elegy
Example Sentences
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Threaded with fiddle, piano and lead vocal by his son Jaime, “Nashville Skyline” is an elegy for Nashville’s rapacious gentrification as well as a love lost to time.
From Los Angeles Times
Especially via elegies for men lost in battle over the past 250 years, the poems measure and celebrate the cost of nationhood.
Bi is far more invested in that latter revolution and consequently, “Resurrection” can be seen as an elegy for a medium whose cultural relevance has somewhat slipped.
From Los Angeles Times
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
The version here, offered in elegy, is slow but not somber, gripping but also soft-edged.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
