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- adverb In a
plangent manner: with a loud reverberating sound, or plaintively.
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Examples
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The presence on an upper level of three lady cellists, plangently accompanying the action, is no compensation.
Macbeth - review 2011
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She drooped, she seemed about to fall, but joy was a bright light on her face, and she answered loudly, plangently: "Then I shall not be afraid!"
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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The President stood up, made the sign of the T and, switching on the synthetic music, let loose the soft indefatigable beating of drums and a choir of instrumentsnear-wind and super-stringthat plangently repeated and repeated the brief and unescapably haunting melody of the first Solidarity Hymn.
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932
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For the bells did the work of arousing curiosity; they tolled plangently into the night.
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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With the plangently useless iterations of a Greek chorus, the tale was flung at him, piecemeal and in chunks, and in a triple key.
Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907
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It is Carlo Carrà turning his back on the vim of futurism in favour of the plangently atmospheric, such as his painting of beach huts on a darkening shore, a red crisis gathering in the wind-whipped sky.
The Guardian World News Laura Cumming 2011
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She also plangently dramatizes the persistence of memory by showing Tessa interacting with younger visions of herself as well as reaching out to her deceased mother.
Chicago Reader 2010
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