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
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
Also among Mr. Stoppard’s most indelible achievements was “The Invention of Love,” his elegiac and beautifully compassionate play about the poet A.E.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
“Beloved Renegade” is as elegiac a gathering as “Speaking in Tongues” is a chilling one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
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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