threnody

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

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 ● Jan. 1, 2016

But this grim vista is redeemed by the expansiveness of O'Rowe's supernatural vision, and by his beat-poetic script, a drummed threnody to the beautiful and the damned.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2011

Eliot and describes this theme as "the larger threnody lamenting the death of criticism."

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 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

He is fantastic and conceited in most of the threnodies; but, as is natural, that on his old friend, Sir Henry Rainsford, is least artificial and fullest of true feeling.

From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett