plangent

The plangent power and deep earnestness of the words were even more applicable now than then.

But I am not plangent—one must take the thick with the thin—and I have such possibilities of another and better sort before me.

The plangent roar of the city was painful to his ears, which had always been attuned to the deep silences of forest and lake.

From his stivy cellar he issues forth into the plashing, plangent currents of city life.