lament
Listed below are all the posts we have tagged with the term "lament"The Manny Ramirez Story
My wife and I recently screened Cinderella Man, an inspiring biopic about boxing champ, James J. Braddock. Braddock struggled during the Great Depression to keep heat in the apartment and food on the table. At one point, his sick kids were shuttled off to stay with relatives, so they wouldn't shiver to death or starve. [...]
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Life after Lydia
When Julia Deans and her band Fur Patrol jetted out for Melbourne in 2001, they were the toast of our music industry with a number one single, a top-selling album and three Tui awards. A decade on, with the band in hibernation, Deans has again been nominated for the Tuis. She tells Greg Dixon about [...]
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Psalm 26 – LORD, You Know My Heart
Test me, LORD, and try me,examine my heart and my mind,for I have always been mindful of your unfailing loveand have lived in reliance on your faithfulness.Psalm 26:2-3 (NIV). This psalm is a lament of the individual (of David) but with a difference. On this occasion the psalmist is given to protesting his innocence, as [...]
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Psalm 129 – The Enemy Will Not Win
The LORD is righteous;he has cut the cords of the wicked.Psalm 129:4 (NRSV). Many psalms show divisions of thought where the psalmist perhaps commences with a lament, or alternatively a position of praise, before noting some of God's qualities, then ending with a promise to trust. Psalm 129 is not like this at all. It [...]
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How to Live With Estrangement From Your Children
It is natural for a parent to yearn for the best for their child. That is why if you are estranged from your child, you are in so much pain and that is why you care. It is part of nature the same way that we breathe air. I know that there are many approaches [...]
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'All My Children' Remembered by Viewers on Last Day
Fans took to Twitter to lament the last day of All My Children, quickly making the show a trending topic. The soap will sign off ABC Friday after 41 years on the air. It will be replaced with daytime talk show, The Chew. PHOTOS: 'All My Children': Famous Alums of ABC's Daytime Drama The show [...]
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Quote of the Day is a response to lament about why Hollywood doesn't make more movies for the 40-plus crowd
Besides the cost of going to a movie these days, one reason DVD and streaming movie rentals are popular – particularly for adults in the 40-plus range — is that they don't have to put up with annoying younger theater patrons who believe they are in their family room where video games are more likely [...]
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Ultimate Astros » Talking points: Luck isn’t shining on the Astros, and it’s really for the best
PITTSBURGH — Brett Myers didn’t out-and-out use the L word, though he hinted that his luck left a little something to be desired during his latest outing on Monday. Catcher Carlos Corporan didn’t dance around the L word, saying, “Once again, we’ve got bad luck,” and adding, “This luck is going to change.” On Tuesday, [...]
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Comic-C'mon!
The geeks can feel it coming, a tingling of Spidey sense, a tremor in the Force, like skin turning green at the onset of a Hulk rage. We’re one month out from San Diego Comic-Con. But a few production studios aren’t coming this year, The New York Times reported in a parade-raining story last week [...]
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Whats the song played in the movie forgetting sarah marshall?
In the scene where he goes out to dinner with mila kunis, and his ex and her new bf show up and hes says they can join them for dinner and his ex says yes. Well when they are having dinner there is a song playing in the background…. Im trying to figure out what [...]
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Angelina Jolie stars in 'Salt' as a CIA superspy
In her new movie “Salt,” Angelina Jolie is outfitted in blond wigs, black wigs, jumpsuits, pantsuits. She can appear eerily strait-laced in one scene and goth in the next. She’s probably the most dynamic action star in the movies right now and certainly the most exotic. In “Salt,” she’s playing a role that originally was [...]
