Even here, however, it is by no means clear whether the verse is meant to be plangent or jolly and this helps the poem to recover somewhat after this low-point.
Bumbry's voice was rich and sizable, possessing a wide range, and was capable of producing a very distinctive plangent tone.
The sound of these imperious little-princess voices blended in idle chitchat is plangent, evocative.
It is written in firmly woven but intensely emotionalized blank verse interspersed with plangent lyrics.
It's a pleasurably predictable formula, kept afloat by plangent orchestration, glorious cinematography, and a continuous supply of death-beds and simple outback funerals.
Its mesmeric pedal point gave rise to luminescent overtone patterns, with a whirlwind of ornamental gestures leading to silences, sustained reflective individual pitches, tinged with plangent dissonance.
Her melodic continuity fails, and the plangent oboe serves as a temporary substitute during a pause for recovery.