monody

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Noun
  • Works of art have particular shapes (three-minute pop songs, three-act plays) and particular moods and tones (comic, tragic, romantic, elegiac).
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Harmony Holiday’s elegy/essay for D’Angelo is a stunning piece of writing.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At first a dirge, then the tempo rises, and the hymnal swells.
    Jenny Adams, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Further down the lineup, Friday has Bieber collaborator and indie fave Dijon alongside the melodic dirges of Ethel Cain.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Crafted out of recyclable and renewable materials, they’re boosted with a Cloudfoam Comfort sockliner, flaunt a suede upper that taps into one of fall 2025’s most desirable materials, and have attractive perforations as part of the design.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • All the wines in the bar’s more than 20 taps are from Revolution’s own label, made just steps from the dining room.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Monody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monody. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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