threnody

Example Sentences

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When you’re expecting extinction, it makes sense to record the threnody in advance.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

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

It was an acute and devastating threnody, which King read in a methodical cadence.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017

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

Then we heard the Muses sing a threnody in nine immortal voices.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer