Funereal is more like it.
The plural is funerals – "Fancy dress funerals aren't everybody's cup of tea". The adjective is – funereal – notice the stress on the second syllable – "Who chose this funereal music?
"Final Nightshade," a conservative, funereal work, was a miscalculation.
The work, a funereal meditation, was inspired by the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
"Funereal music was played, and then we had to hear the long list of titles that preceded Mao's name, 'Chairman,' 'Beloved Leader,'Greatat helmsman...,' " Yu recalled.
As a women priest told me: "People don't want funerals to be funereal any more".
In a picture of Miliband unveiling his plinth of promises, the funereal associations are hard to resist.
Balancing out this slightly funereal suggestion is the general orderliness and smaller size of the piece, which make the individual seeds much more prominent.
Mr. Critchley's funereal tableau is not beautiful, but it effectively expresses an exasperation shared by many about modernity's economic and ecological trajectory.
The new mausoleum, designed by J. Stuart Todd, a Dallas architect who specializes in funereal structures, is scheduled for completion in the next 30 days.
