elegiac literary , auch: elegiacal

From the very beginning, most of his music was elegiac in tone.

The final image, like the entire piece, has an elegiac purity.

But his last few moments on the stand had a reflective, almost elegiac feeling.

There is an elegiac undercurrent to almost everything we do together now.

The school itself, however, looked desolate, with an elegiac air about it.

Most of the music is very elegiac as befits the piece.

As the title suggests, most of the stories have an elegiac tone.

"There is an elegiac sadness to the film," he says.

A bitter elegiac tone marks the last third of the book.

But it's perfectly in step with the band's current elegiac mood.

His physical deterioration lent an elegiac air to the event.

All seven paintings in this show are elegiac and nocturnal.

As such, it could have taken an elegiac form, and sometimes it does.

In fact it had a kind of elegiac tone.

At once a classic war story and an elegiac meditation on the art of writing fiction.

His work - especially after the war - was haunted by elegiac recollection of things past.

The third elegiac piece is a description of a successful eastern general who fell from power.

A playwright, of course, should be permitted his elegiac moods.

But there is also a newly wistful, elegiac note here.

In the elegiac conclusion, there is at least a glimmer of hope that a better life might be possible.

In their lyric and elegiac poetry there is much to admire.

"Animal House" - the book - also manages somehow to be elegiac.

The most controversial movies in the group are also the most elegiac.

At its best, there is a magical elegiac tone.

The group takes over, in dance filled with elegiac gestures, poses and patterns.