In London, in 1951, a little girl skips past an undertaker's hearse in the fog, and you know that the whole of her life is being plangently prefigured. |
It was actually better, with strings more plangently focused, wind and brass blisteringly gaudier, and the percussion often frighteningly explosive. |
She was plangently moving in her slower music, but in her faster passagework she gave the music a wonderful shape and direction. |
Cheek by Jowl caroled Shakespeare's songs plangently in four-part harmony, but the Ridiculous' Titania had to add a placatory wince to the promise that her fairies would sing. |
There are certain harsh, knife-coloured mornings in springtime that are more plangently evocative than any leaf-blown autumn day. |