elegiac

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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

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

It is the first of the elegiac collection he dryly titled “Poems of 1912-13,” otherwise known as the Emma Poems and a sublime act of self-recrimination.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Yet if all we get from “The Innocents of Florence” is a sense of elegiac reverence for those children who briefly called it home, Mr. Luzzi’s narrative is ultimately an evocative one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 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