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Example sentences for: threnody

How can you use “threnody” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

"I wrote Threnody thinking only about structure [and] architecture," Penderecki once said.
Penderecki's Threnody is a good example.
Berio, accompanied by technicians from Centro Tempo Reale, his electronic-music headquarters in Florence, and the Orchestra della Toscana, performed his work-in-perpetual-progress, Ofanim . The following week, Penderecki conducted a New York Philharmonic performance of Threnody and gave the New York premiere of a recent symphony-- No.
Threnody is expressive in spite of itself.
A third-rate mystery tricked out with a great cast and some tony cinematography, the movie unspools like an elderly director's swan song--a bitter, late-Romantic threnody for the lost integrity of an American archetype, co-opted by the evils of a shabbily materialistic culture.