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Example sentences for: elegiac

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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."
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."
Bosworth, the biographer of Diane Arbus and Montgomery Clift, "provides a vivid sense of upper-middle-class life in the early Cold War years, when prominent citizens suddenly turned their backs on colleagues such as Crum and called them Communist dupes," writes Kathy Deacon in the Village Voice . In the New York Times Book Review , Richard Lingeman says Bosworth "tells her elegiac story in a tone that is admirably restrained, in prose that conveys strong feeling by understatement."
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.
The gorgeous golden bed with its heavy white pillow squeezed right from the tube already feels elegiac.