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What does plangently mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word plangently? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. In a plangent manner: with a loud reverberating sound, or plaintively.
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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.

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