dirgelike
Example Sentences
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The result is not a dirgelike hagiography but a swift-moving and curiously sprightly movie that captures Bourdain’s vitality, his biting humor, his weapons-grade charisma, and his seemingly limitless hunger for new experiences.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2021
The group won an Emmy last year for “Letter to the Free,” a protest anthem straddling the space between dirgelike lament and proud march, and a full album is coming in March.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2018
It would be especially funny to see them end a show that way, but they ended with the ur-Dinosaur Jr. song, from “You’re Living All Over Me”—“SludgeFeast,” a soaring, dirgelike triumph.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2014
But "Suffocating," a slow dirgelike ballad about being stuck in the past, asks more of his voice than it's prepared to give.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2010
Peace!' an' maybe once in a while the royal voice lifted in one of them sad slumber songs of the South Seas—creepy and dirgelike and beautiful.
From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Grant, Gordon
