| As the guitar's tone is intrinsically less plangent than the oboe's, the character of the music is greatly altered in this work too. |
| Then from a point in the south came that warning, plangent cry of the evil bird. |
| The plangent power and deep earnestness of the words were even more applicable now than then. |
| The bijou effect of the original could easily translate into unwitting preciosity, and one appreciates the translator's wariness of plangent excess. |
| It seemed as large as the shell of a cathedral, and for organ there was the plangent, echoing sound of sea waves. |
| The plangent roar of the city was painful to his ears, which had always been attuned to the deep silences of forest and lake. |
