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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.
—Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
Needless to say, Murray’s threnody for Europe is as fundamentally incoherent as its late-19th-century originals.
—Pankaj Mishra, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
Threnody in X (FTF), Soda Pop (FTF), Corn Hives (FTF), Facts (FTF),
—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
Needless to say, Murray’s threnody for Europe is as fundamentally incoherent as its late-19th-century originals.
—Pankaj Mishra, New York Times, 14 Sep. 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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Perfectionism often gets misunderstood as an unstoppable striving for excellence, a quality that many of us would love to (half-heartedly) lament.—
Caroline Mimbs Nyce,
New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2025
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Not least, Mailman is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal—for the cultural twilight of the Halloween job: those occupations, such as police officer, firefighter, Marine, and, yes, postal worker, whose worth is not measured first and foremost in dollars but in public esteem.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Much of the chapter is like an elegy to what would be lost.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Vo’s ongoing examination of empire and identity unfolds here as both monument and elegy.—
Nel-Olivia Waga,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
Noun
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Wylde seemed right at home recreating the droning opening dirge as the band slowed down into a stellar stoney groove throughout a standout moment Saturday night.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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As Black Sabbath’s doomsayer-in-chief, Osbourne could summon a true sense of terror in his keening cries in a way that heightened the band’s muscular dirges.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
22 July 2025
Noun
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Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.—
Megan Thomas,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
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Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul. Column Unwritten Recipes Chantal Braganza Anyone who’s lived long enough to learn to feed themselves likely has some kind of biographical dish.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Threnody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/threnody. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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