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The disappearance of God is often considered elegiacally, as a loss.

Since the nineteenth century, the disappearance of God has often been considered elegiacally, as a loss or a lack.

"Listen, we had a parrot," he typically begins, rather elegiacally.

What would we talk about," says Walter elegiacally.

Only a month ago, in an interview, she spoke elegiacally of her presidency and said she had decided not to run again in 1992.

They settled finally in the Mississippi Delta that Faulkner would later write about so elegiacally.

'The best thing about being Anglophone,' he observes, elegiacally, 'is that you have two countries.'

The affair has led some scholars of urban politics to wonder, somewhat elegiacally: Whatever happened to the party bosses of yesteryear?

The Martinu uses Czechoslovak folk tunes and is a fine piece with a moody second movement that suddenly sings elegiacally at the end.

With fractured sentences and surreal imagery, he conjured South Africa from afar - playfully, elegiacally, bitterly.

He danced the prince's sorrowful solo with a gutsy lyricism and sadness, his arms and torso curving elegiacally into position.

"Harrison writes elegiacally of a regime whose romantic qualities are largely the creation of an Upper Canadian quest for a distinctive historical identity."

As a photographer, though, Doisneau focused on everyday life, the kind tha was delightfully dissonant or elegiacally French - and forever fresh.

Elegiacally, I murmured under my breath: 'Keep Teeth Kleen and Keep Teeth Brite!

Elegiacally titled "Without You," it's a neat little stage set of an installation, which has the precise effect of underscoring the staginess of so much of Hopper's painting.

Shelley tells the story almost entirely from Ceres's point of view; "her play elegiacally praises female creativity and fecundity as 'Leaf, and blade, and bud, and blossom.' "

Beth Custer's original score, with a clarinet solo rising elegiacally, extends the sense of desolation as the dancers propel themselves across the stage in a variety of ways, often close to the floor.

Their camera rests elegiacally on two Hopperesque receptionists at the hipster hot spot, the Hotel on Rivington on the Lower East Side, but mostly, their pictures are literal, more evidence than art.

After a gentle beginning in which bells toll elegiacally and a voice contemplates the color blue and its associations, the screenplay narrows in on the film maker's physical problems, of which the most acute is failing eyesight.

The acts are tremendously variegated; in these 800 and more pages, human faces teem, landscapes and interiors are elegiacally documented, a thousand three-dimensional objects cast realistic shadows, time is phosphorescent, moods coagulate and dissolve.

A flowing country-folk ballad, written by Mr. Henley, the former lead singer of the Eagles, with Bruce Hornsby, who plays piano, "The End of the Innocence" reflects elegiacally on personal and political disenchantment.

The Rev. Virgil Elizondo, the rector of San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio, elegiacally defines this slippage for Suro: "I can tell by looking in their eyes how long they've been here.

A LTHOUGH "Unforgiven" was probably not intended as an allegory of America's righteous war against Saddam Hussein in 1991, it may certainly be construed as a justification of necessary violence, however elegiacally framed.

His memories of these days, roaming the edge of the beach with his friend, Sandy Clegg, are memorably, elegiacally recorded: "Nobody bothered to nag them not to go near the edge and not to swim out of their depth.

Indeed, it was Diana Trilling who at the close of her memoir, "The Beginning of the Journey," wrote elegiacally of "the life of significant contention," which that cranky, opinion-toting group known as the New York Intellectuals specialized in.