| 单词 | plangent |
| 例句 | One evening, camped at the edge of a deep wood, Tristran heard something he had never heard before: a beautiful melody, plangent and strange. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z As the forest’s warning became louder, more plangent and strident, William’s buoyant mood shivered, quailed, and fled like a routed army from the field. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z But while “City So Real” ends on a plangent note, it also highlights the indomitability of the city and its voices. ‘City So Real’ Is an Election Story Pulsing With Life 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Reed insidiously morphs from nasal dweeb to resonant behemoth, hysterically mismatched with diminutive Dalton, whose plangent soprano and comic élan wouldn’t shame Kristin Chenoweth. The laughter is contagious at Hollywood Fringe Festival's 'Toxic Avenger' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z On either side of the stage, two Pierrots pound plangent chords at the Mighty Wurlitzer organs, out of which sprouts metal piping, fancifully twisted like a Ted Geisel Seussaphone. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z This book is a plangent document of journalistic heroism. Books of The Times: Directly Confronting the Appalling 2011-04-04T22:00:07Z It wasn't just Chaplin's ethereal, plangent voice that won me over: Hopes and Fears is an unequivocally great album – not a dud track and with a melodic generosity that was astounding in contemporary British rock. William Boyd: Why I love Keane 2012-06-14T20:29:00Z But here they felt more like a plangent confession, and a vow of beleaguered solidarity. Live Jazz: 3 July Standouts, From Thumbscrew to Nabaté Isles 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The plangent tenors, lush baritones and rumbling basses are in excellent voice, and when they come together, the sensation is tremendous and the musical chill effect engulfing. Review: In ‘All Is Calm,’ Thrilling Song in the Trenches 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Its plangent slow movements and its bright, assertive and often rhythmically quirky fast ones seem almost to cry out for a vocal line. Music Review: Baroque Style?s Evolution Is Traced Across Europe 2010-10-12T21:45:00Z Then Motion described the winning book as 'plangent'. Howard Jacobson: 'I've been discovered' 2010-10-13T17:14:00Z But it’s fascinating nevertheless to see an early version of the lyrical mood that would lend her later movies, such as Meek’s Cutoff and Certain Women, their particular plangent glow. My streaming gem: why you should watch River of Grass 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z He thought of himself, with a plangent mixture of hubris and wistfulness, as an inheritor of the Proustian tradition of classical high modernism. A new look at Jack Kerouac, from the Library of America 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Starker, more plangent expression was, and parts of the work called to mind quartets by Janacek and Bartok. Music Review: Joel Sachs Takes New Juilliard Ensemble to MoMA 2010-07-26T23:43:00Z Pink Floyd's distinctive slow, plangent anthems - like "Comfortably Numb" - are a big part of "The Wall." Music Review: Waters Points ‘The Wall’ Toward Abuse of Power 2012-07-07T13:03:25Z Its juxtaposition of the personal and the political — Ms. Manning’s plangent isolation, coupled with the geopolitical reverberations of her revelations — is as unsettling as it is in “Klinghoffer.” ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Nobody does plangent as well, or as tastefully. Review: In Piotr Beczala’s Recital, Melancholy Mixes With Defiance 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z The music shifts from jaunty exchanges between the women to passages where the Mother’s fantasy of her family’s future is evoked by plangent, wide-spaced, Copland-esque chords. Review: Police Violence Reaches Opera in ‘Blue’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z These albums are smaller than that — plangent ruminations that demonstrated that even amid all the tumult, not all of his instincts abandoned him. The 28 Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z But piled on top of plangent guitars, the convergence can become grating, with all the emotion of archery, or some other sport that prizes accuracy above all. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-08-29T21:53:00Z That record feels like the template for the formidable and lush “Pilot Talk,” full of braying guitars, seductive, plangent keyboards and crisp drums, and purportedly free of samples. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Korn, Currensy and Tom Jones 2010-07-26T00:05:00Z Ms. Womack is an exceptional singer with a plangent voice designed for lingering on notes and words, especially plaintive ones — that’s why some of the wordier songs here, like “Tomorrow Night in Baltimore,” feel forced. Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Ironically, given the work's secular inspiration, it is the plangent repletion of the expiring match seller's prayer "Have mercy, My God" that forms the most affecting sequence. David Lang 2010-05-04T20:45:00Z The nicest surprise is how the husband-wife writer team of Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver keep the movie's genre motor running while creating a plangent parable of parenthood. Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Chimpan-tastic! 2011-08-04T16:05:00Z “Calls From the Fog” was more austere, starting with a plangent voice from the flutist Roy Amotz that was answered by an echoing electronic drone. Music Review: Meitar Ensemble at Roulette 2013-04-19T21:24:58Z The second half of “Ancient Dreams” is more inward-focused — a breakup album — including “Highly Emotional People,” a delicate ballad interrogating male stoicism, and the plangent closer, “Goodbye.” Marina’s Music Was Caught Between Worlds. Now She’s Making Her Own. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z She gives an excellent reading of the show’s most plangent and cautionary ballad, “Children Will Listen.” REVIEW: 'Into the Woods': A Disney Musical for Adults of All Ages 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z She shushed her daughters, sloshing in nearby mud, so she could tease out the source of some plangent rumble. The Poignant Music of Melting Ice 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z And Ms. Michelson’s music produces real chills, as when the piano and cello land on the same plangent note. In ‘Inner Voices,’ Two Solo Musicals About Illness 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z There is little charge in her interactions with Mr. Alagna, his voice plangent, steady and generous and his acting appealingly forceful. Elina Garanca Reprises Her Role in ‘Carmen’ 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z The plangent wooze of lap steel isn't wrong either, adding a note of ghostly succour to the lovely closing track, Tamiditine. Bombino: Nomad – review 2013-03-31T00:05:07Z There are also – as per the previous show – lushly shot film sequences that deal less in humour than plangent oddity. Tim Key ? review 2011-08-14T17:30:02Z That 1968 Times review described him as “a strapping fellow with a plangent and sizable voice, as well as considerable stage magnetism.” Review: Plácido Domingo Reaches 50 Years at the Met Opera 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Tempos in the outer movements and the Scherzo were brisk, and Mr. Gilbert’s account of the Funeral March was plangent, if never quite sublime. Music Review: Renderings Energetic and Brash 2011-05-06T05:00:07Z Its sound creamy and warm, the group sings with a smooth blend that nevertheless allows individual voices to pierce through: a plangent alto here, a slightly husky bass there. Music Review: Stile Antico Pays Tribute to ‘Tudor Church Music’ 2014-03-09T20:21:15Z The scenario offers composers a wedding party, a tragic death, an evocation of what lies beyond, an attempt at resurrection, a plangent lament — opportunities to shine, and to place themselves in a grand tradition. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The stories in “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” are not as cohesive or as plangent as those in “Jesus’ Son.” Catching Up With Denis Johnson’s Star-Crossed Drifters 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z The house we rent is, for me, forever mingled in my mind with a plangent memoir I read on the porch, the British food writer Nigel Slater’s “Toast.” | Books: Ah, the Trips Taken by Just Sitting Still 2013-07-18T21:24:20Z A few years ago poor Ned, who is played with a plangent ache by the terrific Brad Heberlee, fell when rock climbing and shattered his skull. Review: A Restaged ‘Small Mouth Sounds’ Still Sparkles 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z There is more anguish here, starting with the first movement’s plangent theme, and returning in full force in the more violent sections of the second scherzo and much of the finale. Music Review: Daniel Harding Conducts New York Philharmonic in Mahler 2011-12-03T00:28:20Z This “Ape Forest” is no less plangent in musing on both the origin of the species and its potentially awful end. REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Who Needs Humans? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z For the 2013 Venice Biennale, he filled a boat with a brass band that played the same plangent notes for all six months of the show. In His Hands, a Love Song Becomes a Requiem for Plague Times 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Sarah Lyall asked plangently in The New York Times earlier this month. 400 Days Later, the New York Philharmonic Returns 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z It's an exercise in plangent that is as much indebted to his own musical icon, Woody Guthrie, as it is to country touchstones like Hank Williams and Waylon Jennings. Justin Townes Earle ? review 2011-07-29T17:30:49Z In the evening, perhaps there would be enigmatic silences between gentle characters accompanied by the plinkety-plunkety-plink of wind-chimes and later a full and plangent moon. The Raid ? review 2012-05-17T14:29:02Z Emily Blunt deserved a nomination for lending voice and plangent heart to the Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods; boo-hoo for her. Oscars 2015 Nominations Analysis: Who Will Take Home the Awards? 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Mostly, he leans in to lamentation, like on “Gone Till November” and “How the Game Go,” plangent takes on overcoming adversity. Rod Wave and Lil Tjay, Two Brands of Sing-Rap With Different Bite 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Death was everywhere, and that put life on canvas into a more plangent key. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z It's nearly all written in a plangent, insistent now. Not the Booker prize: Advice for Strays 2010-09-27T12:49:00Z There's a strong sense of mood in the accompanying music: it ranges from aching plangent accordion to thrumming rock, overlaid with militaristic rhythms. Earthfall ? review 2012-02-13T17:45:27Z While it appears ascetically cerebral, you may read in the series a plangent metaphor about how time eventually washes everything into oblivion. ‘For a New World to Come,’ Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Its sound is denser, more plangent and textured, more given to droning groove. Music Review: The Tomasz Stanko Quintet Performs at Birdland 2010-04-14T21:27:00Z The strings, particularly in Mr. Jansons’s plangent reading of the finale, were rich-toned and supple, qualities matched by the remarkably focused woodwind and brass sections. Music Review: A Dutch Orchestra Plumbing the Depths 2010-02-19T04:35:00Z The ending of the episode, besides being lovely—a plangent Michael Penn original song, plus the lonely beauty of Coney Island too early in the morning—takes Hannah down, figuratively, to nothing. Girls Watch: She Takes the Cake 2012-06-18T10:54:00Z Quartet – watch the trailer But Harwood is funnier, less plangently melancholic, and much faster moving than Hunter. Quartet – review 2013-01-06T00:08:41Z He had a penchant for lightly plangent country, and lived in the long shadow of what was once called alternative rock. Post Malone and Pop’s Single Sound 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z What makes it all the more moving is that it segues into a plangent choral lament of "How dare they try to end this beauty?" Hair 2010-04-14T16:56:00Z When the players reassembled for the Prokofiev finale, however, the orchestra emerged as a supple ensemble with a big unified sound, impressive and mostly unified brass, and plangent, expert woodwinds with lots of character. Jon Kimura Parker shines with Vancouver Symphony | Classical review 2013-01-24T17:48:49Z Whether it’s an evisceration or a sly apologia will depend on whom you ask, but it’s a notable effort to wed the puckish to the plangent. A Punk Band That Knows “The Bar Is Low” for Straight White Men 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z In the three decades since his diagnosis, he has released about 100 records — gentle suites of forlorn melodies, relentless spans of plangent notes, and, most recently, sprawling drifts of ghostly tones. The Remarkable, Resilient Loren Connors 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z But the strains the score forces toward the edges of his range feel more intentional now, even beautiful; his tone is sometimes plangently lyrical, sometimes sarcastically sharp. Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Take “Untitled,” a suite of plangent guitars and lightly woozy singing: The New Indie Pop: Off-Kilter, Handmade, Whimsical and Emotional 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z In the lovely Siegfried Idyll, Fischer draws a floating, dancing sound from his Budapest strings with a plangent solo clarinet. Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Die Meistersinger, Siegfried Idyll – review 2013-06-01T23:05:26Z In perhaps the most impressive performance I have heard Mr. Rattle give, he drew lush and plangent yet clear-textured and purposeful playing from the great Met orchestra. Music Review: Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom 2010-12-19T19:20:50Z Only Tennessee Williams, an early influence, summons a cultural past with such a plangent mix of rhapsody and disgust. Review: ‘He Brought Her Heart Back,’ Adrienne Kennedy’s Beautiful Nightmare 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z “The stories in ‘The Largesse of the Sea Maiden’ are not as cohesive or as plangent as those in ‘Jesus’ Son,’” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z His agitations for closure progress from the plangent to the comical to the downright rude, giving this short, unlikely novel the even unlikelier distinction of being a page-turner. Facts not what they appear in Barnes' novella 2011-10-26T21:52:03Z This more visceral piece from 2011, to plangent Arvo Pärt, deploys one anguished soloist after the next in the center of the stage. Dance Review: Paul Taylor’s Junior Ensemble Performs at Pace 2014-04-25T21:59:14Z His first encounter with Guadagni was in a revival of his work Saul, where the character David, written for a countertenor voice, sings the plangent, largo aria Oh Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless. Guadagni: the first modern singer? 2012-07-19T13:13:24Z Repeating, overlapping, surging, receding, both plangent and smiling, it made perfect sense in the catalog alongside modern Minimalism. ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z The alternately lively and plangent “Alcyone” suite was also a revelation, a kind of riff on the style of earlier Lully operas. Music Review: ‘Alcyone’ Emerges From a Tafelmusik Grab Bag 2014-03-19T19:54:02Z He was especially convincing in his character’s impetuous and anguished utterances, which he emphasized with an appealing plangent ping. Review: Two Pinch-Hitters, Reveling in ‘Carmen’ 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z For Lady Antebellum, country is melodramatic pop full of sweet harmonies and guitars so plangent they practically melt. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Golden,’ by Lady Antebellum and ‘Annie Up’ by Pistol Annies 2013-05-10T22:06:38Z A sad and sombre film that uses a plangent piano soundtrack to tug at the heartstrings, but tempers this with a downbeat reality. A Simple Life – review 2012-08-02T20:30:01Z Only when you see the “Analogue” images over their entire span do you begin to hear the expressive score they’re set to: a slow, plangent bass note. Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Slower and sadder than Murmur and Reckoning and mining a deep vein of Southern Gothic, Fables is rooted in place, time and regional character, as on this plangent ode of sympathy for the workingman. Annotated For the People: A Track By Track Look at the New R.E.M. Retrospective 2011-11-15T10:00:27Z And so the plangent litany of loss and disappointment begins. Book review: ‘The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure,’ edited by C.D. Rose Idiomatic wind solos highlighted the caramel tone of Mr. Vlatkovic’s horn, the plangent refinement of Mr. Kolkay’s bassoon and the pliant sweetness of Mr. Taylor’s oboe. Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Spotlights Albéric Magnard 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z A clear highlight was “Amelia,” a plangent, airy meditation on freedom and flight. Joni Mitchell Returns to the Stage, Golden, Glorious and in Control 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Listening to a plangent aria, he’s less than pleased. ‘Euryanthe,’ Rarely Heard, Is Mounted at Bard 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z This juxtaposition of hard-driving virtuosity and plangent elegy is also a defining feature of “Knee Play 4” from Mr. Glass’s opera “Einstein on the Beach.” Music Review: Philip Glass at Issue Project Room 2012-06-14T21:26:50Z These are plays of pink lipstick, plangent songs, plush animals and searching concerns about how we become and define ourselves. Tina Satter Readies the Stage for ‘Ancient Lives’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Across the pond, Dusty Springfield had broken through with the plangent “I Only Want to Be With You.” Remembering Lesley Gore, a '60s Queen of Teen Angst 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z But his March 1930 letter was the longest and most plangent. Hung up 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z On Monday night, as the entire company massed onstage, it was plangent and melancholy. The Public Theatre at Fifty: “A Machine for Making Community” 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Adjuah sings in a keening, plangent tone, but at one point he pauses to offer a spoken invitation: “Listen to the wind,” he says. Olivia Rodrigo’s Gutsy Catharsis, and 12 More New Songs 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z On “Small Town,” his new album of duets with the bassist Thomas Morgan, Mr. Frisell’s homey, plangent guitar sound is the essence of patient grace. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z In all three works, episodes of crushing sonic violence coexist with oases of serene lyrical beauty for an overall sense of smoldering, luxuriant noise — a plangent yet gorgeous howl. Review: A Composer’s Redacted Music and Raucous Noise 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Half-heard melodies in a darkened room, they explore the sounds a single instrument can make, from the screeching slides of No 5, Chromatically Saucy, to the plangent beauty of No 19, Plaintive Tune. Kurtág, Ligeti: Music for Viola – review 2012-09-29T23:05:34Z The songs here are plangent and full of elegant regret, thanks to the frontman Daniel Blumberg’s willingness to linger on a lyric, repeat it if need be, while guitars tremble beneath him. Playlist: New Batch of Debuts, With ?80s Forebears 2011-02-06T02:08:19Z Instead, it’s a domestic drama that uses Hawking’s peculiar fame to provide a thoughtful, plangent example of the Oscar Wannabe genre. The Theory of Everything review: My Left Brain 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z But she never looked so movie-star glamorous as she does here — her coiffure virtually requires that the Motion Picture Academy create an Oscar for Best Hair — nor struck so plangent a chord. Inception: Whose Mind Is It, Anyway? 2010-07-14T22:00:00Z What follows is the story of Sue and Daniel's summer: funny but plangent, replete with minor humiliations. Costa book awards: the comic contenders 2012-11-20T19:33:01Z Michel Legrand's music runs right through the film: every sentence is sung; there are no spoken words and no standout big numbers, other than the plangent and often repeated "I Will Wait for You". Singing in the rain 2011-03-27T00:04:08Z It is also among the most piercing and plangent of cinematic self-portraits. Terence Davies’s Truthful Fictions About Emily Dickinson 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z In the more melodic passages he produced a lovely plangent sound and elegant phrasing, but in virtuosic showpieces like his Act 2 aria, ornaments often came out smudged and colorless. Review: The Desdemona in This ‘Otello’ Spits Fire 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z You can't help wondering why Polly, the feisty tomboy the hero falls for, should suddenly launch into a famously plangent number in which she pleads for Someone to Watch Over Me. Crazy For You ? review 2011-08-10T18:00:01Z This movie is gorgeously photographed by Ping Bin Lee, and has a plangent, keening orchestral score by Jonny Greenwood. Norwegian Wood ? review 2011-03-10T22:52:00Z The placidity was largely the province of Mr. Fresu, who plays with the lyrical concision and softly plangent tone of Miles Davis. Music Review | Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu: Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu Play at Columbia 2010-03-26T20:50:00Z It’s clear, full and plangent, with crisp diction and unassuming eloquence. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, the Bad Plus, Fred Astaire and More 2014-04-02T16:00:38Z It’s a piece of writing that strikes as many plangent, heartfelt notes as righteous ones. Review | Zoe Leonard speaks straight to your soul 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z The plangent sweetness of Ms. Gal-Ed’s tone and the chiseled grace of her phrasing were beautifully set off by orchestral playing that maintained a springy lightness in both vivacious and deliberate movements. Review: Orpheus’s Shifting Glimmers From Angled Glass 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z “Fault Line” opened in a similar vein, contrasting plangent melodic fragments with quivering surroundings. The New Juilliard Ensemble in a Harrison Birtwistle Premiere 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z I especially loved her dreamy performance of “On a Turquoise Cloud,” a vocalise in which the singer’s “ah” sounds are cushioned by Ellington’s plangent harmonies in the orchestra. Music Review: A Celebration With a Clock Ticking 2011-05-06T22:32:39Z After intermission, Goode created an alternately plangent and subdued atmosphere in Leos Janacek’s suite “In the Mists,” with a deliberately economic tonal and dynamic palette. Review | Pianist Richard Goode plays a deeply satisfying concert at U-Md. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z While Wave works with a wide range of producers, they’ve collectively honed a signature sound that suits Wave perfectly — most songs begin with lush and contemplative piano, a plangent and melancholy guitar, or both. Rod Wave Sings Through the Pain 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The songs are plangent and irony-free, and so is the movie. About Time: Richard Curtis’ Love, Repeatedly 2013-10-31T16:07:04Z The melody is sweetly ornamented, with bright rivulets of harpsichord, as Hope narrates the plangent letters, full of existential angst, she writes to pop divas like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. Review: In ‘You Us We All,’ a Symbolic Hope Writes to Pop Divas 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Those experiences appear to be the subject of “She’s Mine, Pt. 1” and “She’s Mine, Pt. 2,” a pair of beautifully plangent songs here. Review: The Only Big Name Here Is Still J. Cole’s 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Taylor’s 1983 work about soldiers on leave is set to Elgar’s Elegy and Serenade for Strings, but in the middle, that plangent music is replaced by the recorded cries of loons. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z The most affecting songs were those in which he sang, accompanying himself on the fiddle, as in Stephen Foster’s plangent “Hard Times Come Again No More.” Review: Civil War Songs of Memory and Loss, at Cooper Union 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Three weeks later, he was back on stage, giving one of the richest and most plangent performances of his life as the villain in the Globe's all-male adaptation of Richard III. Mark Rylance: 'You have to move into the chaos' 2013-07-01T06:30:01Z The album opener, Another Volunteer, is the kind of plangent affair that gives 80s-referencing indie rock a good name, with its gently insistent drums, lush bed of synths, and vocal pitched nicely. August's best new music from across the MAP 2011-08-17T17:09:56Z The vocal soloists were talented, particularly the countertenor Daniel Moody, his upper register as plangent as a clarinet’s in his Agnus Dei aria. Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum Perform a Mass 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z His melodies are direct and often plangent, his harmonies and rhythms sturdy and repetitious. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z His imps are an eight-piece orchestra who sway and jolt in the shadows and storms evoked by their plangent music. The Irrepressibles - review 2010-10-04T21:15:00Z He made movies which were shocking, scabrous and violent - yet also often hauntingly sad and plangently beautiful and sometimes just plain weird. Kim Ki-duk: punk-Buddhist shock, violence – and hypnotic beauty too 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Though he was announced at Monday’s performance as recovering from the flu, and had the wear in his tone and coughs to prove it, this invaluable tenor nevertheless sang Edgardo with plangent vigor. Review: In ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ at the Met, Singing Through Sickness 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Speaking from her home studio in London, a converted garden shed, she turned to that instrument to play a few plangent clusters of notes. How a Sooty Old Piano Helped Beth Orton Reach a New Creative Peak 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z You understand that you’ll come back to life only if you can summon the heroic resolve to carry on amid the most plangent heartbreak. REVIEW: If I Stay and Life After Beth: What If She's Not Dead? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z “His tone is sometimes plangently lyrical, sometimes sarcastically sharp,” Woolfe wrote. ‘A Vocal Figure Skater’ Makes His Mark as an Operatic Hamlet 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z It’s crucial to the conception of Katniss that most of the character’s more emotionally plangent scenes have been with other women, including her family, friends and other Hunger Games combatants. Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,’ Katniss’s Final Battle 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z He plays subtext beautifully in “Spiderhead,” with plangent notes of regret. Review: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and 'Top Gun' director unite for the good-enough 'Spiderhead' 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Then you have this very plangent, perpetual, constant simple question, which of course is not simple, and then the chaos grows and grows, and I thought, this is the moment we are living right now. With ‘Eden,’ Joyce DiDonato hopes to plant seeds of climate activism 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Generations have slow-danced at the end of discos to Head's plangent tenor, and the song still gets a regular airing on oldies radio shows. Murray Head: 'Unsung at home, but a hero in France' 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z That drive makes Kaepernick’s current lack of employment all the more plangent. Colin Kaepernick knew what he wanted in — and out — of his Netflix biopic 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Less flashy than the coronation painting, its plangent rainbow of rich colors is more luxurious. Review: The Getty's must-see 14th century Venetian art and the mystery that lies within it 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z It is that, after 50-plus years, it does not need to carry with it all of those haunting defeats and those dispiriting setbacks and those plangent regrets. England Overcomes Germany, and Its Demons 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Where the documentary succeeds most plangently is in its fan testimonials of the album’s impact and Blige’s emotional recollections of the songs’ roots. Review: Determined women dig deep in four new documentaries 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z In times of contemplation, that can mean Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber or Edward Elgar’s “Nimrod,” compositions with a plangent feel. Perspective | For Memorial Day, the U.S. Army Field Band evokes feelings of love and loss 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z The American landscape, however, was no longer made up of trees and cows lowing plangently at dusk. Review: Was Andy Warhol a saint or scourge, genius or dolt? A new biography befits a great life 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z His voice, a plangent, plummy thing, is like an artificial-intelligence simulacrum of how the upper classes spoke in Edwardian England. How Brexit Will End 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z I asked Gabriel what emotions he felt listening to Niall’s “Down By the C,” a two-minute composition both simple and plangent. A Georgia teen recorded a song in memory of a Marine he never knew - The Washington Post 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, those pungent, plangent, sweet-and-sour Matthews melodies refuse to evaporate completely. Opinion | After a long, strange trip . . . all your indie faves sound like jam bands now 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z This is Statovci’s writing at its best, longing and rage compressed in a single sentence at once sweepingly plangent and rooted in granular detail. The Story of a Queer European Refugee Who Insists on Self-Invention 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z And suddenly at noon the call to prayer arises, whose plangent cadence, relayed from minaret to minaret, had entranced me all those years ago. Back in the city I loved a lifetime ago 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z The film, in tune with its title, is rich in emotional tact, and plangent to a fault; such harshness as it can muster is supplied by the redoubtable Nixon. At Home with Emily Dickinson 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Dusk, and from the churchyard of Saint Alphonse came the plangent harmonies of one of the best known choral works of the Catholic church. 'We've had enough': Kinshasa holds its breath amid talks to end violence 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Wielding brushes, Thomas eschewed the group’s signal technique of working strictly with stains of liquid paint on raw canvas, proving it inessential to an ordered glory of plangent hues. Alma Thomas’s Late Blooms 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z The layers of guitar and processed voice never settle into something as soothing as the plangent ripple of "Replica" or the synth museum tour of 2009's "Rifts." Dan Lopatin doesn't just push boundaries with Oneohtrix Point Never, he tramples them 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The three plangent edifices that constitute the last of Little Syria sit awkwardly in the shadows of sleek hotels that have sprouted around Ground Zero, glistening mushrooms after a horrible rain. Little Syria, Little Known But it is Mr Root who asked the most plangent question: "What is this, the School of Low Expectations Banking?" Banking: the school of low expectations 2012-07-22T19:48:15Z Another 32 percent of the country listened to the plangent tones of radio commentators posted in the Abbey and watching the procession. The Greatest Day of Her Life 2012-05-28T05:00:00Z And so, after their 1-0 win, Zambia head on to Libreville, a city that, for them, stands as plangent as any in the annals of tragedy. Africa Cup of Nations 2012: Zambia book date with destiny 2012-02-09T14:47:35Z The plangent roar of the city was painful to his ears, which had always been attuned to the deep silences of forest and lake. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z But I am not plangent—one must take the thick with the thin—and I have such possibilities of another and better sort before me. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Because Whitehead’s prose is witty, plangent and complex all at once, his meanings tend to hover for a minute before they sink in -- a potentially deadly lag in an action genre. Hungry Zombies From Human Resources Snack on New Yorkers: Books 2011-11-16T08:19:29Z Breaking the desultory midnight peace With plangent call, to cry 'Division'! Verse and Worse 2011-07-12T02:00:34.607Z The short lines and harping burdens of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s songs show the revival, not only of a love-poetry more plangent than anything in English since Verse to 1580. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Here, more than perhaps in any other poem, Moore has fixed in his words that plangent quality of voice, by which a hundred times he moved listeners to tears. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z On ascending notes of the most plangent desire the souls of the listeners were drawn far beyond the capacity of their own artistic revelation. Sinister Street, vol. 2 His song is sometimes in a minor key, plangent and piercing; sometimes in a large and virile major,—as for instance when he sings the 'War-song of Gamelba.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII He began the opening movement as he finished speaking, a wild, monotonous, plangent cadence, like the rhythmic beat of surf on a rocky coast. Shadows of Flames A Novel I hear the plangent forest beat The tempest with long blatant moans As of despair, defeat. One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue After any stress of emotion, the plangent quality of his own voice in singing tended to produce one of these outbursts, when it seemed as if his chest must burst under the strain. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z Geraldine Farrar has always been a self-willed young woman with a plangent ambition and a belief in her own future which has been proved justifiable by the chronological unfolding of her stage career. Interpreters But the nice boy had never lived and never would live with anybody on such terms, and his clear young voice lacked the plangent irony of the battered idealist. Command It has, more than any others of his verses, lyric rather than plangent quality. Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today I knew it!” and the shrill voice rose to a plangent pitch again. Officer 666 Her voice held the plangent sweetness of her instrument, with additional overtones of mockery. Sjambak From his stivy cellar he issues forth into the plashing, plangent currents of city life. The Book of Khalid A song fours down from the skies, a plangent song of triumph from the Moon. The Masque of the Elements Then from a point in the south came that warning, plangent cry of the evil bird. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The odd plangent certitude in his voice penetrated her. The Lost Girl That brisk April air seems somehow in key with the mood of the Avenue—hard, plangent, glittering, intensely material. Pipefuls He roamed about the woods, he passed precious hours upon the shore, his mind plangent like the wave. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure It was like a night in a dream, like some vast wheeling chimera of fever—that plangent sea before, those terrors fleeing, and behind, a maiden left with her duenna in a castle demoniac. Doom Castle All my boyhood, from far vernal Bourns of being, came to me Dream-like, plangent, and eternal Memories of the plunging sea. Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea Madame's voice was a little plaintive and plangent now, like a bronze reed mournfully vibrating. The Lost Girl She was as far removed from the plangent reverie of Rousseau as from the savage truculence of Swift. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot She drooped, she seemed about to fall, but joy was a bright light on her face, and she answered loudly, plangently: "Then I shall not be afraid!" The Judge This mortal surge That beats against us now is nothing else Than plangent ignorance. Children of the Night To scorn all strife, and to view all life With the curious eyes of a child; From the plangent sea to the prairie, From the slum to the heart of the Wild. Rhymes of a Rolling Stone There was a sad, plangent note in his voice. The Lost Girl Adelaida is plump, and her voice has just that moist, plangent strength which gives one a real voluptuous thrill. Twilight in Italy There is a wistful strained, plangent pathos in the tune; but beneath those masterly old hands it cried softly and bitterly the solitude and desperate estrangement of the world. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 With plangent strokes of pain and loss The hammers on the iron beat. A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 Sleep, sweeter than love's face or home; And death's immutability; And music of the plangent foam, For me! Poems The bell on the orthodox church called the members of Mr. Peck's society together for the business meeting with the same plangent, lacerant note that summoned them to worship on Sundays. Annie Kilburn : a Novel My heart begins to swell like a bud under the plangent rain. Twilight in Italy When, however, the organ was for a while superseded and the violas and violins quivered under the plangent melody of Palestrina, our roving attention was fixed and held. A Wanderer in Florence The very breath of the volcano seems to fan your cheek, and the hollow roar has become near and plangent. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough Music, plangent and unobtrusive, drifted down through far corridors—his chair, feathered and curved insidiously to his back, seemed to engulf and overpower him as he drank his first glass of port. Tales of the Jazz Age And difficult it is to interpret with all its plangent lyric freedom. Chopin : the Man and His Music But it is difficult to discern in all this what his endless and plangent melancholy was concerned with. Where No Fear Was For the bells did the work of arousing curiosity; they tolled plangently into the night. South Wind Or, again, the call may come as plangent and insistent as the stroke of a fire-alarm; the whole community hears and instantly understands; the murder is out. The Gates of Chance He knew the strain that was in her, got from her brilliant and rather plangent grandfather. The Judgment House They dropped swiftly down, and in the outskirts overtook a belated bullock-cart, whose ungreased axle was arousing the hillside echoes with its plangent wail. The Snare His plangent brag was lost in a sound seldom heard on the hither side of jungle or zoo. Further Adventures of Lad With the plangently useless iterations of a Greek chorus, the tale was flung at him, piecemeal and in chunks, and in a triple key. Bruce His Majesty spoke through the nose; snuffled his speech in an earnest ominously plangent manner. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 Ah! that full, deep voice, charged with plangent vibration, was the voice of one who had suffered indeed. A Woman of Thirty And now, a solemn and plangent token of Oxford's perpetuity, the first stroke of Great Tom sounded. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story |
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