plangently

“The presence on an upper level of three lady cellists, plangently accompanying the action, is no compensation.”

The Guardian: Macbeth - review

“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

“The President stood up, made the sign of the T and, switching on the synthetic music, let loose the soft indefatigable beating of drums and a choir of instruments–near-wind and super-string–that plangently repeated and repeated the brief and unescapably haunting melody of the first Solidarity Hymn.”

Brave New World

“For the bells did the work of arousing curiosity; they tolled plangently into the night.”

South Wind

“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

“It is Carlo Carrà turning his back on the vim of futurism in favour of the plangently atmospheric, such as his painting of beach huts on a darkening shore, a red crisis gathering in the wind-whipped sky.”

The Guardian World News

“She also plangently dramatizes the persistence of memory by showing Tessa interacting with younger visions of herself as well as reaching out to her deceased mother.”

Chicago Reader