Words similar to elegiac

Example sentences for: elegiac

How can you use “elegiac” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

For all his elegiac rumination, though, Steiner does not lack a polemicist's instinct for the intellectual or ideological "hot spot."
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).
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."
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.