Like some of Thomas Gray's poetry

• Mournful
• Expressing poetic sorrow for something past
• Sad English stage actor denied rise to tour India
• Like a Thomas Gray work
• Plaintive, as a poem
• Legacies largely corrupt - sad
• Like Berg's "Violin Concerto"

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adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ elegiac verse EXAMPLES FROM 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 ...

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The adjective elegiac has two possible meanings. First, it can refer to something of, relating to, or involving, an elegy or something that expresses similar mournfulness or sorrow. Second, it can refer more specifically to poetry composed in the form of ...