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Recent Examples of dirge
Women in black mourning weeds gathered and hummed dirges.
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Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
What follows is a haunting collection of dirges and hymns that fuses the high points of his career: the symphonic pomp of 2005's Illinois, the electronic maximalism of 2010's The Age of Adz, and the spartan folk of 2015's Carrie & Lowell, a work inspired by the death of his mother.
—Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2023
The drums of failure beat a sharp, staccato dirge in Siran's mind.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
The former is both a dirge and a monument for the victims of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.
—The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
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Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
What follows is a haunting collection of dirges and hymns that fuses the high points of his career: the symphonic pomp of 2005's Illinois, the electronic maximalism of 2010's The Age of Adz, and the spartan folk of 2015's Carrie & Lowell, a work inspired by the death of his mother.
—Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2023
The drums of failure beat a sharp, staccato dirge in Siran's mind.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
The former is both a dirge and a monument for the victims of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.
—The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dirge
Noun
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a half-skeptical lament for the process of tyranny and dissent, as alluded to in the scriptural epigraph about the strangling Ficus religiosa tree that gives the film its title.—
Armond White,
National Review,
22 Jan. 2025
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In classical terms, this begins as an Adagio in D minor — a slow lament led by a solo cello, that accelerates into a chaotic swell of strings.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
25 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Tell, yell, hell, hello, elegy, tottle, otology, geology, theology.—
John McPhee,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Worm’s visualization of his collection, then, is an unwitting elegy of species pushed to the brink of existence by human pressures.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
10 Jan. 2025
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No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger, no macaque will write a requiem for piano and violin.—
Kathryn Schulz,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2024
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“Dirge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirge. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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