elegy

The version here, offered in elegy, is slow but not somber, gripping but also soft-edged.

“Bread of Angels” is also an elegy, not just for lost loved ones but for times, places and even physical things.

"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."

The novel reads like a wintry elegy to the once proud cad.

Linklater’s movies have frequently featured affable underdogs, but by contrast, “Blue Moon” is an elegy to a bitter, insecure man whose view of himself as a failure has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.