threnody
Example Sentences
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“There Were Bells” is a threnody for planetary extinction from Brian Eno’s coming album, “Foreverandevernomore.”
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2022
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
After a savage climax, a slow, occasionally discursive string threnody takes over, during which the brass intrusions gradually lose some ferocity and the music moves towards a tentative nobility.
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2012
Their voices blended into a threnody of nostalgia about pain.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
