adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Doubtless there are grizzled old dead-heads who got sober listening to the plangent harmonies of Dark Star.
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Entering St Petersburg Conservatory at 13, he shocked his professors with his angular harmonies, jagged rhythms and plangent colours.
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Francie made a final plangent chord and took the fiddle from under his chin.
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The altered states, the plangent electronic keyboards, and her use of Biblical text all conspire to create a portentous sound.
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Then came the quiet plangent sound of a harpsichord.