threnody

Example Sentences

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A lone song suddenly released by Maxwell, as yet unconnected to an album, arrives like a threnody for liberal democracy.

From New York Times

Most critics acknowledged the score’s beautiful moments, especially Cleopatra’s death scene, in which the character’s plaintive lyrical lines are capped by a chilling choral threnody.

From New York Times

It was an acute and devastating threnody, which King read in a methodical cadence.

From The New Yorker

Ride the High Country is a threnody for an obsolete kind of heroism and the code of honor underpinning it.

From The Guardian

A threnody for strings, rich in aching suspensions, appears twice, first to lament the deaths of millions and later to mark a more personal loss.

From The New Yorker