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Recent Examples of threnody
His diary shrank to a litany of suffering and a threnody for what might have been.
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Sara Wheeler,
WSJ,
25 Oct. 2018
Most critics acknowledged the score’s beautiful moments, especially Cleopatra’s death scene, in which the character’s plaintive lyrical lines are capped by a chilling choral threnody.
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Anthony Tommasini,
New York Times,
22 Dec. 2017
Threnody in X (FTF), Soda Pop (FTF), Corn Hives (FTF), Facts (FTF),
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Sophie Brown,
WIRED,
9 Aug. 2011
Sara Wheeler,
WSJ,
25 Oct. 2018
Most critics acknowledged the score’s beautiful moments, especially Cleopatra’s death scene, in which the character’s plaintive lyrical lines are capped by a chilling choral threnody.
—
Anthony Tommasini,
New York Times,
22 Dec. 2017
Threnody in X (FTF), Soda Pop (FTF), Corn Hives (FTF), Facts (FTF),
—
Sophie Brown,
WIRED,
9 Aug. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for threnody
Noun
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Every entrepreneur in an emerging market knows the lament about brain drain — the people and the capital that leave for richer markets, treated as a pure loss to mourn.
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His one big lament was missing a 4-foot birdie putt on the final hole.
Noun
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Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
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The film uses one man’s late life as an elegy for a disappearing Canarian way of being, its rituals, its rootedness, its relationship to the land.
Noun
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Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
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The already dirge-like film downshifts further, towards a more pleasant state of repose, as Robin convalesces.
Noun
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The reason for the requiem Pulse was an Orlando gay bar where, on June 12, 2016, gunman Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded another 58.
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The biggest difference is probably how Laurie plays the final requiem.
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“Threnody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/threnody. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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