dirgelike

Example Sentences

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The result is not a dirgelike hagiography but a swift-moving and curiously sprightly movie that captures Bourdain’s vitality, his biting humor, his weapons-grade charisma, and his seemingly limitless hunger for new experiences.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2021

The second movement features dirgelike variations on a theme by Clara Wieck—i.e.,

From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2019

Their stillness is in tension with the dirgelike motion of the train, which accounts for some of the blurring that occurs in the photos, particularly around the edges.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2018

Cramming fantasy and mysticism, faith and history into a single riverboat journey, this dirgelike meditation on China’s painful economic rebirth dispenses with narrative in favor of semiotics.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2016

When he came back, I let him talk, fearful that he might prove to be a jarring note in the sweet, dirgelike harmony of his establishment.

From Waifs and Strays Part 1 by Henry, O.