elegiac
Example Sentences
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Throughout this show, artists of all nationalities celebrate their homelands’ traditions and cultures, though there is a slightly elegiac air to these odes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Cushioned between the more experimental songs, however, were the real crowd-pleasers: An elegiac version of Lucky, a beautifully twisted No Surprises and a genuinely sublime version of Weird Fishes/Arpeggi.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025
The execution is nevertheless lush, sometimes startlingly beautiful, and painterly and evocative of Johnson’s elegiac theme about a bygone America.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
Her tone in “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction” is elegiac, as though smartphones have killed off the craft; yet it’s also a manifesto of sorts, and a declaration of her own aesthetics.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025
The correspondence lost its argumentative edge and shifted back to an elegiac, still-life pattern after 1820.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Death of a Salesman
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