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
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
Goldblatt’s pictures from before these events are touristic and from afterward elegiac; particularly moving are his portraits of the dispossessed, showing their bitterness and their dignity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Cushioned between the more experimental songs, however, were the real crowd-pleasers: An elegiac version of Lucky, a beautifully twisted No Surprises and a genuinely sublime version of Weird Fishes/Arpeggi.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025
The first songs were vigorous and then Mama Adanna’s voice broke out, husky and elegiac.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing elegiac
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Death of a Salesman
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