dirgelike

Cash treats the song (which I'm only vaguely familiar with in its NINcarnation as a moaning anti-drug plaint about waste) as a kind of dirgelike meditation on the last, dying embers of life; the video shows archival footage of the Man In Black contrasted with the Dying King of today, surrounded by the wrack of the flood-ravaged (although the video brilliantly implies tragic, Ozymandian neglect) Cash Museum in Nashville.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2003

Which, unfortunately, never occurs in this puzzlingly lifeless play, presented with respectful, dirgelike portent by director Alexander Strain.

Theater review: Forum Theatre's dismal 'One Flea Spare' 2011

Nine musicians, clad in head-to-toe black, slowly walked onstage playing a dirgelike Just a Closer Walk With Thee.

Jackson honored at Essence Music Festival 2009

(Did shake my head at "Falling Slowly" though - how did a droning, dirgelike song with almost melody win again?)

Swell Season on Boing Boing Video Boing Boing 2009

In the competition for most doleful, Larson himself mentions the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 and several funeral marches and dirgelike hymns such as "Nearer My God to Thee."

Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010

In the competition for most doleful, Larson himself mentions the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 and several funeral marches and dirgelike hymns such as "Nearer My God to Thee."

Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010

He yanked out a knob and the music, a dirgelike stew of whistles, honks, and clanks, slowed down even more and went flat.

Stalling 2010

In university bookstores, they sell vote or die T shirts; in TV ads with dirgelike music, Bush and Kerry depict each other as avatars of peril.

THE NEXT FLORIDA 2007

The young men cranked a dirgelike song on their stereo praising Moqtada al-Sadr and shouted at residents to get off the streets.

Iraq's New Guns for Hire 2007

At his best with hyperearnest Creed-style rock numbers, he couldn't deliver a song that required the least bit of funk or humor, as he proved on Tuesday's Elvis night with a couple of plodding numbers including a dirgelike rendition of A Little Less Conversation.

American Idol Fails to Tinker with Taylor - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006