How To Use Funereal In A Sentence
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After the almost funereal beginning of the first movement, the clarinets introduce a lyric second theme, which is treated in the graceful manner of a siciliana.
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‘Mäander’ is an incredible, multi-layered sound world of 4 or 5 layers of clarinets that is atonal, arrhythmic, ominous, and funereal.
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She doesn't want you to spoil them by looking gloomy and funereal.
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Practice was a sullen affair, conducted with an almost funereal lack of enthusiasm.
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There are photographs of funereal stock-in-trade monumental grave sculptures — mostly limp angels with oversized wings.
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A dark, sometimes almost funereal, mood prevails.
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A prairie fire had swept away all traces of vegetation and there was a black, funereal mantle as far as the eye could reach in every direction.
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Practice was a sullen affair, conducted with an almost funereal lack of enthusiasm.
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The Reverend Jolly's voice was in fact not all that far from Fulton's own, but slowed to a funereal tempo and larded with the lugubriousness of a hired mourner.
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It was dusk and that just defined the dark, sombre, funereal feeling of the time.
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On nearing the lakes the creek assumes so dismal an appearance, and so funereal is the aspect of the dead scrub and dark tops of the "boree" (a kind of mulga), that one wonders that Gregory did not choose the name of
Spinifex and Sand
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Mourning the lack of opportunities which have thus far presented themselves, the funereal hue seems appropriate in the current Scottish footballing climate.
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A sardonic Scherzo follows, then a funereal passacaglia set in motion by ‘wrong-note’ chords on piano.
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The memorial halls and gardens of the Babaoshan crematorium in the grey suburbs of Beijing are the scene of a curious game of funereal politics this weekend as China mourns a lost reformer and the Communist party tries to forget him.
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Wasteland" (from A Frames 2) is a schizophrenic stomper with a funereal bass line, lots of jaunty tambourine, and lyrics that perfectly wed two senses of the word smoldering: "I want to watch the smoke rise/I want to look in your eyes/I want your hand in my hand/I want to walk the wasteland.
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Layers of moss and decay give a funereal quality to this weighty hall.
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It is a kind of living death; sitting in the auditorium and trying to affix your attention to the funereal pageant of dully unrewarding scenes and images is like having a kilo of wet cement injected into your skull.
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It was completed by 1700, becoming the home of the ‘dark, funereal Finches’.
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These days the Trace is a bitumen road, grass verges neatly manicured and mowed for mile after funereal mile.
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His work was a flaming call to arms; hers is resigned, melancholy, even funereal.
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Of course she had a death or two to report with the appropriately morbid funereal details but she absolutely waxed rhapsodic about the church renovation and expansion project for which she was the principal fundraiser and organizer.
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Other than some rather funereal markers on the courthouse lawn commemorating war dead, the Little Town had - still has - a complete art deficit.
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The readings of the first nocturn of Tenebrae are from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and have, in our rite, a special and distinctive "funereal" chant.
Tenebrae at Blackfriars Oxford
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The New Zealanders, appropriately garbed in funereal black, arrive next week to scatter the ashes.
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Jarmusch directs with a deadpan tone throughout, always at a slow, sometimes funereal pace, his humour full of whimsy and subversion but prone to moments of idiosyncrasy that slip towards pretension.
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He was brought down but not before he had lifted the crowd from a more funereal than cathedral atmosphere.
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His work was a flaming call to arms; hers is resigned, melancholy, even funereal.
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I recognised it as one of those forward emails, (you can read a lovingly reproduced version of it here, complete with funereal music) and I rolled my eyes.
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On nearing the lakes the creek assumes so dismal an appearance, and so funereal is the aspect of the dead scrub and dark tops of the "boree" (a kind of mulga), that one wonders that Gregory did not choose the name of
Spinifex and Sand
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Test matches unfolded at a funereal pace.
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Featuring a funereal organ line and a weak pulse of a drum beat, ‘Let It Die’ yields one of the album's stillest moments.
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It is part of the game, albeit a cynical one slowing the game to something approaching the funereal.
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The funereal pace of my own texting is infamous.
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Top hedge fund managers 'funereal' in midst of financial crisis
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My daughter and I went to a local largebox store yesterday, and the atmosphere was funereal because the HCR bill passed.
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Bleak, dismal, gloomy, dreary, funereal, somber: All of these adjectives could be used to describe the new album by Iceland's Sigur Ros.
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Suspended from a rod placed a little above eye level and by large heavy-looking rings, the curtain has a solemn, almost funereal effect.
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Later on, Lyn, Brie, Joe and Janelle go over to Harold's place, where funereal choir music is playing as everyone marches in, white-faced, for cuppas.
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The company argued that the music was ‘suitable and had a sombre, funereal tone’.
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Jarmusch directs with a deadpan tone throughout, always at a slow, sometimes funereal pace, his humour full of whimsy and subversion but prone to moments of idiosyncrasy that slip towards pretension.
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Here's a weird thing; last week, I got a postcard addressed to Sasha, preprinted in funereal copperplate, with my name and some other details (venue, date) written in by hand, from a stonemasons in Edgware.
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It was a pageant of colour, in the midst of which the woman on trial, in her careful toilette, consisting of a black stammel gown, a cypress chaperon or black crêpe hood in the French fashion, relieved by touches of white in the cuffs and ruff of cobweb lawn, struck a funereal note.
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The Diplo-produced Beat of My Drum hinted at her leftfield ambitions; the slower, funereal I and the heartbreaking fame parable Sticks + Stones sounded grownup, introspective and happily odd.
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Further east is Diyarbakir, a sultry place, where groups of Kurds lurk on the street corners and the black basalt of the walls and the cobbles fill the alleys with its funereal tones.
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Later on, they go over to Harold's place, where funereal choir music is playing as everyone marches in, white-faced, for cuppas.
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In the funereal chill Vassily drew up a chair and poured us both a drink.
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The result could add up to a big bore, especially as director James Ivory refused to move things along at anything other than a funereal pace.
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This is primarily a period piece and, as you might expect from the elegiac nature of the film, the pace is appropriately funereal.
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When we got together I suggested it needed some New Orleans funeral music, half tongue-in-cheek, because their music is, well, you might say on the funereal side and they thought that was just ideal.
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He devoted days and nights to a kind of funereal bureaucracy, inevitable even under the fire of the enemy.
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The dancer has also been cast in a new ballet by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, which makes its premiere May 24, that she described as a weighty, funereal pas de deux with principle Marcelo Gomes.
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This is primarily a period piece and, as you might expect from the elegiac nature of the film, the pace is appropriately funereal.
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But what concerned me was their daughter, now free of her velvet cape and revealed in a white cotton dress smocked in unfunereal red.
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The elder brother, a long-legged stutterer whom they called Aristón in jest, was the most funereal fellow on the planet; he suffered from acute necromania; anything connected with coffins, corpses, wakes and candles roused his enthusiasm.
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Believing in literature means saying that the ghastly regime holding sway over your country is altogether insipid, compared to literature in all its funereal majesty.
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Aside from losing the opening hole of the morning round, Ilonen was never behind although he made heavy weather of pressing home his advantage in a final played at funereal pace.
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But even as ‘Reservations’ winds down, what might have been a three-minute song stretches out to seven minutes of quiet, solemn, funereal feedback and synth wash with a grand piano comping widely spaced minor chords.
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While puzzling over this funereal oddment, the movement of something overhead pulls his focus.
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That would certainly explain the funereal tones in which his injury was discussed yesterday.
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Fanfare sounds erupt over funereal pulses broken into by choppy keyboard figures.
1982: Pintura – review
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Matters aren't helped by the fact that the songs drift by at the same funereal pace.
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The readings of the first nocturn of Tenebrae are from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and have, in our rite, a special and distinctive "funereal" chant.
Tenebrae at Blackfriars Oxford
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Much like a requiem, the mood is mournful, even funereal, and the work includes passages one could label classical and minimalist.
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As an Aussie, despite the funereal attitude of most cricket fans here, I enjoyed seeing England play the pants of our team.
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It was dusk and that just defined the dark, sombre, funereal feeling of the time.
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And why the funereal pace?
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Dr.maworks staff sifted through several hundred resumes and head shots provided by a New York casting clearinghouse in quest of an actor possessing the mature, "funereal" quality Hayes wanted for Dr. Rank in A Doll's House.
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funereal gloom
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The Diplo-produced Beat of My Drum hinted at her leftfield ambitions; the slower, funereal I and the heartbreaking fame parable Sticks + Stones sounded grownup, introspective and happily odd.
Nicola Roberts: Cinderella's Eyes – review
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And as their coach and captain faced the first questions of a lengthy inquisition, the atmosphere was distinctly funereal.
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As they moved at a suitably funereal pace towards the church, you could see that, even though they were incredibly smart, almost nobody looked exactly respectable.
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Morale is low or even "funereal," according to some people who speak regularly with employees of the companies.
Fannie and Freddie Get Flatter
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With slow tempos predominating, they are sober, even solemn works, but hardly funereal, and never monotonous.
