21.   Lamenting the loss of her teen-age beauty, she whines petulantly about the hundreds of hours she wasted honing her shape on the StairMaster.

22.   Longtime Kennedy confidant Richard Goodwin, a speechwriter for JFK and Robert Kennedy, Thursday lamented the loss of the old discipline.

23.   Neighbors lamented the loss of a mother and daughter they hardly knew, saying that whenever they saw them together, the child seemed happy, always smiling.

24.   Nagkay laments the loss of the old village life.

25.   Nor did he lament the loss of a no-hitter, which he has never thrown.

26.   Now we lament the loss of what might have been.

27.   Our voices choke when we lament the loss of a man who showed how to live a life of faith and dignity in the most adverse circumstances.

28.   Other than lamenting the loss of trust on the Internet, the book is short on what this all means, if anything.

29.   Quinn laments the loss of widespread literacy in poetry.

30.   She laments the loss of interest in good lingerie among young women.