dirgeful

“Blue Smoke” is a dirgeful final number in which the narrator declares what he will stand — or not — in future relationships.

“The Simple Fear” In the same vein as Dido and Lenka is the talented, soulful Brooke Annibale of Pittsburgh, whose “The Simple Fear” is a dirgeful travelogue of loss and meditative angst wrapped in beautiful harmonies and contemplative lyrics.

And so, almost a week on from the celebration of great British popular music, there's still the bemused urge to know what preening boy band One Direction were doing there, and how George Michael was allowed to perform a song that no one had ever heard, and why Annie Lennox chose the dirgeful Little Bird and looked like she was appearing in a zombie version of Les Miserables, and what conceivable bearing on anything did the lifeless fashion interlude have?

And even as we return from the land of pleasure along paths of duty, the refrain sounds sadly in our ears that all earth's joys are fleeting; that the ocean of eternity must be the end of life's bark; that its tideless waves may ever be heard, deeply dirgeful, in the intervals of vanity and madness.

Four thousand people and a dirgeful police band turned out for Georgadjis' funeral.