elegiac
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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
Film screenings were preceded by an elegiac video honoring him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
Cushioned between the more experimental songs, however, were the real crowd-pleasers: An elegiac version of Lucky, a beautifully twisted No Surprises and a genuinely sublime version of Weird Fishes/Arpeggi.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025
The execution is nevertheless lush, sometimes startlingly beautiful, and painterly and evocative of Johnson’s elegiac theme about a bygone America.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 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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