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elegy

noun as in dirge

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Linklater’s movies have frequently featured affable underdogs, but by contrast, “Blue Moon” is an elegy to a bitter, insecure man whose view of himself as a failure has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Graff’s elegy for America leads to a core question about moral accountability and complicity: When you look in the mirror each morning, who do you see?

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Like the letter itself, the score is part valentine, part elegy—and John put his heart into it.

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Jess Walter’s searing and sublime eighth novel, “So Far Gone,” is a wistful elegy — some might say a eulogy — to a kinder, gentler time.

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It was etched with the elegy “True to His Spirit” in Greek.

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