Elegiac in a sentence

But this was authorial sleight of hand—a decision, by Neihardt, to close the curtain on a mournful, elegiac note.

In retrospect, "Black Sheep" is an elegiac story, one that waves farewell at a comedy team that was only warming up before Farley's sudden death.

It makes sense that there are more than a few cricket-based songs out there, and Harper’s elegiac ode to a player in the twilight of their career stands out.

The dancers seem almost to float across the stage, carried by the elegiac music of the great jazz composer Keith Jarrett.

This elegiac song from the full-throated singer Josh Groban was written by the performer along with Dave Matthews and Jochem van der Saag.

Balvin is a sweetly elegiac singer — see especially “Azul,” where he stretches out soft vowels like taffy — but his rapping is largely blank.

But this is his most lavish, measured, and sad: an elegiac fantasy of filmmaking, as a loose adaptation of the Odyssey grinds to a halt on Capri, with Jack Palance as the brash American producer trying to sell art by the yard.

First seen at Hampstead Theatre in 2017 and now on tour, Johnson’s own production is both entertaining and elegiac.

Quietly anthemic, Don’t Be Scared, I Love You takes its naggingly persistent refrain to an almighty crescendo, while the meandering Wild Swans wrings its elegiac pathos dry before yet another storming conclusion.

Elegiac series … Untitled from The Train: RFK’s Last Journey, 1968, by Paul Fusco.

St. Vincent took the tempo a little slower than the original, but never strayed from that famously elegiac melody.

Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro (Germany Year 90 Nine Zero, 1991) was a quasi-sequel to Alphaville but done with an elegiac tone and focus on the inevitable decay of age.

A portrait of Thomas Hardy in 1923 Many of Hardy's poems deal with themes of disappointment in love and life, and "the perversity of fate", but the best of them present these themes with "a carefully controlled elegiac feeling".

Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World s.v. Ovid Literary success The first 25 years of Ovid's literary career were spent primarily writing poetry in elegiac meter with erotic themes.

Conte, G. p. 343 Medicamina Faciei Femineae ("Women's Facial Cosmetics") main About a hundred elegiac lines survive from this poem on beauty treatments for women's faces, which seems to parody serious didactic poetry.

Elegiac verses appear, for example, in Petronius ' Satyricon, and Martial 's Epigrams uses it for many witty stand-alone couplets and for longer pieces.

He advises women to read elegiac poetry, learn to play games, sleep with people of different ages, flirt, and dissemble.

He reprised his performance a decade later on Frank Zappa 's " Memories of El Monte ", an elegiac 1963 song in which he suddenly breaks into "Earth Angel" as one of the various songs remembered.

His elegiac poem, read at Larra's funeral in February 1837, introduced him to the leading men of letters.

Ibis ("The Ibis") main The Ibis is an elegiac poem in 644 lines, in which Ovid uses a dazzling array of mythic stories to curse and attack an enemy who is harming him in exile.