elegiac
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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
Character actor Noah Segan’s directorial debut, the movie is a warmly elegiac portrait of the city and the pain of recognizing when your time has passed.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2026
It is the first of the elegiac collection he dryly titled “Poems of 1912-13,” otherwise known as the Emma Poems and a sublime act of self-recrimination.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
His patient, elegiac tone mimics the president’s reserve: The camera almost never moves, the musical cues are minimal, and there is virtually no unnecessary cutting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
The first songs were vigorous and then Mama Adanna’s voice broke out, husky and elegiac.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing elegiac
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