elegaic

(I had written several hundred words of detailed thanks, including an extended lyrical metaphor in elegaic form, comparing JB with Socrates - minus the hemlock and pederasty - but after a read through I cut the lot)

Cheeseburger Gothic » More of a Friday Writing Thought than a Friday Writing Blog. 2009

Mr. Whitehead is never sentimental, yet in his hands the blandly upscale décor of a law firm or the mass-produced tchotchkes of a Bennigans-type chain achieve the pang of the elegaic—it's our own world, but given back to us as a lost dream.

Instinct With Hellish Life James Kennedy 2011

It's mainly quiet music, with both men favouring improvisational bursts rather than sustained grooves, but older originals such as the elegaic Wistful Thinking will receive a new sheen from Fresu's warm sound.

This week's new live music 2011

Lee, who made these particular rice paper cutouts in 2008 and 2009, presaged the natural and nuclear crises that have put the world on edge in recent weeks, and her elegaic work feels appropriate where other art might seem garish.

Bovey Lee's Elegaic Crisis Cutouts Inspired By Japan's Tsunami And Power Plants The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Lee, who made these particular rice paper cutouts in 2008 and 2009, presaged the natural and nuclear crises that have put the world on edge in recent weeks, and her elegaic work feels appropriate where other art might seem garish.

Bovey Lee's Elegaic Crisis Cutouts Inspired By Japan's Tsunami And Power Plants The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

DM is and oddly kind and elegaic book, and it also largely takes place in Madison, where Wiscon occurs, and therefore the source of a lot of delight at recognizing locales.

Peter Straub's A Dark Matter yuki_onna 2010

An elegaic tone creeps in to Atkinson's latest but the author's control of her fictional universe is total, writes Justine Jordan

Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson Justine Jordan 2010

As she describes her journey to a place where abortions were performed, she repeats elegaic lines:

Blog for Choice Day: Poetry « Gender Across Borders 2010

All the sense of loss born of the elegaic tone is suddenly bound to a deeper negativity, the nostalgic wistfulness of the Western fused with the weary and cynical hopelessness of Crime.

Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Peter O'Toole's performance in the bittersweet comedy Venus caused a mass, elegaic outbreak of Philip Larkin quotations among critics.

Have mercy, take pity: The A-Team catchphrase is about to go viral 2010