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

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

A sort of thrash-dance with dirgelike interludes, it had energy but was less than satisfying.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2010

Peace!' an' maybe once in a while the royal voice lifted in one of them sad slumber songs of the South Seas—creepy and dirgelike and beautiful.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Grant, Gordon