elegiac

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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

Character actor Noah Segan’s directorial debut, the movie is a warmly elegiac portrait of the city and the pain of recognizing when your time has passed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 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

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