plangency

With young artists looking back nostalgically on the 1960's and 70's, the cross-generational issue has a kind of plangency.

The metal gave the blown notes a semi-sad plangency that was unique to this instrument.

Undeniable plangency gave weight to his tone, his years of experience rising as they rarely did even at such times.

I was still brimming with plangency, chockful of feeling, when I arrived back at the hotel.

Its voice was perfectly intelligible, but it had a noticeable plangency as though its vocal cords were metal.

Philippe Rouillon seemed slightly miscast as Mephistopheles, producing beautiful sounds but lacking the needed plangency at the bottom and any sense of real menace.

But the dreamlike second section was as affecting as ever in the stillness and slow sweep of bodies with which the choreographer meets the piano's simple plangency.

Each scene is powerful and evocative, but it is played out in a single register - one of nostalgic regret - that, for all its plangency, becomes monotonous.

His rhythms are tense and urgent, his phrasing stylized in emphasis, his tone kaleidoscopic but favouring the plangency that non-Iberian players reserve for special effect."

In his obituary piece, Ion Vinea described the "dreamer's verse" contributed by Iacobescu as complimenting "the fastidious and strange plangency" of Minulescu's work.

(The latter is no small consideration; as vividly as one recalls the plangency of Franco Corelli's voice in the role, one also recalls his stick-figure acting.)

Moreover, they sang in exquisite blend and balance, making their parts chime with or ring against one another with particular clarity, force and plangency in the church's atmospheric acoustic.

Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly described the song as recalling the "whacked-out plangency of Midwestern lo-fi heroes Guided By Voices."

Mr. Botha cut an unprepossessing figure onstage and lacked much in subtlety, but he sang the demanding role of Florestan with easy strength, unforced plangency and considerable tonal beauty.

Scriabin was Chekhov's contemporary and thematic opposite, the composer's sensuousness and volatility in direct contrast to the writer's plangency: Scriabin the mystic, Chekhov the social realist.

William Parker takes on some of the baritone material with unabashed lyricism and plangency, leaving Elly Ameling to bring refreshing charm and beauty of tone to the soprano Mélodies.

Gifted with a shining, spinto instrument, Kónya had an easy top register placing him the category known as "jugendlicher heldentenor" while affording him the full plangency of the Italian roles as well.

(This harmony of agriculture and lifestyle is somewhat different from what may be the true agricultural history of California as set out with such plangency by Joan Didion in "Where I Was From" (2003).

But then Callas sought to capture in her singing not just beauty but a whole humanity, and within her system, the flaws feed the feeling, the sour plangency and the strident defiance becoming aspects of the canto.

Newsweek writes that White reads the story "without artifice and with a mellow charm," and that "White also has a plangency that will make you weep, so don't listen (at least, not to the sad parts) while driving."

The series of pas de deux between the warring lovers portrayed by Mr. Roberts and Ms. Parkinson now chart their evolving romance with a plangency that is often breathtaking as much for its dramatic power as its eye-popping physical exertions.

With boyish glee and macho bravura, with diffidence and irony, with lost-soul plangency and bursts of passion, he squired some of the great divas of cinema: Catherine Deneuve, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti, Jeanne Moreau.

It's the kind of material that usually resists being turned into fiction, as if the aesthetics of the contemporary novel wilt, touching up against the terrible live wires of contemporary global politics and suffering; it's so easy for the writing to fall into falsity or moral plangency.

(Sinagra) WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY (Tomorrow) This eclectic, cacophonous indie collective theatrically conjures oompah-pop plangency, creating a kind of industrial mazurka fanfare.

In so doing he became a symbol of the age, and his poetry became its echoing music - with its brooding grandeur as well as its bleakness, its plangency as well as its ellipses, its rhythmical strength as well as its theatrical equivocations.