dirgelike

The first seven are dirgelike works developed from a single motive.

The words went around and around, dirgelike, in his head.

The look of the valley was primordial, the music slow and dirgelike.

She watched, fascinated, as the strange little dirgelike tune came to her ears.

Indeed, many Laundromats have diversified to turn the dirgelike chore into a day out.

What sad dirgelike associations the word dredged up in the poet's unconscious.

On stage, Slava squeezed from his saxophone a sweet, dirgelike blues.

The background tape for Shrike's hold circuit was classical, somber and dirgelike.

Chest bare, he limps through the celebrated dirgelike chords of the second movement.

Children in yellow T-shirts and black pants made somber swaying motions to the dirgelike music.

A low whistle sounded over the intercom, a dirgelike tone which would reach every corner of the ship.

And then he began to chant, in a steady tone both dirgelike and defiant.

A dirgelike parade of dancers on all fours is poetic in its strangeness.

Buoyed up by that coffin, for almost one whole day and night, I floated on a soft and dirgelike main.

Instead of visual art, there is music: dirgelike organ works by Bach, resounding at considerable volume.

The 1937 John Ford movie is 77 minutes long, proceeding at what some children might feel is a dirgelike pace.

A chill wind stirred dead autumn leaves and whined a dirgelike song through the naked branches that rose above them.

It echoed dirgelike across the deserted countryside.

Resonant Choraii voices swelled into a dirgelike song, flooding the bridge with their music.

Teacher's note about the bogs has a haunting dirgelike quality: The bogs influence me strangely.

Amid the dirgelike chants of "Death to America!"

A dirgelike complication of muddy, red-spattered browns occupied a fourth of the wall.

Camilo Vila's direction is on the labored side - ponderous movement accompanied by dirgelike music.

A slide projection shows Stravinsky's original musical fragments, the flutes play a quiet, dirgelike tune.

Even the show's theme music, a driving beat overlaid on a dirgelike melody, distills the inherent ambiguities.