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Recent Examples of dirge
The most powerful moments of this dirge-like film immediately follow the execution.
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
When the relatives begin to arrive, crawling in on their knees, droning a dirge about death, Shula promptly departs for a hotel, pink suitcase in tow.
—Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
On the final night, one of the regulars hired a Scotsman in a kilt to play a bagpipe dirge.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Ethel Cain: Perverts [Daughters of Cain] Ethel Cain found unlikely pop fandom with Preacher’s Daughter, her 2022 debut album, thanks to its emotional dirges and heavy lyrics.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 10 Jan. 2025
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
When the relatives begin to arrive, crawling in on their knees, droning a dirge about death, Shula promptly departs for a hotel, pink suitcase in tow.
—Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
On the final night, one of the regulars hired a Scotsman in a kilt to play a bagpipe dirge.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Ethel Cain: Perverts [Daughters of Cain] Ethel Cain found unlikely pop fandom with Preacher’s Daughter, her 2022 debut album, thanks to its emotional dirges and heavy lyrics.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dirge
Noun
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My own experience and reality invalidated and denied, which in her heart today would be a very painful lament.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2025
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This episode was just like that, a lot of quick dancing, jazz hands, and even a lament sung by Shauhin, just for the most boring and obvious thing to happen in the end.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
8 May 2025
Noun
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It’s remained in the company’s repertoire for decades, and the use of Coltrane’s elegy for the love of her life has made that music into two dirges, one for husband John Coltrane and another for the woman on the invisible mourner’s bench honoring and channeling him for the rest of her days.—
Harmony Holiday,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Lucas’s final film is a kind of elegy for an entire style of personal blockbuster filmmaking, Williams’ funeral music in the last moments fitting for the director’s last moments behind the camera.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
28 Apr. 2025
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The album thematically focuses on the idea of the afterlife in both a literal and figurative sense, with a touch of Carlile's anecdotal songwriting and requiems for artists' past.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Whether a requiem is due for rom-coms or not, in the meantime there's at least a conveyor belt of cringe to feast upon.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Dirge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirge. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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