Word: plangently
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...veteran victim--and made it so audible, so immediate, so dark and deep. Rarely, before or since, has a voice also shown the grit to express, endure and outlive that misery. His songs played like confessions on a deathbed or death row, but he delivered them with the plangent stoicism of a world-class poker player dealt a bum hand...
...time, no doubt, the Tigers' bubble will burst, as all their other streaks have ended. The Giants, owned by the same company that dominates the country's radio and television networks and owns its largest newspaper, will reassert their place atop the tribal hierarchy. The plangent sounds of "When the Wind Blows from Mount Rokko," the Tigers' fight-song, will recede from the department stores. Order will restore itself as it always does after Carnival and Saturnalia (especially in tradition-loving Japan). But by then something may have been achieved that could change the hearts of a country always ready...
...crowd loves it. By the time Aa Gym ("elder brother" Gym), finishes his hour-long sermon with a plangent Islamic hymn, scores of women and men are openly weeping, and the roar of applause continues long after the TV cameras have been switched off. When he plunges into a crowd after a performance, there are always eager hands thrust out reaching for him, some fans even bowing down and kissing the preacher's hand, whispering a name to be remembered in his prayers. And always there are scores of squealing teenage girls hovering on the sidelines...
...never oversold, and at home with the American vernacular. Astaire moved the 'scene' of the singer from the center of the great hall to just across the table, in effect replacing the Minstrel Boy with Ordinary Guy, U.S. version." Whereas Louis Armstrong abstracted a song's lyrics into a plangent growl, Astaire mined their meaning with mediocre vocal equipment. It's a coin toss to determine which one was the first modernist pop singer...
...time to leave. Prison rules forbid visitors after 4 p.m. As the last of Nigeria's six goals is hammered home, a plane roars low over the prison, reminding these caged Super Eagles that their wings have been clipped. In the bleachers the chanting slows, becomes more plangent. Only then you realize what they've been singing all afternoon: "We want to go home, home...