elegiac in English

adjective
1
(especially of a work of art) having a mournful quality.
the movie score is a somber effort, elegiac in its approach
noun
1
verses in an elegiac meter.
Translated, these Latin elegiacs mean: Breasts, O mother, milk and life thou didst give.

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1. The music has a dreamy, elegiac quality.

2. Her poetry has an elegiac quality.

3. He spoke of his childhood in elegiac tones.

4. He recorded his emotion in elegiac lines of magnificent dignity.

5. He died at the end of this wistful and elegiac novel.

6. “Crooked Hallelujah” has an elegiac rather than a comic tone

7. Elegiac poems were not included in Yuefu, but classified as an independent style in Analecta, the reason for which is the compiler realized the importance of elegiac poems that time.

8. Chapter One is a brief introduction of Robert Lowell and his elegiac poetry.

9. Both catch the film's elegiac mood, bathed in southern sunshine but overhung with impending death.

10. This is an abyss, between the sheets , pale white like an elegiac couplet.

11. He asks the private school gentleman of the village to keep an elegiac address for him.

12. Given what he had to say, the elegiac essay was the best way to say it.

13. At the same time my point out that the writer is in essence a elegiac poet.

14. Today, the elegiac address two well - preserved tablets Ju Dou, to the person, " Li Jia Fen. "

15. The stories are not angry, accusatory, or even ideological. It’s worse: they are condescendingly elegiac.

16. The mourning hall is full of wreaths, and on all the walls elegiac scrolls are hung.

17. Chahine Yavroyan's sound-design is a mosaic of distant gunfire, creaking hulks and elegiac music.

18. The mood, however, is consistently elegiac, without the contrasts that might rivet the attention throughout.

19. Followed by the elegiac address listened to his knees together[Sentencedict.com], the oration by the ceremonial reading.

20. 17 Followed by the elegiac address listened to his knees together, the oration by the ceremonial reading.

21. Richard always used to be seen as irresponsible in the first half and elegiac in the second.

22. These are haunting and elegiac poems, in which expressions of sorrow and loss are given ceremonious form.

23. Kinderszenen I felt was somehow a bit disappointing compared to the studied and elegiac reading of Schubert's great B flat Sonata.

24. Record Of The Buddhistic Kingdoms Fa Xian, After The Rain Nicola Thorne, Healing Revealed Robert Holburn, Demonstrations In Latin Elegiac Verse Rouse W

25. In particular, his elegiac address written in four-or-six-character style possesses high aesthetic temperament as well as artistic value with magnificent form and prosodic affection.

26. By the dawn of the 14th century, Canzone writers were branching out from neo-platonic love, and writing verse that was contemplative and sad, even elegiac at times

27. The analysis of these two poems provides a fresh glimpse into Robert Browning's uncharacteristically subjective poetic voice and examines their unique place within the elegiac tradition.

28. ‘Nomadland,' ‘Borat,' ‘The Crown' Win at Bicoastal Globes The night's top award, best picture drama, went to Chloé Zhao's elegiac road movie “Nomadland" Published February 28, 2021

29. Here, despite both Blake’s and Ross’s Bootblacked hair and dark makeup, and because of the participation of Morongo and other Mission tribes as extras and contributors, the message of Willie Boy remains elegiac and compelling

30. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau is a rich and philosophically poignant homage to the metaphysical magic of storytelling.”—Kira Jane Buxton, author of Hollow Kingdom “The Lost Book of Adana Moreau is a stunner—equal parts epic and intimate, thrilling and elegiac

31. ‘As Schoenberg said, Atonality is rejected not because it is ugly, but because it is misunderstood.’ ‘Walton, who in early days dabbled in Atonality, eventually settled for neo-romanticism and his Viola Concerto is a most elegiac composition.’

32. Ovid wrote in elegiac couplets , with two exceptions: his lost Medea , whose two fragments are in iambic trimeter and anapest s, respectively, and his great Metamorphoses, which he wrote in dactylic hexameter , the meter of Virgil 's Aeneid and Homer 's epics.

33. Bury This is electrifying and elegiac, sensual and suspenseful.” —Dylan Landis, Normal People Don’t Live Like This 'Bury This is a stunning, unflinching portrait of a girl discarded but not forgotten, a town shattered by suspicion, and the corrosive power of anger, secrets, and shame

34. Only literature Anoints me March 18 at 7:31 AM · -Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BCE – CE 17/18), known as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/) in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets

35. "Brittle, Like Twigs" bursts with staccato energy and funk, "Chitter chatter" melds cinematic high drama to a rollicking high-spirited conclusion for one of the CD's most engaging rides, and the concluding "Blur" ends the album on an elegiac note, again beautiful and cinematic but with the pyrotechnics this time held somewhat in check.

36. Andromachus’s Concoction, Galene Theriaca (tranquility theriac), was an improved version of Mithridates’s elixir, containing 65 ingredients with a higher proportion of opiates and minerals and with the original lizard flesh replaced by that of a viper [2].The recipe for Galene was written in Greek by Andromachus in the form of elegiac couplets and the prose rendition was quoted by his son