dirgelike

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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 second movement features dirgelike variations on a theme by Clara Wieck—i.e.,

From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2019

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

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

He silences the festivity by chanting his dirgelike reproof to the merrymakers.

From The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children by Lobingier, Elizabeth Erwin Miller