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- noun Plural form of
threnody .
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Examples
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The longest undertaking is a medley of Sweeney Todd threnodies -- "Not While I'm Around," "Joanna," "My Friends" -- that testifies to Buckley's appreciation for Stephen Sondheim.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Betty Buckley Goes for Men in a Big-Hearted Feinstein's at Loews Regency Way David Finkle 2011
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The longest undertaking is a medley of Sweeney Todd threnodies -- "Not While I'm Around," "Joanna," "My Friends" -- that testifies to Buckley's appreciation for Stephen Sondheim.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Betty Buckley Goes for Men in a Big-Hearted Feinstein's at Loews Regency Way David Finkle 2011
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The longest undertaking is a medley of Sweeney Todd threnodies -- "Not While I'm Around," "Joanna," "My Friends" -- that testifies to Buckley's appreciation for Stephen Sondheim.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Betty Buckley Goes for Men in a Big-Hearted Feinstein's at Loews Regency Way David Finkle 2011
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The longest undertaking is a medley of Sweeney Todd threnodies -- "Not While I'm Around," "Joanna," "My Friends" -- that testifies to Buckley's appreciation for Stephen Sondheim.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Betty Buckley Goes for Men in a Big-Hearted Feinstein's at Loews Regency Way David Finkle 2011
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The longest undertaking is a medley of Sweeney Todd threnodies -- "Not While I'm Around," "Joanna," "My Friends" -- that testifies to Buckley's appreciation for Stephen Sondheim.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Betty Buckley Goes for Men in a Big-Hearted Feinstein's at Loews Regency Way David Finkle 2011
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These were all admirable, carefully made recordings, but the peak moment of the three men's collaboration was the very fine Someday You'll Have These Blues (1977), which exhibited Phillip Walker's skill with material as diverse as the soul standards Part Time Love and Breakin 'Up Somebody's Home and down-in-the-alley threnodies such as Beaumont Blues and El Paso Blues.
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He's Mr Tambourine Man but McCain is the full orchestral suite, from Sousa marches to threnodies.
Bill Kristol on the Saddleback Forum. Ann Althouse 2008
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I allude especially to the monorhyme, Rim continuat or tirade monorime, whose monotonous simplicity was preferred by the Troubadours for threnodies.
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They are the spirits, the low spirits and melancholy forebodings, of fallen souls that once in human shape night-walked the earth and did the deeds of darkness, now expiating their sins with their wailing hymns or threnodies in the scenery of their transgressions.
Walden 2004
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My mother watches the screen with the rapt attention of a child, captivated by the shadowy images and more often than not awash with tears at the first hint of sentiment as the sad threnodies of violins and cellos pour into the room like warm syrup.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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