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
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
But “Suffocating,” a slow dirgelike ballad about being stuck in the past, asks more of his voice than it’s prepared to give.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2010
A sort of thrash-dance with dirgelike interludes, it had energy but was less than satisfying.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2010
The bare boughs of the trees beat together in a dirgelike monotone.
From 'way Down In Lonesome Cove 1895 by A. B. (Arthur Burdett) Frost
