How To Use Elegiac In A Sentence

It is in Latin elegiac verse, and as being directed against ambition and discontent may be compared with the first satire of Horace. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
With its elegiac note of a civilisation falling apart while two old men continue their moves toward checkmate, the story is a luminous exploration of a culture that is both realisable yet tantalisingly intangible.
Things are more sombre and serious in the second half, giving way to a darker, more elegiac mood. Times, Sunday Times
Irina recounted Rostov’s history in elegiac tones. Escape to Old Russia
Both catch the film's elegiac mood, bathed in southern sunshine but overhung with impending death.

IMAGINE that you are a teacher of Roman history and the Latin language, anxious to impart your enthusiasm for the ancient world – for the elegiacs of Ovid and the odes of Horace, the sinewy economy of Latin grammar as exhibited in the oratory of Cicero, the strategic niceties of the Punic Wars, the generalship of Julius Caesar and the voluptuous excesses of the later emperors. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
His surviving poems are all written in elegiac couplets, with the exception of the Metamorphoses, which is in hexameters. Letter 56
‘Typhoon’ ties all the elements into an expressionist's cloud - bright splashes and rough scratches, calls, Fernandez's elegiac guitar, heavy African polyrhythms and an incessantly looped vocal sample.
Her photographs, though in one sense a documentary of her life, have an elegiac quality. Times, Sunday Times
By the way, I think it's a wonderful scene. an elegiac scene, very touching.
What was a masterful, elegiac character study in the mould of Le Carré's classic A Perfect Spy becomes an angry disquisition on contemporary geopolitics.
With that said, there's really nothing bad about this affair - it's mournful, haunting, stirring, elegiac…
He employed the classical elegiacs and alcaics with ease, and was equally at home with trochaic and iambic lines.
Numerous proleptically elegiac poems share this prediction, foregrounding the silence that will replace consolatory language in the new round of suffering.
For _impar_ used of elegiac verse, compare Hor _AP_ 75 (the earliest instance) 'uersibus _impariter_ iunctis', _Am_ II xvii 21, _Am_ III i The Last Poems of Ovid
Later events echoed an elegiac note first struck in 1892.
The waltzes, polkas, reels, and dumkas (the dumka is a ballad-form, in which elegiac and fast tempi alternate) of his native Bohemia were successfully integrated into classical structures.
In between, there are virtuoso showpieces, hilarious buffo send-ups, and elegiac romances, all enhanced by imaginative instrumental accompaniments.
Also notable is Charlie Chaplin's elegiac 1952 talkie, Limelight, about the last days of an old vaudevillian.
These are punctuated in somber and sorrowful moments by elegiac strings.
The mood, however, is consistently elegiac, without the contrasts that might rivet the attention throughout.
And now here is a book which is mostly poetry, or at least a kind of elegiac wistfulness.
In the final stages of emphysema he summoned up the energy to make his final film, a British-German-American co-production based on an elegiac short story.
In poems written entirely in hexameters the break is possibly not quite so rare as in elegiacs.
The room has an elegiac quality. Times, Sunday Times
As the book closes, it becomes transformed into a moving, elegiac memoir for the writer's parents.
Smith's innovation in the Elegiac Sonnets derives from the ways in which the formal traditions of sonnet and elegy converge.
Only the last haunting and elegiac shot of the steam train bearing the wounded Ned back to Melbourne and his hanging carry a real resonance.
Its tone is consummately elegiac and mournful.
The elegiac sonnet provides this opportunity for the poet, for it literally becomes a song of mourning.
To this conduce the elegiac tone of the Lamentations, which is only occasionally interrupted by intermediate tones of hope; the complaints against false prophets and against the striving after the favour of foreign nations; the verbal agreements with the Book of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
My story, "The Last Elegy", takes up where the word elegiacal left off. Archive 2007-04-01
Rhapsodic, ironic, elegiac and disillusioned, the urban sketch, for all its sparkle, tended toward melancholy.
He also wrote numerous poems in elegiac distichs.
Othos; six comedies, the praises of the Blessed Virgin, and St. Dennis in elegiac verse, with other works. Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
He goes on to extol especially the epigrammatic power of the elegiac distich by translating numerous specimens from the elegiac writings of Goethe and Schiller.
Colors tend to be exquisite, but in an unusual way, at once vivid and fading, as if a still-potent splendor were half-vanishing before one's eyes, introducing a vaguely mournful, even elegiac tone.
Although the work ended in renewal, it was deeply elegiac.
The long, elegiac camera movements with pained moments of concentration on detail make the lens into the eye of a narrator and effectively take us on the tragic journey which is Hamlet.
For Dvorák's Trio Number 4 in E Minor, Opus 90, B.166, they surrendered their smooth tone for more folk-like nuances, as is appropriate to the work's nature; the dumkas (Slavic folk songs) were elegiac, and the lively sections sparkled with dynamic contrasts.
Whatever the case, you may rest assured that his tone remains hauntingly elegiac at all times.
What stories have I written that couldn't, in some way or another, be described as elegiacal? Elegiacal
That's a fantastic micro-dispute to consider, since Eisler, far from undertaking a wholesale genre-stripping or programmatic levelling of still-too-high and auratic elegiac verse, instead so virtuosically runs Schubertian and Schumannesque lieder, French chanson, and Schönbergian twelve-tone composition in and out of one another, that it is hard to miss the settings 'recognizably Modernist tour de force of newly-achieved form and voice. Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin
Translated, these Latin elegiacs mean: Breasts, O mother, milk and life thou didst give.
Quite naturally, then, the elegiac strain is central to Indran's oeuvre.
This journey is leading into the emotional interzone of middle-age, contained in the elegiac final section of his memoir. Times, Sunday Times
A soundtrack of mournful chanting gives the whole work an elegiac quality.
Walton, who in early days dabbled in atonality, eventually settled for neo-romanticism and his Viola Concerto is a most elegiac composition.
With different words, you could run it as an elegiacal piece for someone dead. Pro-Hillary 527 Ad: "It Takes More" Than Speeches
His poems use images of death and dying, and he has written elegiac poems to lost friends and family members.
He recorded his emotion in elegiac lines of magnificent dignity.
The cartoon is very elegiac, it's a monody of the holy creature, a rare scene only in the length and breadth of the land of the highest land of the earth.
Most local histories end on an elegiac note, mourning the decline of the ‘community’ which, they imply, was once coterminous with their locality.
It moves in lengthened elegiac measure like a song of lamentation for the dead, and is full of lofty scorn" [Herder]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The film is an elegiac poem, one with deep felt un-maudlin sympathy.
It's an elegiac and lyrical single-act play that is haunted by the death of a teenage girl, Roslyn, whom we never meet.
It is deservedly a classic - a most gorgeously written, elusively elegiac, delicate evocation of a vanished way of life, and an almost vanished way of thinking and being in the world.
I sensed, at once, his feel for the period, but I was a long time understanding the quality in him which ultimately made the film the triumph that it is: that is, his elegiac sense. Film flam
Nonetheless, it is a beautiful, elegiac work of art, at once powerfully iconic and subdued.
The result is a beautiful book whose elegiac tone is quickened by the writer's own warmth and wit.
Wilson is a natural orator, and the finest passages in the book are elegiac songs of life and wistful recollections of lost habitats, extinct flora and fauna.
an elegiac poem on a friend's death
They're poems, written in verse in the first person, elegiac in format.
Moving from place to place like some elegiacal Wanderer meant I didn't have a good run at making new friends either. How cool is the internet?
Underneath the movie, which is set on the eve of World War I, there's an elegiac plangency that stays with you long after the shocks have worn off. The Return Of A Bloody Great Classic
We have become used to speaking of the old religions in an elegiac mode. The Times Literary Supplement
In a complementary work Karimi showed an elegiac video in which the camera meanders through unpeopled caves and along sandy beaches.
This is primarily a period piece and, as you might expect from the elegiac nature of the film, the pace is appropriately funereal.
Lopate has spent nearly six decades living in that vortex and grappling with its contradictions by cultivating an essayistic style that's lyrical and historical, elegiac and pragmatic, steely and serene, affable and brash.
The ambitious listener might better start from the level of Chopin's melodious piano music, or Grieg's northern elegiacs or Tchaikovsky's gorgeous colorfulness. Quincy Jones: Arts Education in America
They wanted music that was high on elegiacal melancholy and escapist fantasy. Times, Sunday Times
Smith's ‘illegitimate’ sonnet consists of three elegiac quatrains and a couplet, thus combining both English elegiac meters.
And now here is a book which is mostly poetry, or at least a kind of elegiac wistfulness.
The elegiac note is prominent in André Chénier and the painters and sculptors of the return to antiq - uity. CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
The wistful elegiac moods of the Sonnets, were conveyed with just the right balance of outward expression and gesture, and delicate tonal control.
The rhythm of 1970s TV seem so unusual now that they add to the sense that you are watching something wholly other: long, slow scenes; wordy dialogue; and elegiac tracking shots of an empty England.
The story is both elegiacal and optimistic in a rather typically science fictional way. Archive 2010-01-01
an elegiac lament for youthful ideals
Elegiac and archly insightful, the quality of the writing displays a striking talent, and one that stays in the memory long after the varied merits of the performances fade.
The metres most often employed are elegiac, hendecasyllabic, and the scazon. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
And it is the subsequent mourning for two English romantics in this same poem, Wordsworth following Byron, that gets more than its share of the prelinguistic "Ah" — and with it a subtextual roiling of further elegiac energy at the phonemic level. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
In trying to be nostalgic about the then ubiquitous sounds of choice in the radio, the author has verily sung its ‘demise’ in elegiac terms, that one can feel in self-generated empathy.
I much prefer how it looks here to the appearance of the 70mm print that turned up in Britain last year, faded to amber appropriately elegiac, maybe, but that kind of inadvertency can pall. VIDEO WATCHDOG's Favorite DVDs of 2008
This is primarily a period piece and, as you might expect from the elegiac nature of the film, the pace is appropriately funereal.
Berger has found the perfect form for his elegiac, still-hopeful revelation of the worth of us all, so easily stolen by time.
Her pessimism and elegiac outlook could only perceive the contemporary social and political developments of indigenous peoples as a slow decline and erosion of tradition.
These are somber moments on a solemn quest, and the book, with its repeated explorations of solitude, grief, remembrance and loss is elegiac—lachrymose, even. On Holy Ground
= A constant problem for the Latin poets was the impossibility of using words with cretic patterns (a long syllable, followed by a short syllable, followed by another long syllable) in hexameter or elegiac verse. The Last Poems of Ovid
From the opening brass fanfares to the insouciance of the finale, the piece evokes images of mounted guardsmen, band shells in Bath, kids with pennywhistles, and even the elegiac promptings of night.
The new album draws its main inspiration from the band's annual tours of the Highlands and islands, much of it - aptly enough - striking an elegiac or valedictory note.
He used to recite dirge songs and had established a unique status for his touching elegiac tone.
An infuriating, idiosyncratic critic can’t help but be elegiac in cataloguing the history of film. The Reel Thing
The novel also proves that literary fiction doesn't have to be elegiac in tone to be successful.
In order to exhume further the elegy in the Elegiac Sonnets, we now might consider the extent to which the work resonates with traditional notions of ‘elegiac’ and the elegy as a poem of mourning.
Through the narrative, the poet's elegiacs become a leitmotif.
The third movement's elegiac tone places it in line with the great Russian lament tradition.
In the long poems, the first and last are metrically related to the neighbouring shorter poems: poem 61 is in lyric metre, 65-8 in elegiacs.
There are virtuoso showpieces, hilarious buffo send-ups, and elegiac romances, all enhanced by imaginative instrumental accompaniments.
The problem of audience provides the most apt segue into the elegiac elements of the poems.
Her poetry has an elegiac quality.
The Elegiacs may be rhymed or not.
This is now her lyrical keynote: an elegiac scorn for glitzier, ritzier days, a remembrance of bling past. Times, Sunday Times
Things are more sombre and serious in the second half, giving way to a darker, more elegiac mood. Times, Sunday Times
Ford's writing is never more his signature than when he combines a wistful, elegiac feeling of loss with an indomitable instinct to carry on.
The poems ranged across these six sections vary from the lyrical to the elegiac to the downright silly.
In many places his descriptions are lyrical, elegiac, and effortlessly compelling.
One poem, for instance, embeds a kind of elegiac tone in its simple vocabulary: language is an unregulated process of memorializing in the process of forgetting.
Ovid, the elegiac poet who was a contemporary of Livy, quotes her as saying to Tarquinius, ‘Why, victor, do you rejoice?’
This opening cluster of poems in the book advocates ‘not knowing’ as an elegiac mode of creative forgetfulness and of clear-sighted, forwardlooking memory.
There is something of an elegiac quality about his substantial book on magazine design. Times, Sunday Times
The writings of these historians sometimes acquired an elegiac quality. The Times Literary Supplement
Except the fifth elegy, which is tainted with immodesty, the others, particularly the first, are highly beautiful, and may be placed in competition with any other productions of the elegiac kind. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
It could be set in the east, but it wouldn't be as poignant and poetic and elegiacal.
What happens to the three survivors becomes a wild and suspenseful adventure they are faced, on one hand, with reputed man-eating headhunters -- and Japanese troops on the other -- but the adventure remains touched by the elegiac, an abiding sense of loss for those left at the crash site, as the three struggle to remain alive. Carol Muske-Dukes: Lost in Shangri-La
Smith transforms Petrarch's conceit into an expansive metaphor for the Elegiac Sonnets and the way their poet mimics the nightingale's mournful song throughout.
Such an elegiac tone, whilst being, as all retrospective accounts of one's past are, self-serving, at least reminds us that the young Freud did not metamorphose directly into the implacable patriarchal disapprover of Grosskurth's somewhat barren imagination. Schadenfreud
On the flyleaf was a Greek elegiac couplet in which Dover had managed (1) to use in an apposite and humorous way a Greek word whose meaning we had discussed in a co-authored article, disputing its translation with John Finnis; (2) to express pleasure at the collaboration; and (3) to compare the "daring" outspokenness of our article to that of his own memoir-all with not only impeccable meter and style, but also graciousness, wit, and elegance. The New Republic - All Feed
The cartoon is very elegiac, it's a monody of the holy creature, a rare scene only in the length and breadth of the land of the highest land of the earth.
Not only did the band's name prefigure the attacks, but so did the album's elegiac art work of angels tracing empyrean paths to a fiery orange heaven.
Not only does it oblige us to face the discomfiting reality of death and the uncertainty of resurrection, but it also throws our pieties into confusion by interweaving death with beauty, the elegiac with the sensuous.
Her poetry has an elegiac quality.
Again, many of the so-called epideictic epigrams are little more than stories told shortly in elegiac verse, much like the stories in Ovid's Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
And then I saw the word "elegiacal", and I knew that would provide the solution. Archive 2007-12-01
Not merely is there the familiar trope of the ‘wounded civilisation’, there is also the elegiac evocation of the destruction of Vijayanagara.
What he does remember, however, strikes a poignant, elegiac note.
But why did the consolation have to be in verse, no tradition yet existing of elegiac poems for people of lower rank than the nobility?
But as the mournful, elegiac music began to gently move through the air, and voices, distinct and intense, began to tell their tale, in their own words, something incredible happened.
This is now her lyrical keynote: an elegiac scorn for glitzier, ritzier days, a remembrance of bling past. Times, Sunday Times
Things are more sombre and serious in the second half, giving way to a darker, more elegiac mood. Times, Sunday Times
Hexameters are the epic meter; by stealing a foot in the second line, Cupid has turned it into elegiac meter, used for love poetry.

How To Use Elegiac In A Sentence

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