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Adjective
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The elegiac Terenti Graneli was the nation’s most significant poet for 800 years.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
29 May 2026 -
The elegiac opening and closing chapters, in which Crowther imagines visiting Monroe’s home and scanning her shelves, also add to the feeling that too much is being extrapolated out of not enough information.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2026
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Lines that seem artlessly off-the-cuff on first pass accrue an unexpected weight and purpose the fourth time through; the countrified guitar lick that sounds so chipper at the start of a song is dripping with melancholy by the end.—
Stuart Berman,
Pitchfork,
4 June 2026
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Louis’s memories form an immersive, spellbinding confession of betrayal, murder, and melancholy with palpable sensuality.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
2 June 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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Ella, whose innocent, concerned face shows an interest in reading her father’s moods, has picked up that a new horizon isn’t entirely lamentable.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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The coarsening of the debate is lamentable, but that’s not the same thing as saying coarse criticism is an incitement to violence.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
28 Apr. 2026
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But these are quibbles when a movie conjures a world as aching and in-between as the one in The Meltdown.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 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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There were women like her—some Indigenous and some African-looking sorrowful in their coarse linen shifts, huddling together.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
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Along with intermittent rain, gray skies have accompanied the sorrowful mood that has permeated throughout the garage this weekend in Concord.—
Jordan Bianchi,
New York Times,
23 May 2026
Adjective
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Archaeologists excavating an ancient cemetery in Cairo have found a cache of burial objects that could shed new light on funeral practices in one of Egypt‘s most important religious centers.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
1 June 2026
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Wotus coached third base for four games last week while Borg was in the Dominican Republic to attend funeral services for his grandmother.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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Morris was closemouthed about her origins, but enumerated her various conditions with a kind of doleful enjoyment.—
Stephen King,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
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The Canadian filmmaker Sophy Romvari does something similar with the new movie Blue Heron, a semi-autobiographical piece whose structure loops in on itself, melding fact and fiction into a doleful portrait of a family tragedy.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Dirgelike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirgelike. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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