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
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
The three-man band — Mr. Immerwahr on bass and vocals, John Engle on guitar and Chris Brokaw on drums — chose dirgelike tempos, ambiguous chords and unassertive vocals carrying thoughts of despair and suppressed anger.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2012
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
It was loud and delirious, in contrast to the gentle, dirgelike notes that had characterized the other.
From The Gray Phantom by Herman Landon
