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Finally, and elegiacally, Professor of English Michael Theune commented to the Chicago Tribune, "It is a bad day. The faculty's control of the curriculum has been taken away."

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2020

We look back elegiacally on this moment in 1960 when so much revolutionary jazz and so many elegies lay in the future.

From New York Times • May 9, 2017

Ali and Nino ends elegiacally, lamenting the dying beauty of Eastern tradition and predicting that Baku would inexorably Europeanize.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2017

For Federer, the last act is elegiacally ongoing.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2016

She had suffered before—yes, but lucidly, reflectively, elegiacally: now she was suffering as a hurt animal must, blindly, furiously, with the single fierce animal longing that the awful pain should stop...

From The Reef by Wharton, Edith