adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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elegiac verse
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both catch the film's elegiac mood, bathed in southern sunshine but overhung with impending death.
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Chahine Yavroyan's sound-design is a mosaic of distant gunfire, creaking hulks and elegiac music.
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Given what he had to say, the elegiac essay was the best way to say it.
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His elegiac tempo for the largo of the Cello Sonata allows him a sustained outpouring of feeling.
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Its wildness and this elegiac calm met, circled each other, and survived.
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Richard always used to be seen as irresponsible in the first half and elegiac in the second.
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The mood, however, is consistently elegiac , without the contrasts that might rivet the attention throughout.
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These are haunting and elegiac poems, in which expressions of sorrow and loss are given ceremonious form.