What is "plangent"

Usage examples of "plangent".

Perched on rooftops, musicians gave them plangent marches out of primitive instruments, drums, horns, gongs, bagpipes, many-stringed guitars.

Around the blaze, couples had begun a stamping ring-dance, to the music of a lame guitarist, a hunchbacked drummer, and a blind man who sang in plangent Haisun.

Ryan could catch the susurration of a tinkling harpsichord, delicate, plangent notes.

This mortal surge That beats against us now is nothing else Than plangent ignorance.

Sush, with Rlys pressed against him on one side and Skasja on the other, bent his head over his lute and drew forth a series of plangent chords.

A band was playing in the distance, the music sweet and plangent in the warm summer darkness.

The first heavy, plangent drop of rain smashed onto the marble ledge that faced the river.

For all its black slapstick, however, the genre has a plangent undertow.

From the plangent sea to the prairie, From the slum to the heart of the Wild.

To return to his homeland and play out his days meditating in one of the plangent seaside grottoes of the tumultuous Cape of Murato.

One evening, camped at the edge of a deep wood, Tristran heard something he had never heard before: a beautiful melody, plangent and strange.

They gave out one note, so plangent, blood-freezing and alluring, that for a few seconds the company stood as if petrified.

Jak said, his voice stretched and plangent, coming from some other dimension.

The Phanes were as entrancing as ever, bending, twisting, swaying to plangent chords of the lute, fluttering their fingers as if feeling for raindrops, crouching suddenly, gliding, then springing upright straight as wands, finally bowing and skipping from the platform.

Instantly she is replaced on the jumbo tube by Marilyn Manson, a flamboyant metalhead whose plangent ode to masochism puts an inexplicable bounce in my step.