Sentence:  A biting , pithy parable of the all pervading hollowness of modern life , the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four <WSD>thousand</WSD> French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units