The odd plangent certitude in his voice penetrated her.
You ask my husband," came the slow, plangent voice of Clariss.
In his idyllic as in his lyrical interbreathings, melody seems absolutely demanded to interpret and complete the plangent rhythm of his dulcet numbers.
At last after an age of adoration, the plangent appeal of the Agnus Dei came with a melody that seemed the music of the sobbing world from which all tears had departed in a clarity of harmonious sound.
Plangent as music itself, serene as sculpture, with smiling lips magically crimson, adorably human, she finished her first concerto.
Here, more than perhaps in any other poem, Moore has fixed in his words that plangent quality of voice, by which a hundred times he moved listeners to tears.
After any stress of emotion, the plangent quality of his own voice in singing tended to produce one of these outbursts, when it seemed as if his chest must burst under the strain.
The plangent roar of the city was painful to his ears, which had always been attuned to the deep silences of forest and lake.
Master, as the Mistress, drawn by the visitor's plangent tones, joined the veranda-group.
His Majesty spoke through the nose; snuffled his speech in an earnest ominously plangent manner.
It never occurred to him to wonder what she was thinking about as she worked with her eyes cast down towards the white table or turning towards the door to call in musical plangent accents to the old woman in the kitchen below.
But the nice boy had never lived and never would live with anybody on such terms, and his clear young voice lacked the plangent irony of the battered idealist.
The plangent power and deep earnestness of the words were even more applicable now than then.
