How To Use Plangent In A Sentence
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‘Scarlet Woman’ steals in with a plangent sax call, muted desert drum and synthesized wind and slowly steals away again.
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When Steiner jumps he is shown in slow motion, accompanied by the plangent, minimal music of Florian Fricke's band Popol Vuh.
Werner Herzog, the adventurous spirit
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Kaufmann's voice was at both its most limber and controlled here, his delivery achieving subtle colorations in the work's atmospheric hothouses, as with his nearly vibrato-less "Ich hab' im Traum geweinet" (I wept in my dream), his plangent "Aus alten Märchen winkt es" (From old fairy tales beckons...), and the oaken darkness of his "Die alten, bösen Lieder" (the old, angry songs), summing up the poet's journey.
Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera
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Enormous engine is plangent blow airline challenges civilian battalion the bugle of state - owned airline.
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Agrippina," with a plangent oboe obbligato from Marc Schachman, came as a reminder of how eloquent Daniels can be.
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In outline, his play sounds like plangent melodrama.
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Effervescent, lyrical, plangent, wistful by turns, this score surrounds the immortal hit "Le Tourbillon de La Vie" (The Whirlwind of Life), which Ms. Moreau and the composer Bassiak (playing her lover in the movie) made into a world-wide hit, although it had been written seven years earlier.
For the Love of a Fickle Woman
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It is a sorry fact of today's opera world that homogenized loudness is often valued above individualized refinement, yet Mr. Calleja's plangent cantabile phrasing, in which each note is connected in a seamless golden line, recalls the old masters like Gigli whose voice his most resembles and more recent exponents of exquisite vocal art, like Carlo Bergonzi and the late Alain Vanzo.
Here to Deal With the Devil
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The Dream of Perpetual Motion is plangent, tender and sui generis: a steampunk The Tempest with the grim and rippling beauty of a fairy tale.
The Dream of Perpetual Motion: Summary and book reviews of The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer.
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Davis sprays ripples of Wurlitzer type electric piano over Favors and DeJohnette's warm, funk tinged swing or lays down plangent, rich chording on acoustic piano.
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Still, no one is likely to go to Shakespeare's plangent farewell drama on the off-chance of chortling at the comic scenes.
Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review
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As the guitar's tone is intrinsically less plangent than the oboe's, the character of the music is greatly altered in this work too.
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Winsome, plangent arias are teased out with great sensitivity; the snappier, sassier episodes pass by with a cheeky flourish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Riding on a crisply insistent motorik groove, masses of electric guitars weave plangent chords, punctuated by dirty feedback squeals.
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There's a rich tradition of plangent, slightly overheated sacred art that treats the spirit as flesh - think Correggio and Barocci, among others.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Fragonard's sacred heat
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He creates a tone that is, appropriately, melancholy and plangent; at times quite painfully beautiful.
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The bijou effect of the original could easily translate into unwitting preciosity, and one appreciates the translator's wariness of plangent excess.
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Here were colors to delight her — marigold yellows as intense as sunlight, coral reds and blood reds and rust reds, joyous oranges and plangent blue-greens — and patterns to astonish, blossoms and vines and bulbs and leaves, every manner of floral gaudery both woven and embroidered in the style proper to a woman of rank.
Spirit Gate
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Yet, as Cassy Mavor looked out upon the exquisite beauty of the scene, upon the splendid outspanning of the sun along the hills, the deep plangent blue of the sky and the thrilling light, she saw
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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Beres Hammond brings a deep sense of hurt and resignation to ‘Just Like a Woman’ as his voice quavers and breaks at the bridge; it's a warm lament over plangent Hammond organ.
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Human voices breathe as one with those of the plangent solo oboe and the dark, muffled bass woodwind.
Times, Sunday Times
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the plangent minority
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Durey's use of bi- and polytonality is less strident and upfront than Milhaud's, and he mixes it with a plangent lyricism which, despite Durey's avowed intention to forget Ravel, is surely influenced by the latter's quartet of 1903.
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plangent bells
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And nicely plangent chords accompanied the mutiny leader's body solemnly being brought to port.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wiry, plangent sound of Kurosaki's 1801 violin is perfectly complemented by the percussive but singing tone of Linda Nicholson's Viennese fortepiano, especially effective in the powerful C minor Sonata Op 30 No 2.
Beethoven: violin sonatas vol 4, op 30 nos 1 - 3; violin sonatas 'Kreutzer' op 47, no 10 op 96
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The bell on the orthodox church called the members of Mr. Peck's society together for the business meeting with the same plangent, lacerant note that summoned them to worship on Sundays.
Annie Kilburn : a Novel
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The blend of music theatrical ebullience, popular styles, and evocative, plangent tone pictures about the legendary 4th century saint evinces much of the best of his early style.
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In this and many ways, Moving Pictures is a plangent and honest book, rendered all the more affecting by its modulation and detachment.
The Prince of Paramount
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Flick through the economic reports published this week and the same plangent theme sounds again and again.
George Osborne: A lonely figure | Editorial
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Yet, as Cassy Mavor looked out upon the exquisite beauty of the scene, upon the splendid outspanning of the sun along the hills, the deep plangent blue of the sky and the thrilling light, she saw a world in agony and she heard the moans of the afflicted.
Northern Lights
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I needed some guidance that only the best poetry can provide, so I turned to this month's issue of plangent voices magazine, at $3.75 your best entertainment value.
Spring Cleaning for Poets
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Abbuehl's own writing is equally strong; the opening ‘Yes is a Pleasant Country’ is simply gorgeous; nothing extraneous, every note placed with unforced precision over plangent piano chording.
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Spiky string figures contrasted with plangent cello before a joyous hoedown of a climax.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kaufmann's voice was at both its most limber and controlled here, his delivery achieving subtle colorations in the work's atmospheric hothouses, as with his nearly vibrato-less "Ich hab' im Traum geweinet" (I wept in my dream), his plangent "Aus alten Märchen winkt es" (From old fairy tales beckons...), and the oaken darkness of his "Die alten, bösen Lieder" (the old, angry songs), summing up the poet's journey.
Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera
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But there was a seamlessness in the way that both tracks used bold chord structures, acid squiggles and plangent spaciousness.
Times, Sunday Times
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And nicely plangent chords accompanied the mutiny leader's body solemnly being brought to port.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those sorts of fiscal transfers become particularly plangent during times of general austerity, like the one the U.K. is facing now.
EU Integration Would Come at a High Price
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Caller Errin!) exteriorises on this ourherenow plane in disunited solod, likeward and gushious bodies with (science, say!) peril-whitened passionpanting pugnoplangent intuitions of reunited selfdom (murky whey, abstrew adim!) in the higherdimissional selfless Allself, theemeeng Narsty meetheeng Idoless, and telling
Finnegans Wake
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Yet the score, with its plangent chords full of added fourths, and snatched motifs which promise elusive melody then dissolve, locks you in its grip.
Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio
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He has a rather different sort of voice, just as well-schooled but with a juicier, more plangent tone that he uses to achieve the expressive effects and vocal colors that make his style so arresting.
