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

A sort of thrash-dance with dirgelike interludes, it had energy but was less than satisfying.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2010

There was a pause; the sexton's dirgelike task was done, and now it only remained for him to strike the age, and tell how many years the departed one had numbered.

From Aikenside by Holmes, Mary Jane