threnody

• Not the least touching is Luigi's own threnody, which starts upon this note Idol mio, che la tua leggiadra spoglia   Mi lasciasti anzi tempo. —  The Life of Michelangelo Buonarotti
• Now, as he put a hand on her shoulder, she felt a horrid premonition that the excuse would run like a threnody of unhappiness through her marriage. —  Title here
• And Sam Mendes is to be congratulated for taking on a difficult project that makes a worthy continuation of the theme of high threnody running through —  DVD Times
• Tacita Dean's Kodak (2006), a poker-faced threnody that memorializes the last days in the factory in France where Dean's preferred film stock was made, or —  artforum.com
• One wonders how he might have tackled a commission to write a threnody for it, to be set to music by one of Klaus Krank's hotchpotch collection of composers, each outdoing the others in misanthropy and general grumpiness. —  Hooting Yard

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