Plangent

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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    (波浪等)沖擊的;轟鳴響的

          2.    悲切的





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–adjective 

resounding loudly, esp. with a plaintive sound, as a bell. 





　

Which is to say that Mister Lonely—



a plangent fable of faith, childhood's end, 



and the search for artistic identity—succeeds at few of the things movies routinely do, even as it pulls off other things most movies never try.





see rankle ebullient