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But there’s a vital element missing from this elegiac seaside picture.—
Rob Crossan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Mar. 2026 -
But the Robert Redford prone to elegiac meditations on the human condition is well-evoked here.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Mar. 2026
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Its most melancholy scene of all involves Willy Loman, a traveling salesman who has given his unnamed company the best years of his now weary life, walking into the head office only to be humiliated by the callow young man who now runs his company and could not give a damn about him.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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A lot of the dances turned out to be slightly melancholy.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Sitting opposite an old people’s home in a residential corner of Paris’ 14th arrondissement, La Santé’s unassuming presence is only given away by the occasional wailing siren as prisoners are transported to and from the site.—
Joseph Ataman,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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Newcastle’s record against the present top 11 is lamentable, with only four league wins from 17 matches.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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That lack of trust in America, and in particular the American president, is understandable, but deeply lamentable.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (1997) Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain is an aching, tender slow burn shaped by absence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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The dramatic and aching second movement, according to Egarr, may have been a love letter to one of Beethoven’s romantic interests.—
Sheila Regan,
Twin Cities,
21 Feb. 2026
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True to the genre’s name, the blues could be bawdy, humorously describing the pleasures of the flesh, or sorrowful, conveying heart-wrenching despair.—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
20 Mar. 2026
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Season 2’s prevailing tone is at once more serious and less sorrowful.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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In a news release shared by the Riverside County Sheriff's Office, investigators said that they were made aware of several theft victims who had things stolen from their cars while attending funeral services at the cemetery, which is located in the 22000 block of Van Buren Boulevard.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
6 Apr. 2026
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Cyrene then instructs her son to appease the nymphs, Eurydice’s companions, and to make funeral offerings to Eurydice’s husband Orpheus.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
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Black Hills bucket-listing aside, time here is best spent tubing and fishing on the river, luxuriating in the infrared sauna, or listening to a doleful coyote song under a blanket of stars.—
Ashlea Halpern,
Time,
12 Mar. 2026
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With their large hands and expressive, doleful faces, the great apes are often depicted as the poster children for experimentation.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Dirgelike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirgelike. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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