threnody
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When you’re expecting extinction, it makes sense to record the threnody in advance.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
Of course, “the unspeakable horror of the literary life” — to borrow Mr. Earbrass’s phrase from Edward Gorey’s “The Unstrung Harp” — is a familiar threnody in the writing biz.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022
It was an acute and devastating threnody, which King read in a methodical cadence.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017
Maf the Dog, like Lolita, like The Great Gatsby, is a threnody for lost innocence.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2010
Their voices blended into a threnody of nostalgia about pain.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
On “From Ukraine, For Ukraine,” a darkly brilliant new omnibus album by the cutting-edge Kyiv label Standard Deviation, grief and rage melt into impudently beautiful contemporary threnodies.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
By fusing gay rage and sorrow with familiar musical gestures—Straussian orchestral explosions, Samuel Barber-like threnodies for strings—it ennobled a portion of the population for which many orchestra subscribers might have felt disgust.
From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2019
Gazing at demagoguery, environmental ruin and intimate betrayal, Thom Yorke croons threnodies, not lullabies.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2016
The nation that was once the world's most famous optimist began to shuffle around in a bathrobe, feeling mediocre and depleted, listening to threnodies by the Club of Rome.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Elegies comprise a great variety of styles and themes; some are really threnodies, some verse-letters, some laments over the evil times, and one a summary of Drayton's literary opinions.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
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