Eilish oeuvre: It's a melancholic, whispery lamentation of the end to a relationship.
She'll perform three short works, including Martha Graham's famous solo "Lamentation" and George Balanchine's "Élégie," at Vail Dance Festival: ReMix at City Center, beginning on Thursday.
The ambiguity of the images, simultaneously tending toward the celebration and lamentation of the melting of the ice caps, probes whether critical distance is a fiction.
Austerity has lopped 2125 percent from his council's budget, yielding increased fees for trash and recycling, cuts to public sports centers and a surplus of lamentation.
Modern choreographers are invited to make their variations on the theme of Graham's 1930 solo "Lamentation"; Tuesday brought ones by Bulareyaung Pagarlava, Sonya Tayeh and Larry Keigwin.
This is "Lamentation for the Forsaken," a 2016 work by Michael Takeo Magruder, which has come, perhaps unexpectedly, to find a place here at Christ Church Cranbrook.
A common lamentation online, one that spans the political divide and is forwarded by politicians and editorial boards alike, is that civility in American politics has died.
In an age of lamentation over economic injustice, and with political movements on the march decrying immigrants as threats, weaker growth is likely to spur more conflict.
" And sometimes he would slip into lamentation: "The streets raised me crazy, now I'm immune to it / So when they start shooting, we don't stop the music.
It is undeniable, looking at the key examples in the "Lamentation" and "Raising of Lazarus," that there is little to distinguish del Piombo as a key Renaissance presence.
Full of blame and bloodshed, Euripides' "The Trojan Women" is a lamentation of war from 415 B.C., when Athens was engaging in one devastating military conflict after another.
The "Lamentation" dates to about 1515, and the "Resurrection" to 1520-1524, by which time the vogue for terra-cotta sculpture was ending, though with a stirring denouement.
And though their characters have just endured the destruction of their civilization and the slaughter of most of their families, voices are seldom raised in agony or lamentation.
Mr. Reed writes in an utterly idiosyncratic pastiche of styles and genres — part confession, part jeremiad, part lamentation, part picaresque novel (reminiscent, at times, of Dickens and Defoe).
The painting, "Martha Graham — Lamentation" (2100), completes the set of three that occupies, just as with the other eleven artists, Godwin's semi-private area within the larger exhibition.
Tip ''You must have visible tears,'' says James M. Wilce, an anthropology professor at Northern Arizona University who studies lamentation, or what he calls ''melodic wailing'' with words.
Saying she had lost her voice "in screaming and lamentation" that same weekend, she went on to decry President Donald Trump for mocking a disabled reporter in 2015.
This is not a highbrow lamentation of one-note frostings or a judgement of anyone for whom consuming the simplest iteration of fat and sugar is peak dessert experience.
"Small Things" is a pop punk elegy of sorts—a lamentation of a fractured relationship; wanting someone, not being able to have that person there; and confronting one's emotions.
With a voice hoarse from a week of lamentation (she had attended the funeral of her friend, Carrie Fisher), Streep used her time to speak powerfully to the moment.
For that matter, his lamentation about America's decline and his pledge to restore its conservative values bear striking similarities to the rhetoric of the last Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.
John may or may not be in love with an aspiring poet named Elodie, who writes about owls, and whose name rhymes with "threnody" — a lamentation to the dead.
To mourn is to have an attunement with one's feelings and perhaps to overanalyze these sensations on an intellectual level takes away from the raw, emotional aspect of lamentation.
When the match concluded, the broadcast wasted no time with the customary commentary and cut going immediately to live coverage of a mournful lamentation in the city of Zanjan.
Yet at a moment when you might have expected the air of Rhinebeck to be rent with cries of lamentation worthy of Sophocles, Nelson has cannily turned down the volume.
Magruder is quick to emphasize that his practice is not in any way a religious endeavor — even with artworks like "Lamentation for the Forsaken" that explicitly reference a Christian narrative.
Russia's fear of invasion from the West probably originated in the 1200s and is captured in the lamentation, "for our sins, unknown tribes [Mongols] came" in The Chronicle of Novgorod.
That was the kind of lamentation fans of Denton, Texas epic rockers Lift To Experience, uh, experienced when they dropped their marathon debut album, The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, in 153.
One of his most famous works is the 1960 composition "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima," a wailing, discordant lamentation dedicated to the victims of World War II's atomic bombing.
Titus began his opinion with an unusual lamentation of the partisan nature of politics in this country, criticizing Congress and the administrations' inaction on a permanent solution for DACA participants.
The Vatican museums have loaned the Gallery a 1975 plaster cast of Michelangelo's "Pietà" of 1497–1500, shown opposite del Piombo's Pietà, or "Lamentation over the Dead Christ" (c. 1514–16).
But "Lamentation" is a solo that few in today's audiences have seen live, and it's travestied by the film we're shown, which shows multiple close-ups of Graham in various details.
FROM the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the Russian Arctic, millions of Orthodox Christians have been celebrating Easter this weekend, in a passionate cycle of lamentation, anticipation and candle-lit jubilation.
In the blue-collar reaches of northern England, in places like Liverpool, modern history tends to be told in the cadence of lamentation, as the story of one indignity after another.
This is postapocalyptic fiction, a genre that, for all its lamentation over the loss of the world we live in now, often runs on a current of nostalgia for an earlier age.
As for "Lamentation," the piece feels right at home in the Chapel of the Resurrection — inspired, as it is, to create a resonance between the suffering of Christ and that of Syrian refugees.
Group stage moaning seems to happen every two years: if it's not lamentation over the lack of goals or getting worked up about vuvuzelas, it's inconsequential mutterings about the aerodynamics of the Jabulani.
He argued that investors "should've started [their] lamentation 20 years ago" given its weakness, which was only exacerbated when Toys R Us went private in 2005 and tacked on $7.5 billion in debt.
He argued that investors "should've started [their] lamentation 20 years ago" given its weakness, which was only exacerbated when Toys R Us went private in 2005 and tacked on $8003 billion in debt.
Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna painted "Lamentation over the Dead Christ" (1470–1474) a few decades before the German-Swiss artist and positioned the crying figures at the edge — they're proxies for our mourning.
Some interpreters of Lady Capulets hint, absurdly, that she's having an incestuous affair with her nephew Tybalt; but when he dies, they make her lamentation an affair of mere show rather than tribal grief.
" Heizer, who is given to playful lamentation, complains about what New York is turning him into: "A decaffeinated, used-up, once-was quick-draw cowboy, a sissy boy who eats at Balthazar for lunch.
" Some of his dances took on a dark political edge, as in "Three Atmospheric Studies," in 2005, with its allusions to the Iraq War and to Lucas Cranach 's painting "Lamentation Beneath the Cross.
In a poignant essay following the announcement of Che's death, John Berger likened its composition to Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" (23000) and to Mantegna's "The Lamentation of Christ" (ca. 204510).
Other critics have expertly laid out arguments for the show — and especially its spinoff film, 1992's Fire Walk With Me — as an elegy for Laura and a lamentation for everything wasted by her murder.
"The Ferryman" is a celebration of the human — and classically Irish — urge to give life shape through narrative, and a lamentation for those who find themselves trapped in myths that assume the inevitability of fate.
Jill Abramson's new book, Merchants of Truth, is a lot of things — a paean to print journalism, a commentary on the digital revolution in news, and a lamentation for what she considers declining journalistic standards.
Gray holds court with a nebbishy, self-mocking churn of anecdote and lamentation, and his humor, in the outer-borough Ashkenazi style, can leave one unsure where the shtick ends and the real self-loathing starts.
The passion for teddy bears is an early twentieth-century craze that Ydessa Hendeles, who is from Canada, catches beautifully and thoroughly in this exhibition, at once a joyful celebration, a historical gathering, and a wistful lamentation.
The result was a kind of lyric lamentation on the transient beauties of emotion, friendship and nature, and a call to turn attention toward those things, and away from the demands of professional ambition and civic life.
But in a period of full-spectrum decline and a broader, slouching cultural obesity, the rhetorical performance of elevated political lamentation feels, well, not at all like a solution, for one, and even almost something like the problem.
Hayes revisits lifelong obsessions — the cage of masculinity, the gulf between fathers and sons — and plays with different registers, returning to lamentation, to annihilating grief for "all the black people I'm tired of losing," as one narrator says.
Other highlights include a new piece by Matthew Neenan to music by Bernstein, and a new work, "Lamentation Variation," by the jookin' artist Lil Buck for the Martha Graham Dance Company — his first commission from a major company.
It's a melodic lamentation of his life of crime, what he regrets losing as a result of it, and how he's implementing the lessons he learned in those times to provide a better life for his family and him.
Ms. Zall was even given permission to perform the famous 1930 Graham solo "Lamentation," in which the dancer expresses her grief through anguished movements magnified by a cloaklike costume — a rare occurrence for a dancer not in the company.
"Today, we call on the Catholic Bishops of the United States to prayerfully and genuinely consider submitting to Pope Francis their collective resignation as a public act of repentance and lamentation before God and God's People," the petition said.
Written by Jay Torrence, directed by Halena Kays and enacted by a hapless group of clowns apologetic for having survived the fire, it is a ritual of lamentation and persistence that cuts right through the sugariness of the season.
If this isn't exciting enough, on the back of the "Lamentation" panel are sketches the National posits as studies consistent with designs in the Sistine Chapel; suggesting Michelangelo used this panel to sketch out designs and ideas eventually used there.
Given that context, I felt that "Lamentation for the Forsaken" was a work that needed to be produced, because if I "got it right" then perhaps I could encourage reflection and dialogue that would engender some small amount of positive change.
After reading The Social Contract's commitment to modern freedom and equality, a fellow Enlightenment thinker, Immanuel Kant, early saw that Rousseau's main impulses between a lamentation for modernity and an emancipatory program for it have to be reconciled at all costs.
America's streets are filled with cries of "black lives matter," and America continues to insist through its actions in these cases that they don't, that that is a lamentation of hopeful ideals rather than a recitation of a national reality.
When Ms. Garrison begins "Serenade" seated — legs apart, and moving her upper body in changing gestures — you can feel traces of Martha Graham's celebrated "Lamentation" (1930), which remains radical in the way it is a dance performed almost entirely while seated.
Although we cannot know his tone, when Dr. Alexander Eastman said to the New York Times, "Border Patrol is a law enforcement agency…not a humanitarian agency,"we might hope that as a doctor his words came out as a lamentation.
The jump from those 1926 items to the advanced sculptural Modernism of "Heretic" (a dance for a soloist at odds with an ensemble) and the 1930 "Lamentation" (a celebrated solo) is startling, though Monday's audience wasn't encouraged to notice this.
Inspired by a lamentation for the Mesopotamian city of the same name found on an ancient Sumerian tablet (currently at the Louvre), Mr. Bassam's play hopscotches through time, from 193 B.C. to A.D. 2035 in what is now Mosul, Iraq.
All those shows and more have come with great fanfare and gone to great lamentation in the last 15 years, while Trailer Park Boys, left out of the history blogs, has remained, quietly watching the style it helped pioneer revolutionize TV comedy.
The exhibition includes a 1975 plaster cast of Michelangelo's Pietà (which will never leave St Peters Basilica in Rome) to demonstrate a cross-pollination of visual motifs: most specifically, the adaptation of the Pietà's pose by Sebastiano in his nearby "Lamentation" (1516).
It is the place where the glories of King Solomon and the defiance of the Maccabees came to life, among whose columns Jesus walked and preached, a site housing spectacles of great joy but also, on the occasions of its destruction, inconsolable lamentation.
The aching dissonances of its opening lamentation and the peculiar instrumental elaborations in the closing chorale leave a mood of overhanging gloom, as if casting doubt on the notion that contemporary Christian sinners can escape the fate meted out to the Jews.
The authorities were forced to raise the volume on the loudspeakers playing lamentation songs after some in the crowds took up cries of "Oh, Hussein, Mir Hussein," a reference to a former presidential candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, who has been under house arrest since 2011.
Occasionally news of Christina trickles back to us: she waters with her tears the places where men are accustomed to sin; she goes to the gallows and suspends herself among thieves; she enters the graves of dead men and there makes lamentation for the sins of men.
Unavoidably, the climate of fear which feels as though it currently has the Western world in a chokehold was a big topic of onstage conversation last night, but the band's "fuck you" attitude meant that it was a source of laughs rather than lamentation or self-pity.
"As a brand, the Canadiens trade a lot on their glory years, and the glory years were French," said Jean-Pierre Dupuis, a management professor who last year wrote a 168-page lamentation of the loss of the team's French Canadian "chemistry," which once claimed so many Stanley Cups.
Thanks to the frisky telling of the tale, nothing is harped upon or mooned over, and the one person who breaks that rule—Julia's father, Phil (Chris Cooper), a founding partner at the firm that employs Davis—appears to be moving slowly, in a slough of lamentation, through a different movie altogether.
In 2019, it scans as a lamentation for lost dreams: Deafheaven formed just a couple years after the 2008 financial crisis, and their music, especially "Dream House," reflects the anxiety and uncertainty that would follow young Americans through this decade, a generation for whom a stable future, much less home ownership, still feels mostly out of reach.
Three series resulting from her ongoing exploration are displayed in her solo exhibition, A Lamentation of Threads and Pins, at the Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, located in Wadi Ara within the Green Line (the Armistice, or pre-1967, border drawn in 1949 demarcating the de facto borders of the state of Israel after the war).
The emphasis on shared responsibility and the fear of the Other might feel like a call-and-response to the Western world, but The Square isn't just a Trump screed or an anti-Brexit lamentation: In 2008, Sweden approved the opening of its first gated community, proving that even the most infamously egalitarian society was not beyond the pale of fear.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads DETROIT — You know, I didn't really want to be at "Art as Ritual: A Conference on Lamentation in Contemporary Performance and Practice," organized by writer Taylor Aldridge, rector William Danaher from Christ Church of Cranbrook, and filmmaker Oren Goldenberg, in collaboration with the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) and University of Michigan's Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.
To note just a few examples, Stemp features "Portrait of Luca Pacioli" (1495) by Jacopo de' Barberi for the section "Sacred Geometry"; "Portrait of Andrea Odoni" (1527) by Lorenzo Lotto for the section "Old & New"; and in one of his most brilliant selections, a subsection for "Emotional Extremes" is illustrated by "Lamentation" (ca 1463), a spectacular group of terra-cotta sculptures by Niccolò dell'Arca.
There are indeed opened "closets of rage" in Veronica, including a harrowing passage ("Broken English") where the poem's language breaks down into shards of gasped syllables, recalling Eric Garner's agonized "I can't breathe" before his death at the hands of a police officer in 2014: re / inserting / re /beating / and re- / suffocating / the b-b-b / b-b-b / b-b-b-b / reathing / grieving / bulleted body / on repeat […] "Broken English" is a "Lamentation—a chorale," one part of the book's relentless and uncomfortable focus on the non-white victims of our contemporary police state: "day after day the bodies pile up / — must be friends with the wrong police —"; Veronica is, however, by no means a one-note howl of anguish or grief at what Langston Hughes called the "dream deferred" (to which Hunt nods in one of her section titles), but a subtle and often lyrically melodic meditation on what it means to be Black in a nation where one's neighbors speak "in concealed carry," what it means to be a woman, and what it means to be an American in general.

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