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also elegiacal
as in depressing
causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer
the sight of an old ruined church or castle can be a pleasantly elegiac experience
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Recent Examples of elegiac
David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
Unforgiven was the elegiac work of an aging icon looking back on a long and varied career; that was 1992.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
The tone can be rapturous or elegiac, as confounding as the masterful final entries in Low’s own shapeshifting catalog.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 27 Sep. 2024
The film is more elegiac tone poem than structured narrative, echoing Maria's dreamlike trance induced by her abuse of medication and nostalgia for her glory days.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2024
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Adjective
But somehow, Joseph Kosinski did it, turning the sequel of a cheezy, homoerotic ’80s military action movie/propaganda recruitment tool into a lyrical, elegiac, and moving story of aging and redemption.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
Unforgiven was the elegiac work of an aging icon looking back on a long and varied career; that was 1992.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
The tone can be rapturous or elegiac, as confounding as the masterful final entries in Low’s own shapeshifting catalog.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 27 Sep. 2024
The film is more elegiac tone poem than structured narrative, echoing Maria's dreamlike trance induced by her abuse of medication and nostalgia for her glory days.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegiac
Adjective
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Two of the movies feature both Adams and Julianne Moore, and what’s really depressing is that such a phenomenal pairing got wasted on hapless material.Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
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And seeing even a preview of that was so depressing for me.Okla Jones, Essence, 4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Yet another was that depressive symptoms were self-reported, whereas clinical diagnosis is the gold standard for depression assessment.New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Dec. 2024
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Those who overestimated positive emotions, rather than focusing on negative ones, reported better well-being, fewer depressive symptoms and greater resilience.Mark Travers, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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Streams of information flow into and over each other in an elegy about who was who, and when, and why.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
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Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valeria Golino round out the cast of this visually and emotionally rich biopic styled as an operatic elegy.Travis Bean, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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The group of stories is classified as contemporary Gothic, and each follows a new morbid storyline. Find the book at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.Christopher Murray, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024
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Pennies from Heaven was based on British writer Dennis Potter’s postmodern TV series about the morbid inner life of a Depression-era sheet music salesman named Arthur (played by Steve Martin).Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2024
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Whoever DeWine taps to fill the seat left vacant by Vance could hold it for decades, a development that would have seemed far-fetched if suggested barely a decade ago.Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Dec. 2024
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And her gossamer guitar strums are as faint as whispers, keeping time alongside echoey taps and supple upright bass.Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Halfway through, Boilen casually mentions that her good friend Alan Sparhawk (of the band Low), with whom Lea has a band called the Murder of Crows, will be joining her for two of their songs; their duet is almost funereal, both somber and gorgeous, buoyed by an indomitable optimism.Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2024
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In the hands of Nelson, the song — with atmospheric, funereal production and Willie’s tearjerker vocals — becomes autobiographical.Andrew Kirell, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
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The hand drums, played here by Keith, make this one spooky dirge.Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
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Following long minutes of silence, a dirge of bagpipes began streaming from the church, suddenly growing loud as 10 pipers emerged with a corps of drummers behind, playing on as pallbearers rolled the casket out.Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
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Nicholas Quah: In many ways, Landman is the chillest entry in the Sheridan-verse, which is typically packed with violence, melancholia, and dudely grouchiness.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
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For her, the glory of the honeymoon had been in the planning, the dreaming, the building up in her mind; what a letdown to find that Paris was just a place, that some days were full of chill gray drizzle, that the dull, thick bodies of other tourists blocked her from full joy.Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Elegiac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegiac. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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