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The trope tends to elegize artists who are perceived to be ahead of their time or otherwise inimical to regnant conventions.
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Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
Spielberg h as chosen to elegize the story by romanticizing it, swathing the characters in Norman Rockwell attitudes, a meddlesome symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that shines through the windows like God's blessing.
—Eliza Berman, Time, 5 Oct. 2017
In writing about her cousin, Allen is also elegizing other black men victimized by poverty, drugs and unequal justice.
—Julia M. Klein, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
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Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
Spielberg h as chosen to elegize the story by romanticizing it, swathing the characters in Norman Rockwell attitudes, a meddlesome symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that shines through the windows like God's blessing.
—Eliza Berman, Time, 5 Oct. 2017
In writing about her cousin, Allen is also elegizing other black men victimized by poverty, drugs and unequal justice.
—Julia M. Klein, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
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“Elegize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elegize. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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