He's Mr Tambourine Man but McCain is the full orchestral suite, from Sousa marches to threnodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Kristol on the Saddleback Forum.] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broken Music, A Memoir]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phillip Walker obituary] Reference

How it suggests all manner of poetic fancies and graceful threnodies!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ziska] Reference

But what about the threnodies being sung by unhappy conservatives themselves?.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Pilgrim Station; the old gentleman would keep his threnodies to himself after this.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Touch of Sun and Other Stories] Reference

'The Conquered Banner' and the mournful threnodies of Father Ryan were yielding place to songs of hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock] Reference

Ultimately, life is for him a pageant with intervals for sentimental threnodies and rhetorical declamation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

Hoarse rhythmic threnodies comes also from the throats of balladsingers; are sold on gray-white paper at a sou each.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

The threnodies are being prepared again-in the National Endowment for the Arts 'latest survey Are you familiar with the name Tracey Bloom?.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Singapore Sun Festival 2009: Asia's Leading Arts and Lifestyle Festival Opens Today!] Reference

We hadn't concluded the celebrations when his final curtain fell … I shed a tear on account of the threnodies that attended his transition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanguard] Reference

I wish I had space to print both these threnodies in full, but they are somewhat long, and I must beg my reader to find them in the printed works of Du Bellay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance] Reference

What wonder that their praises were sung in many loving though halting threnodies, in long-winded but tender eulogies, in labored anagrams, in quaintly spelled epitaphs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

They were like the negroes, who from their first transplantation from Africa to America had put their plaints and mystification in strange and affecting threnodies and runes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference

Then William Cullen Bryant -- meditative, serious, from first to last tending to threnodies -- his genius mainly lyrical -- when reading his pieces who could expect or ask for more magnificent ones than such as "The Battle-Field," and "A Forest Hymn"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

Milton in his great ode of 'Lycidas' does not depart from the Greek lines; and Shelley, lamenting Keats in his 'Adonaïs,' reverts still more closely to the first master, adding perhaps an element of artificiality one does not find in other threnodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

Harvard College was filled with bright young scholars, in whom her work awakened the keenest enthusiasm; who had insight enough to recognize her as the one shining example of poetic power in that generation, and who wrote innumerable elegies and threnodies on her life and work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne Bradstreet and Her Time] Reference

When a Puritan died his friends conspired in mournful concert, or labored individually and painfully, to bring forth as tributes of grief and respect, rhymed elegies, anagrams, epitaphs, acrostics, epicediums, and threnodies; and singularly enough, seemed to reserve for these gloomy tributes their sole attempt at facetiousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference

Mowbray is not enchanted by such threnodies of failure, though they are matters of inescapable fact and even the Celtic boss, who was extremely tight-lipped when he previewed tonight's game with the media, appeared to accept that the best his players can hope for is a performance and a result that will set them up for the weekend league visit of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

(a collection of Scottish salmon farmer's songs and 12th century Paraguayan tin-miner's threnodies) i.    From Wordnik.com.  [DISCOGRAPHY: Genesis, by Scott McMahan] Reference

Mowbray is not enchanted by such threnodies of failure - though they are matters of inescapable fact and he would not presumably object if the results formed a recitation of unbroken triumph - but even the manager, who was extremely tight-lipped when he previewed tonight's game with the written media, appeared to accept that the best his players can hope for is a performance and a result that will set them up for the weekend league visit of Aberdeen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

"He produced hymns and songs, penitential prayers, psalms, and threnodies, filled with hope and longing for a blessed future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Literature and Other Essays] Reference

The very winds to threnodies are wrought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgian Poetry 1913-15] Reference

In bewailing threnodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [War songs of the South ed.] Reference

Warm eulogies did many a staid New Englander write of his loving consort, eulogies in rhyme, and epitaphs, elegies, threnodies, epicediums, anagrams, acrostics, and pindarics, all speaking loudly of loving, "painful" care, if not of a spirit of poesy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference

Bryant pulsing the first interior verse-throbs of a mighty world -- bard of the river and the wood, ever conveying a taste of open air, with scents as from hayfields, grapes, birch-borders -- always lurkingly fond of threnodies -- beginning and ending his long career with chants of death, with here and there through all, poems, or passages of poems, touching the highest universal truths, enthusiasms, duties -- morals as grim and eternal, if not as stormy and fateful, as anything in Eschylus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference