plangent bells. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A guitar plangent through tropical dusk or in an Arctic hut. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
The gestures are quiet, the steps contained, the mood plangent. From Wordnik.com. [Pulling Itself Together, ABT Celebrates Tudor Centenary] Reference
From somewhere backstage a single plangent sound rang out and faded. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
"Tomorrow we go our way," said Vang Drosset in a plangent, fateful voice. From Wordnik.com. [Trullion: Alastor 2262]
His plangent, slightly reedy voice couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
From behind the screen in the corner there rang out a single, plangent note. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
Well, no plangent chord -- the expressions on the two actors' faces sufficed. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare-like] Reference
The plangent opening strings transported me immediately into the mood of the song. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman I Was Born to Be] Reference
The note of insistence was plangent, almost pitiable, but it meant less than it said. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: The Honor of Alberto Gonzales] Reference
The bells began to ring out for evensong, the plangent tones echoing across the cobbles. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
She could virtually hear wheels, hoofs, feet, raucous voices, snatches of plangent music. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
The first heavy, plangent drop of rain smashed onto the marble ledge that faced the river. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
Her distinctive voice is both plangent and wry, and her imagination encompasses many worlds. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Love: Summary and book reviews of The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.] Reference
Outside, a komuso with a reed basket over his head played his bamboo flute in plangent fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
Chanting a plangent tune, he directed his reluctant rowers in pursuit of the retreating mini-whale. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
He roamed about the woods, he passed precious hours upon the shore, his mind plangent like the wave. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Brudda Iz had the sweetest voice imaginable and could sing in the most plangent falsetto, Peewee said. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
A familiar old ballad was suddenly transformed into a plangent elegy for the innocence we had all lost. From Wordnik.com. [“The Fantasticks” was a fantastic investment] Reference
Ah! that full, deep voice, charged with plangent vibration, was the voice of one who had suffered indeed. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman of Thirty] Reference
'Richly evocative of the countryside, plangent and mischievous ... fox-hunting as it was in the years 1900-1902.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Confessions] Reference
Thus lost in the Void, her mind heard again the plangent double notes of the bamboo flute, elongated and sorrowful. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
Music oozed out of the walls, gentle and plangent; the kind of music that made you ache inside and hate yourself for it. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamfall]
When Steiner jumps he is shown in slow motion, accompanied by the plangent, minimal music of Florian Fricke's band Popol Vuh. From Wordnik.com. [Werner Herzog, the adventurous spirit] Reference
The dark blue of night was standing in the tree clumps, and the plangent fragrance of the river drifted up the terraced slopes. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
The plangent wind melodies early in the second movement came over beautifully; the whole orchestra played with unflagging spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Prom 1 BBCSO/Belohlavek] Reference
At a time when plangent cries for another Tim have (thank goodness) faded from our TV screens, that's rather cheering to remember. From Wordnik.com. [Christina Patterson: Three Cheers for Democracy and the World Wide Web] Reference
There fell a hush, and out of it, as loud as judgment, the Voice of the Walls cried its plangent warning five times before it ceased. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
There were sudden, plangent twangings as if giant fingers had plucked at the ribbon somewhere along its thousands of taut kilometres. From Wordnik.com. [The Songs of Distant Earth]
Even Gerry Kelley - who bombed the Old Bailey in 1973 - issued a tender, plangent plea for Catholics with information to come forward. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: Northern Ireland Needs Its Own Version of "Brown vs The Board of Education" - and Fast] Reference
In this and many ways, Moving Pictures is a plangent and honest book, rendered all the more affecting by its modulation and detachment. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of Paramount] Reference
If you're not, plangent entries on a British blog 4,000 miles from the action in Denver, are not going to make the earth move for anyone. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
They are intimidating touchstones; tonight, hearing Rose's siren vocals wrapped around plangent steel-pedal guitar, they don't sound far-fetched. From Wordnik.com. [Caitlin Rose] Reference
The orchestra continued in a similarly vigorous vein; oboist Marc Schachman shone in the plangent solo that dominates the slow movement. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
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