"sepulchral" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means dismal or gloomy. An example sentence would be: "The King's sepulchral chamber was filled with a thick shroud of darkness."
There's certainly an air of the sepulchral on debut single Holland (on paradYse Records) with its refrain: "Into dust we will all return," but it's a timeless and eerily comforting kind of meditation, on faith, loss and redemption, much like abolition-era hymnals – haunting and healing in equal measures.
But the description we read by a fan on YouTube captured best the sepulchral stillness and intimations of industrial clamour: "It's like hearing a church down the road from a steel factory".
At times the sepulchral pacing and stilted interactions verge on the genteel.
For the ritual sequence, sepulchral voices growl a litany as if from the pagan past.
In the absence of any conversation, Marcos asked the cardinal, "Why the sepulchral silence?" To which the cardinal replied, "Because, like Christ, I am crucified between two thieves".The story may be fiction, but the Catholic church in the Philippines has a tradition of outspokenness on political matters.
Hanging on a temporary, free-standing wall in the middle of the Frick's Oval Room, a glowing "Antea" beckons to visitors from across the museum's sepulchral Garden Court.
At one particularly strained meal, Babel's elderly daughter asks a Babel specialist in her "fathomless, sepulchral" voice, "Is it true that you despise me?" In another fine essay, "Who Killed Tolstoy?", Ms Batuman describes how Aeroflot lost her luggage, forcing her to deliver her paper at a conference on Tolstoy's estate wearing sweatpants and flip-flops.
But some of the guests find the atmosphere more than a tad sepulchral, and hanker for the hotel's crumbling past.Hardier, more nostalgic and poorer visitors resent the homogenisation brought by modernity, which flattens those quirks that make up if not "charm" (too strong a word for the old Strand), then at least "character".
IT IS daylight, but the darkness inside the headquarters of the world's biggest privately owned electricity company is sepulchral.
The more silver is left, the darker the film appears and "Seven", as is appropriate for one of the grimmest Hollywood films of the 1990s, boasts a darkness that is almost sepulchral.
The end returns to Frank for a final segment in which the dispenser of balm is himself healed, albeit at a terrible cost.At the start, Mr Fiennes seems both too young for the role and too cool, but such doubts soon give way when confronted with the actor's elegant voice, which is as seductive as it is sepulchral.
