threnody

How To Use threnody In A Sentence

• But inside the echo were sounds not quite their own-a kind of threnody, a weeping, something melodic and sad.
• Thomson's memorial poem to the Lord Chancellor, dedicated to William Talbot, is as much a work of political opposition as it is a threnody.
• A ‘threnody’ is a dirge, a song of lamentation; the artist intended to create an environment that would be conducive to meditation on death and destruction.
• Mute arbitress of all thy sad, thy rapturous threnody. Collected Poems
• At the close, he switches back to the minor, violins softly reiterating the sad opening motive like a threnody of distilled passion.
• It is a mournful threnody, measuring to the final cost the waste and destruction caused by the edenic myths of California that have defined it throughout its existence.
• Considered over a lifetime, written by a dying old man in the remnants of his ducal palace in Palermo, it is a threnody to a fallen patrician class.
• She wished she had earplugs; the sounds were deafening, an eternal shrill threnody of nonlife. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
• His threnody captured the awful essence of untimely death in early-twentieth-century black societies that prized marriage and reproduction.
• Considered over a lifetime, written by a dying old man in the remnants of his ducal palace in Palermo, it is a threnody to a fallen patrician class.