elegy
Example Sentences
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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.
From Salon
"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
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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