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

Cramming fantasy and mysticism, faith and history into a single riverboat journey, this dirgelike meditation on China’s painful economic rebirth dispenses with narrative in favor of semiotics.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2016

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

When he came back, I let him talk, fearful that he might prove to be a jarring note in the sweet, dirgelike harmony of his establishment.

From Waifs and Strays Part 1 by Henry, O.