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Recent Examples of elegize
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegize
mourn
Verb
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Few around Toronto will mourn the loss of Primeau on waivers to the Hurricanes.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Dolphins in the wild have been known to mourn the loss of their young, with one grieving dolphin mother carrying the body of her deceased calf for days off the coast of New Zealand in 2019.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Elegize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegize. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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