“Doors close abruptly in hero's face with a dirgeful ding-dong.”

“And, if thy time is sorrows, let all breath Breathe dirgeful music for is welcome such, Nor shall the stricken curse that thou dost hold Ingratitude a minion.”

“Even a streaker couldn't disturb their massive concentration, nor could the dirgeful piper who'd earlier given the match its air of untimely triumphalism.”

“The sequence is accompanied by dirgelike music, which eventually becomes a sung lament.”

“The dirgelike humming of Lorna Simpson's nearby video installation was audible in the background.”

“Too much of it, however: the dirgelike, mournful, fogged-up atmosphere seemed fake and stagy.”