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  • n  a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

  • From the ludic raptures of "Feathers" to the slow-building threnody of "Cells That Smell Sounds" they span the spectrum of light and dark.
  • But my toaster doesn't offer the tantalizing music of Pynchon's voice, with its shifts from comic shtick to heartbroken threnody, its mordant Faulkneresque interludes, its gusts of .
  • The Passion of the Christ is a one-note threnody about the Son of God being dragged to his death.
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  • Krzysztof Penderecki in LAist (blog)
    In 1964, Penderecki wrote: "Let the Threnody express my firm belief that the sacrifice of Hiroshima will never be forgotten and lost."
  • Michiko Kakutani in Dallas Morning News
    Although his books can be uproariously, laugh-out-loud funny, a dark threnody of sadness and despair also runs through Wallace's work,Ms. Kakutani wrote. "He said in one interview that he set out with Infinite Jest 'to do something sad,'...

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