elegiac
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Painful memories force her to confront first her own choices, then personal grief and finally, the family secrets that provide the novel’s distinctly elegiac and holistic tone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
It is, at moments, elegiac in its remembrance of the people whose suffering and resistance gave birth to the citizenship clause.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
The elegiac tone of “Liberty Valance” pertains to both its subject and its cinematic era, as it came amid the final fading of classic Hollywood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
In this longer and more structured form, what began as an intentional scattering of ashes becomes an elegiac letter home mediated by shipwreck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
And while Lefty stops to breathe it in, I’d like to take this opportunity to resuscitate—for purely elegiac reasons and only for a paragraph—that city which disappeared, once and for all, in 1922.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing elegiac
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 1
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Death of a Salesman
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