plangent in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for plangent in the English»Spanish Dictionary

plangent [Am ˈplændʒənt, Brit ˈplan(d)ʒ(ə)nt] ADJ liter

plangent (mournful)

plañidero

plangent (deep, loud)

retumbante

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

But the album's plangent, solitary guitars, strings and choir parts made clear he had transcended the banjo-picking, and twee, cutesy gimmickry.

www.independent.co.uk

Not that it's sheer power---more the boys' focused, plangent tonal quality.

www.telegraph.co.uk

It sounds impressive in a car, all those bass wobbles and plangent pianos and operatic synth-churns.

www.stereogum.com

Fame might beckon, but through everything echoes the plangent question: how can you conduct a private life when you are quite literally joined at the hip to your sister?

www.standard.co.uk

The sound of these imperious little-princess voices blended in idle chitchat is plangent, evocative.

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We walked along a boardwalk that led us to a haunted house that was tilting on stilts above the plangent green ocean, with sandbags where its backyard used to be.

o.canada.com

Cue transsexuals, a bullfighter and a plangent bolero.

www.afr.com

The man who fundamentally changed songwriting has penned popular music's most kaleidoscopic streams of consciousness and also its most plangent paeans.

news.nationalpost.com

She can go from sardonic to plangent, wry to heartfelt, in a couple of clauses.

www.theglobeandmail.com

It resonates with a peculiar, plangent disaffection.

hyperallergic.com