plangent

But his March 1930 letter was the longest and most plangent.

Plangent rock music adds to the room's raw edge, but no one seems to mind.

The music was unfolding to fill the space, plangent and pure.

He heard something pass overhead with a plangent sound.

But a reader is likely to keep thinking about many of the larger issues raised by the butler's plangent story, and for a long time.

Here, she has all the directness of the plangent melodic line.

Suddenly a plangent voice was given to these hitherto dumb animals.

One of the passengers, a short squat man, spoke in a plangent bass.

The harp played itself, strings plangent with the music of the spheres.

I The universe seemed to vibrate to a single plangent chord.

The open kitchen and plangent rock music amplify the festive mood.

The expanded frame seems to free her into a more plangent and embracing idiom.

Then came the quiet plangent sound of a harpsichord.

Even now she could hear the plangent melody issuing from Saul's tent.

A guitar plangent through tropical dusk or in an Arctic hut.

His Romanticism can be heard in long-lined and often plangent string writing.

The events of Sept. 11 will give this film a plangent quality he couldn't have foreseen.

These two valiant women echo the plangent longing of their shackled men.

The slow movement has a plangent lyricism unusual even for Poulenc.

The song moves easily, with plangent chords, and yet doesn't ever quite resolve.

A moment later the plangent spice of a joss stick wafted his way.

Some were high and pinched like Middle Eastern music, others deep and plangent.

It has four movements, one of which is a brilliant tarantella, another a plangent theme and variations.

Do you find life less plangent now?"

Francie made a final plangent chord and took the fiddle from under his chin.