elegiac
adjective
used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.
elegiacally
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a word derived from
elegiac.
Example Sentences
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Auletta effectively, if maybe a little too elegiacally, frames this one in the lengthy shadow of “Citizen Kane.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
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
But the film makes its primary case eloquently and elegiacally: The only thing more lonesome than a cowboy, surveying a land where no one understands him, is that same cowboy without a horse.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2018
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 Edith Wharton
