dirge
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With Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” as a piano dirge.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Its internal speaker plays a rumbling soundtrack that sends the drumsticks attached to the instrument flittering, giving the sense of a ghostly presence tapping out a brooding dirge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
It might be time to pause the funeral dirge for software and services stocks.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
The mystery, along with Lightfoot’s mournful and eminently meme-able dirge, created fertile soil for a cultural resurgence today—one driven largely by Gen Z and millennials who love mythologizing working-class tragedies and Midwestern nostalgia.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2025
She pecked at Pan’s knee and hummed something that sounded like a funeral dirge.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
A complementary contrast was Lenny Kravitz performing "Calling All Angels" during the In Memoriam segment, lending it an air of sweet remembrance as opposed to dirges of yesteryear.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2023
Orthodox Christian priests led a vigil in Brovary on Thursday, chanting dirges and burning incense as residents placed flowers and cuddly toys at a makeshift memorial near the nursery.
From Reuters ● Jan. 19, 2023
Boleros from the borderlands, civil rights gospel anthems and Dust Bowl dirges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
As the cortege passed through Horse Guards Parade, the crowds began applauding, their joyful expressions of affection contrasting with the funeral dirges being played by the queen’s band.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
At first she played “Yori Yori” and “Obi Mu O” endlessly and then she stopped, because the songs brought to her memories a finality, as though they were dirges.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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