elegiac
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References to John can be found in some of his brother's works, such as in The Character of the Happy Warrior, Stepping Westward and Elegiac Stanzas.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2024
Elegiac music is more effecting when it’s uplifting, creating a happy-sad feeling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2018
Elegiac sentences carried me along paths as wondrous as those tread by the novel’s nomads, who voyage ever deeper into the indifferent desert.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2015
Elegiac, witty and deeply reflective, “Night Across the Street” strikes a mature and complex tone.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2013
Elegiac purples of the aster beckon, and the butterfly sleeps long upon the thistle, but she would not go now, in the month of the first bittersweet and the last sweet pea.
From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 1
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Death of a Salesman
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