the plangent but self-mocking lilt

all she’d left behind were her plangent songs that tell me so little and her unfinished memoirs that reveal little more

Russ felt powerless against Wanda’s plangency

Some of these have a plangency and luster we haven't expected

chorus of plangent cries

Not a year has passed since its birth when it hasn't been pronounced dead, and in Goodbye, Dragon Inn we find one of its most eloquent and plangent eulogies.

clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams

I was still brimming with plangency, chockful of feeling

her high-school-girlish prose could evoke with plangent strength

His plangent tonalities I shall never forget, nor shall I ever forgive myself the ill-tempered review in which I attacked him for trivial faults in his unfledged verse

Of course, these publishers, crying out for words on paper like pining dogs under a plangent moon, weren't regular publishers.

A few plangent inhalations, on Avenue B