threnodic

It was such a bouquet of threnodic roses as a mute might carry at a funeral.

The pairing makes eminent good sense; these quartets were composed two years apart and share a similar threnodic minor-key palette.

Rudford considered the remark disgusting, but Lida Louise's threnodic eyes picked it up and looked away with it.

For instance, the death of Ghanashyam is, frankly, anticlimactic with most of the emphasis thrown onto the lovely succeeding threnodic dance.

Mr. Soyinka's staging of "Death and the King's Horseman" - nearly as static and more incompetently performed -eviscerates a work that could well offer some of the "threnodic essence" the author's note describes.