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Example sentences for: elegiac

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The 81-year-old author's latest is admired as a "mature work": same old Bellovian subject (Jewish man brooding over a woman), but a more subdued, elegiac tone.
The all-star edition features elegiac pieces from Clive James, Simon Schama, Salman Rushdie, and editor/Di-acquaintance Tina Brown (Brown also did TV commentary for NBC at the funeral).
As he improvises on themes from the Western elegiac tradition, in which spring consoles for the losses of winter, Walcott finds that certain notes don't sound in the tropics, where there is "no climate, no calendar except for this bountiful day."
There's much in the elegiac tone of this book that reminds me of Philip Larkin's collection All What Jazz?
For all his elegiac rumination, though, Steiner does not lack a polemicist's instinct for the intellectual or ideological "hot spot."