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Recent Examples of threnodyHis diary shrank to a litany of suffering and a threnody for what might have been.—Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018 Most critics acknowledged the score’s beautiful moments, especially Cleopatra’s death scene, in which the character’s plaintive lyrical lines are capped by a chilling choral threnody.—Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017 Needless to say, Murray’s threnody for Europe is as fundamentally incoherent as its late-19th-century originals.—Pankaj Mishra, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017 Threnody in X (FTF), Soda Pop (FTF), Corn Hives (FTF), Facts (FTF),—Sophie Brown, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2011
Silverman joined the parade with a lament about the changing times.
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Paul Harris,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2025
But where Knight of Cups often drifts along in a generalized fog of melancholy, Blanchett actually makes the film’s lament for shattered relationships and thwarted potential actually hurt.
In fact, the opening moments play out like an elegy for the whole nation: a school boarded up, with empty corridors and empty classrooms.
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
As photographed by Austin Shelton, the widescreen images — and even the vertical TikTok videos braided alongside — convey a hopeful vision of their future, more fresh start than elegy.
Whether a requiem is due for rom-coms or not, in the meantime there's at least a conveyor belt of cringe to feast upon.
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Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
The funeral procession begins with a sorrowful requiem but transitions into a celebration of life — reminding us that life extends beyond death, that grief is not the absence of love but an extension of it.
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Mathew Holloway,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
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