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Example sentences for: elegy

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The new lyrics (by Bernie Taupin), she says, are "as facile and pretty as a souvenir thimble"; the apparently hot new genre of pop elegy, she adds, is tacky.
Working from some of the same impulses as Ramis and company, creator David Chase has fashioned an elegy to a vanishing world of "family-oriented" crime--and an exploration of the dislocation that its passing evokes in sometime boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini).
The “lowing herd” (“Onomatoplazia”) wound slowly in the first verse of “Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” by Thomas Gray, not Oliver Goldsmith.
To hear Robert Pinsky read "Elegy on the Death of Sidney," click .
I said, "Dear Larry," as I put down his book, Elegy ,