Adjective : elegiac strains. From Dictionary.com.
My story, "The Last Elegy", takes up where the word elegiacal left off. From Wordnik.com. [Back in the Saddle] Reference
What stories have I written that couldn't, in some way or another, be described as elegiacal?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
And then I saw the word "elegiacal", and I knew that would provide the solution. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
Many poems are therefore elegiacal that are not strictly elegies. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
With different words, you could run it as an elegiacal piece for someone dead. From Wordnik.com. [Pro-Hillary 527 Ad: "It Takes More" Than Speeches] Reference
The story is both elegiacal and optimistic in a rather typically science fictional way. From Wordnik.com. [Choose Your Own Apocalypse] Reference
Moving from place to place like some elegiacal Wanderer meant I didn't have a good run at making new friends either. From Wordnik.com. [How cool is the internet?] Reference
Self-elegiacal in tone, and unconditionally proleptic, this passage suggests that the imperial spread of English is an as-yet-unfinished and ineluctable project, a reform tied to the labors of individuals and of institutions. From Wordnik.com. [A Teleology of Letters; or, From a] Reference
Often, too, the novels and stories that most appeal to me as a reader are ones with at least a hint of the elegiacal in them, partly because memory and time fascinate me with their twinned ability to haunt us with the ghosts of all we have lost. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
Death is on all sides of him with pointed batteries, as he is on all sides of all of us; unfortunate surprises gird him round; mim-mouthed friends and relations hold up their hands in quite a little elegiacal synod about his path: and what cares he for all this?. From Wordnik.com. [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference
All the elegiacal poets, and André Chénier in particular, have evinced recollections of him. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
It blends the passion of personal regret with the dignity of public grief, as all great elegiacal poems should. From Wordnik.com. [Raleigh] Reference
The sentiment was very different from that which animated Bach's Adagio; it was more human, more earthly, more elegiacal. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of Pleasure] Reference
It is an exquisite addition to a branch of English literature, which is already very rich, the poetry of elegiacal regret. From Wordnik.com. [Gossip in a Library] Reference
Previous singles Get Familiar and the Young Heartbreak EP combined the dusty with the digital; they were crisp and modern yet somehow elegiacal and evocative of some long-lost psychedelic summer that never was. From Wordnik.com. [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference
He did so while taking up, though less subtly, Jefferson’s patronizing and elegiacal tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Chosen Peoples] Reference
Lois McMaster Bujold’s elegant, elegiacal masterpiece “Aftermaths” brings grace and sorrow into the silence between stars. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
More elegiacal, perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
"Now, youth," continued his worship, "if in our clemency we should spare thy life, study this higher elegiacal strain which thou hast carried with thee from Oxford; it containeth, over and above an unusual store of biography, much sound moral doctrine, for those who are heedful in the weighing of it. From Wordnik.com. [Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk] Reference
His writings were epical, lyrical, tragical, satirical, and especially elegiacal. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
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