elegiac
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During “La Noche,” an elegiac piano hymn about trying to find peace of mind, he shakily sings the hook, telling the audience, “I’m not the best singer, but I sing because I love life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
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
A violin floats between the guitars, evoking country earthiness with an elegiac tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 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
And while Lefty stops to breathe it in, I’d like to take this opportunity to resuscitate—for purely elegiac reasons and only for a paragraph—that city which disappeared, once and for all, in 1922.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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