But not lamentations in the sense of tombs of the period, rather lamentation on the loss of meaning in art, a reflection on art itself. |
The whole world will eventually be in disorder, and the sound of lamentation will be heard everywhere. |
In other words, it is much better to have defiant, life-affirming laughter than tears and lamentation. |
English's Germanic cousins are more vivid: German calls it Karfreitag, from an old German root chara, meaning lamentation. |
Its walls, while echoing voices of lamentation, reverberate also the shouts of revenge. |
It is also a lamentation for a modern Algeria gripped by pious fundamentalism. |