elegiac
Example Sentences
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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
In this longer and more structured form, what began as an intentional scattering of ashes becomes an elegiac letter home mediated by shipwreck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
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
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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