| The ballet ends with a slow, dirgelike walk offstage by the entire cast. |
| Too much of it, however: the dirgelike, mournful, fogged-up atmosphere seemed fake and stagy. |
| The sequence is accompanied by dirgelike music, which eventually becomes a sung lament. |
| The anthem proceeds by repeating a downward series of five notes, and this series creates a falling, dirgelike effect, as it is taken up by all five parts. |
| He is a resourceful narrator and storyteller, but most of the tempos are dirgelike, and you have to accept that events will unfold according to his preference. |
| The dirgelike humming of Lorna Simpson's nearby video installation was audible in the background. |
