elegy

The final Cal Hooper installment is an elegy to both a lost girl and a vanishing way of life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

If you do so while laying off workers and depleting the offerings at the cinema, well, that Tudum sound can be a herald, or it can be an elegy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

"She was at death's door, and she knew I could write, so she asked me to write her an elegy if the worst came to the worst."

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

Released in 1976, less than a year after the ship’s sinking, his folk ballad became an instant hit, turning a regional disaster into an international elegy.

From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2025

Word spread quickly on the street that a small elegy of scythes had entered the Tonist cloister.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

But amid the elegies written about American capitalism, the latest mini-IPO boom is a welcome tribute to the dynamism of U.S. markets that no other country can match.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

"But I felt as if I were writing elegies, actually."

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023

The participants, mostly wearing black clothes, beat their chests and recited elegies in the commercial heart of Srinagar.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

So cherished, I shall never die— Pray, therefore, spare your dolesome praises, Your elegies and plaintive cries, For I shall fertilize no daisies!

From Hoosier Lyrics by Field, Eugene