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Recent Examples of elegy
Working with longtime collaborators John Collins and Nicolas Bragg, the funk-rock elegies and New Romantic jaunts turn brittle and deliberate.
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Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
Schmuhl’s chapter on Churchill’s experience as President Dwight Eisenhower’s guest, starting in 1953, reads like an elegy, since the jet age was emerging, and quicker diplomatic trips became the standard.
—Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2024
Shades of Thornton Wilder and John Steinbeck flicker in this elegy to the down and out, the dreamers and the sinners who lose everything, even their sense of themselves.
—Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2024
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Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
Schmuhl’s chapter on Churchill’s experience as President Dwight Eisenhower’s guest, starting in 1953, reads like an elegy, since the jet age was emerging, and quicker diplomatic trips became the standard.
—Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2024
Shades of Thornton Wilder and John Steinbeck flicker in this elegy to the down and out, the dreamers and the sinners who lose everything, even their sense of themselves.
—Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegy
Noun
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But these laments seemed to reach a crescendo during the Biden administration, which was seen as too focused on the United States’ growing rivalry with Beijing and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East to devote even minimal bandwidth to its southern neighbors.Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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Opponents lament diverting taxpayer funding from public schools to private ones and point to examples of misuse of funds, like buying dune buggies.Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2024
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The hand drums, played here by Keith, make this one spooky dirge.Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
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Following long minutes of silence, a dirge of bagpipes began streaming from the church, suddenly growing loud as 10 pipers emerged with a corps of drummers behind, playing on as pallbearers rolled the casket out.Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
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No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger, no macaque will write a requiem for piano and violin.Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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The Last Showgirl is a requiem for any woman who has ever been underestimated because of her beauty, her choices, or her art (so, essentially, every woman ever to exist).Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
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“Elegy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegy. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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