elegiac
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It is, at moments, elegiac in its remembrance of the people whose suffering and resistance gave birth to the citizenship clause.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
The elegiac tone of “Liberty Valance” pertains to both its subject and its cinematic era, as it came amid the final fading of classic Hollywood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
The elegiac opening and closing chapters, in which Crowther imagines visiting Monroe’s home and scanning her shelves, also add to the feeling that too much is being extrapolated out of not enough information.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
The instinctive response is elegiac: lament the shuttered campus, mourn the futures it might have made, hope for rescue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
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
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