单词	elegiac
释义	elegiacel‧e‧gi‧ac /ˌeləˈdʒaɪək◂/ adjective literary Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES elegiac verse EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Both catch the film's elegiac mood, bathed in southern sunshine but overhung with impending death. Chahine Yavroyan's sound-design is a mosaic of distant gunfire, creaking hulks and elegiac music. Given what he had to say, the elegiac essay was the best way to say it. His elegiac tempo for the largo of the Cello Sonata allows him a sustained outpouring of feeling. Its wildness and this elegiac calm met, circled each other, and survived. Richard always used to be seen as irresponsible in the first half and elegiac in the second. The mood, however, is consistently elegiac, without the contrasts that might rivet the attention throughout. These are haunting and elegiac poems, in which expressions of sorrow and loss are given ceremonious form. showing that you feel sad about someone who has died or something that no longer exists:  He spoke of her in elegiac tones.
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