plangent
Example Sentences
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A complex, funny, plangently sorrowful Pygmalion story is enacted between two people who are connected but also held apart by their separate histories of oppression.
Where are the movie stars and pop icons with their beautifully produced plangent video pleas for justice?
As the Choreographer, Megan Moore’s plangent mezzo was especially effective in her mourning aria; soprano Whitney Morrison was dramatic as the Performance Artist, the only member of the creative quintet who sees what is coming.
But they are also plangently individual, yearning to harmonize their fates with their true selves.
In an era of plangent indie rock, they were the studied, intricate eccentrics.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
