plangent

Example Sentences

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Where are the movie stars and pop icons with their beautifully produced plangent video pleas for justice?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

He plays subtext beautifully in “Spiderhead,” with plangent notes of regret.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2022

Jennifer Johnson Cano’s mezzo-soprano was smoothly plangent as Emilia; the tenor Pene Pati was a sweetly ingenuous Cassio.

From New York Times • May 22, 2022

Then you have this very plangent, perpetual, constant simple question, which of course is not simple, and then the chaos grows and grows, and I thought, this is the moment we are living right now.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2022

One evening, camped at the edge of a deep wood, Tristran heard something he had never heard before: a beautiful melody, plangent and strange.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman