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Examples of dirge
dirge
Many numbers are comic, including a dirge for the death of someone no one laments.
From the post-gazette.com
Gary Numan's classic dirge, Cars, is the first track available on the website.
From the newscientist.com
No funeral dirge was playing in the background, but it might have been appropriate.
From the toledoblade.com
There's only one and it spends its life on a thankless PR dirge around the country?
From the hecklerspray.com
As is her ability to drive a tough, moral narrative into a compelling dirge.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It was Buddhist funeral music-a dissonant dirge cascading from the darkness.
From the time.com
Yet it would be quite wrong to think of The Taking of Miss Janie as a dirge.
From the time.com
Our National Anthem is an awful boring dirge that couldn't inspire anybody.
From the expressandstar.com
Even as the dirge continued from Capitol Hill, there were glimmers of hope from Libya.
From the battleland.blogs.time.com
- A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
- A dirge is a sombre song expressing mourning or grief, such as would be appropriate for performance at a funeral. ...
- Dirge is a French band formed in 1994. From the industrial metal genre that exploded in the first part of the 90s, the band slowly evolved toward a more atmospheric and progressive form of metal, related to post-metal bands such as Neurosis, Isis, and Cult Of Luna.
- Dirge (2000) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The full title is sometimes shown as Dirge: Book Two of The Founding of the Commonwealth.
- Dirge is the name of several different fictional characters from the Transformers series.
- A Dirge is a poem composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was published by his wife, Mary Shelley, in 1824.
- A piece that is performed at a funeral or memorial service.
- A brief funeral hymn or song. An example is Henry King's Exequy.
- A song of lament, usually of a lyrical mood. The name derives from the beginning of the antiphon of the Office of the Dead: Dirige, Domine... 'Direct, O Lord... ...
