elegiac
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On “Souls of Fire,” Mr. Light’s guitar track is reversed—heard backward—to produce briefly glowing orbs of sound that intensify the song’s elegiac mood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Painful memories force her to confront first her own choices, then personal grief and finally, the family secrets that provide the novel’s distinctly elegiac and holistic tone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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 correspondence lost its argumentative edge and shifted back to an elegiac, still-life pattern after 1820.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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