| Much like a requiem, the mood is mournful, even funereal, and the work includes passages one could label classical and minimalist. |
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| A prairie fire had swept away all traces of vegetation and there was a black, funereal mantle as far as the eye could reach in every direction. |
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| These days the Trace is a bitumen road, grass verges neatly manicured and mowed for mile after funereal mile. |
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| There is little trace of the funereal bedroom sparseness of Cohen's early albums. |
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| Don't let this San Francisco gay bar's funereal front, with its large and lilied flower arrangement, get you down. |
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| With slow tempos predominating, they are sober, even solemn works, but hardly funereal, and never monotonous. |
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| Later on, they go over to Harold's place, where funereal choir music is playing as everyone marches in, white-faced, for cuppas. |
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| Suspended from a rod placed a little above eye level and by large heavy-looking rings, the curtain has a solemn, almost funereal effect. |
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| The result could add up to a big bore, especially as director James Ivory refused to move things along at anything other than a funereal pace. |
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| This is primarily a period piece and, as you might expect from the elegiac nature of the film, the pace is appropriately funereal. |
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| And as their coach and captain faced the first questions of a lengthy inquisition, the atmosphere was distinctly funereal. |
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| Later on, Lyn, Brie, Joe and Janelle go over to Harold's place, where funereal choir music is playing as everyone marches in, white-faced, for cuppas. |
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| Believing in literature means saying that the ghastly regime holding sway over your country is altogether insipid, compared to literature in all its funereal majesty. |
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| Mourning the lack of opportunities which have thus far presented themselves, the funereal hue seems appropriate in the current Scottish footballing climate. |
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| The Reverend Jolly's voice was in fact not all that far from Fulton's own, but slowed to a funereal tempo and larded with the lugubriousness of a hired mourner. |
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| The lyrics describe a funereal scene, written in an age of famous funerals. |
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| As they moved at a suitably funereal pace towards the church, you could see that, even though they were incredibly smart, almost nobody looked exactly respectable. |
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| While lilies of the valley are given for good luck on May 1 in France, white flowers have funereal associations in other cultures besides the Japanese. |
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| His mother was a professional mourner, an essential, traditional part of all funereal vigils and wakes. |
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| My first introduction to all things funereal began when my parents carried me from the hospital straight to the funeral home. |
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| But knowing what I do, I infer a sombre, if not quite funereal, purpose to the place. |
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| But the ideal occasion for funereal music was most often provided by the demise of real individuals. |
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| Nevertheless, as a funereal action and as a warning to the world, our resolution holds considerable resonance. |
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| The discovery of the Orbetello necropolises has brought back to life some rich funereal paraphernalia belonging to its aristocracy. |
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| I noticed a funereal blaze burning on the shore, and heard the lamentations of women and men. |
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| Layers of moss and decay give a funereal quality to this weighty hall. |
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| To prevent the dead from seizing the living, to avoid being buried under an avalanche of memory overload, it will be very necessary to write new rules for a work of mourning, new funereal rites for the information age. |
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| We travel round the island to find out about and understand the prehistoric culture that left these impressive funereal monuments as their legacy. |
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| There is a section of tolling, funereal stasis, in which the energy of the music dissipates almost to oblivion, before gathering itself into another geometric storm of colour and coruscation. |
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| Recently a number of items related to funereal worship have been added. |
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| Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god. |
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| The result is a rather ethereal album of changing moods, swinging from the sepulchral Where we had never gone, with its funereal organs and otherworldly voice, to the more joyful Tears coming home. |
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| The home side had hoped for a big turnout as they drank at the last-chance saloon, but the funereal atmosphere suggested the fans had already given up the ghost. |
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| He represents it also as a funereal bird, a monster of the night, the very abomination of human kind. |
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| Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. |
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| A piano tinkles like a funereal music box. |
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| This was doubly disturbing for a community whose ancient funereal ceremonies lay great store by ritual purification and distancing the living from the 'contagion' of a corpse. |
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| A large number of JI workers, besides relatives of Abdul Wahid and residents of the area were also present at the funereal prayer. |
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| At least three Etruscan kings ruled over Rome: Servilius Tullius, as well as the Tarquinii, whose roots led to Tarquinia, a city now famous for its funereal drawings. |
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| Ashlee Simpson, strangely blond and schoolmarmish in headband and funereal black suit, depended on dad Joe and new boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama to keep away the riff-raff. |
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| Instead of a jaunty allegro the finale meandered in arthritically so Mozart's inspired andante cantabile interjection had to be played at a funereal pace to compensate. |
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