elegiac
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The film, made in collaboration with his King's Foundation charity, is a sometimes elegiac look at his many decades of campaigning to protect the natural world.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 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
“Beloved Renegade” is as elegiac a gathering as “Speaking in Tongues” is a chilling one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Her tone in “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction” is elegiac, as though smartphones have killed off the craft; yet it’s also a manifesto of sorts, and a declaration of her own aesthetics.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025
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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