elegiac

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Yet if all we get from “The Innocents of Florence” is a sense of elegiac reverence for those children who briefly called it home, Mr. Luzzi’s narrative is ultimately an evocative one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

His patient, elegiac tone mimics the president’s reserve: The camera almost never moves, the musical cues are minimal, and there is virtually no unnecessary cutting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

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

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