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Example sentences for: elegiac

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The gorgeous golden bed with its heavy white pillow squeezed right from the tube already feels elegiac.
Partly this comes from the tension between the snappy, driving screenplay by Paul Attanasio and the elegiac tone of the director, Englishman Mike Newell (along with his magnificent composer, Patrick Doyle).
They admire the film's scenic mountain vistas and elegiac tone, saying the latter resembles "a meditative and incantatory piece of music" (Pico Iyer, the New York Review of Books ). Most critics respectfully note that the lack of a plot and the lengthy scenes of Buddhist priests in prayer don't make for high excitement.
There's much in the elegiac tone of this book that reminds me of Philip Larkin's collection All What Jazz?
If Omeros , like its Homeric model, was a poem about fathers, The Bounty is Walcott's mother book, an attempt "to draw the veiled figure/ of Mamma entering the standard elegiac."