threnody
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Of course, “the unspeakable horror of the literary life” — to borrow Mr. Earbrass’s phrase from Edward Gorey’s “The Unstrung Harp” — is a familiar threnody in the writing biz.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022
It was an acute and devastating threnody, which King read in a methodical cadence.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017
He can still drag tears from hardened hacks with his Song for Richard Collopy, a threnody for his late guitar restorer, whose devastation lies in its affectionate detail.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2012
Eliot and describes this theme as "the larger threnody lamenting the death of criticism."
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2010
Then we heard the Muses sing a threnody in nine immortal voices.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
On “From Ukraine, For Ukraine,” a darkly brilliant new omnibus album by the cutting-edge Kyiv label Standard Deviation, grief and rage melt into impudently beautiful contemporary threnodies.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
By fusing gay rage and sorrow with familiar musical gestures—Straussian orchestral explosions, Samuel Barber-like threnodies for strings—it ennobled a portion of the population for which many orchestra subscribers might have felt disgust.
From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2019
Gazing at demagoguery, environmental ruin and intimate betrayal, Thom Yorke croons threnodies, not lullabies.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2016
The nation that was once the world's most famous optimist began to shuffle around in a bathrobe, feeling mediocre and depleted, listening to threnodies by the Club of Rome.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is, however, one of our natural rights, now cruelly beset by its enemies, that is too precious to surrender to the threnodies of the future historians.
From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various
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