plangent
Example Sentences
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Adjuah sings in a keening, plangent tone, but at one point he pauses to offer a spoken invitation: “Listen to the wind,” he says.
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A clear highlight was “Amelia,” a plangent, airy meditation on freedom and flight.
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She shushed her daughters, sloshing in nearby mud, so she could tease out the source of some plangent rumble.
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In the three decades since his diagnosis, he has released about 100 records — gentle suites of forlorn melodies, relentless spans of plangent notes, and, most recently, sprawling drifts of ghostly tones.
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Speaking from her home studio in London, a converted garden shed, she turned to that instrument to play a few plangent clusters of notes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
