How to Use elegiac in a Sentence

elegiac

adjective

• The most elegiac work in the outdoor show could hardly have been simpler.
  — Esther Allen, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2019
• The title suggests the elegiac strain that runs through all 10 of these tracks (five with Williams’s vocals).
  — Jon Garelick, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
• But that was not the only reason that there was an elegiac theme to Monday night.
  — John Koblin, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• The elegiac score by Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva is redolent with the buoyant melancholy of klezmer.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
• Now, four years later, Joe Biden's bid for the White House has taken on almost an elegiac air.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2020
• If anything, those elegiac spasms seemed to arrive too soon.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
• An old crane hovers above the Hudson, lending the retreat an elegiac feel.
  — Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2023
• This elegiac doc would make for a much better career coda.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
• The scale of Alan Yang’s heartfelt debut feature is human, its tone elegiac.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 10 Apr. 2020
• There is much that is elegiac in this debut collection.
  — Frank Wilson, Philly.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• The abiding tone is mournful yet steadfast, elegiac and full of gratitude.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 28 Aug. 2023
• Filmed on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, the clip for Styles' elegiac single sees the singer soaring above lush oceanside landscapes before walking across the water.
  — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
• The response has run the gamut between rank speculation and elegiac mourning.
  — Ann Hornaday, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
• That’s the case with the latest entry, a sometimes elegiac-feeling but warmly performed piece about how the fate of a North Dakota church hangs in the balance at Christmastime.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• Thankfully, The Rider doesn’t engage in the kind of elegiac allegories that stories about men and horses are so often guilty of.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2018
• Give some time over to the quiet Americans on the way, including Winslow Homer’s elegiac painting of a sleigh disappearing over a hill.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2018
• Set largely in England, these ten elegiac tales depict loss of innocence, loss of memory, loss of love and, acutely, loss of life.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• Hoffs and Martin intertwined their voices, stripping the sweet lament to a gorgeously elegiac place.
  — Alex Suskind, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2020
• As the details pile up, irony, both caustic and elegiac, flourishes in the knowledge gaps between characters.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2023
• The narrator, Pikelet, is voiced as an adult by the Australian writer Tim Winton, who wrote the novel on which this quiet, quietly elegiac movie is based.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2018
• Its elegiac meanderings return time and time again to the figure of Carel Fabritius.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• Most Black novels are elegiac mysteries about Quirke, a pathologist in 1950s Dublin.
  — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
• These elegiac images, and the accompanying stories and videos, show us what silence looks like.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2020
• In the first, elegiac version of these scenes, Fox’s memories are bucolic, all soft pop and polo shirts, and her younger self is played by Jessica Sarah Flaum, a pretty young teen-ager.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 18 June 2018
• The tone is elegiac, muffled, and yet curiously intense.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 31 May 2017
• Hollinghurst’s narrative orbits around the disparate fates of a father and son, but contained within its epic scope is an elegiac portrait of the inexorable power of time.
  — Time Staff, Time, 11 June 2018
• The language is more elegiac, almost mystical, though as precise as ever.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2020
• Sciolino reaches the right elegiac note in her afterword.
  — Debra Bruno, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• Dolores Claiborne is the masterpiece, but her genesis can be traced back to this elegiac story of a 95-year-old Stella Flanders, who has never once crossed to the mainland from her island home.
  — Neil McRobert, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• In this elegiac history, Joyce presents a painstaking account of a way of life to which, until recently, the vast majority of humanity was bound.
  — The New Yorker, 12 June 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024