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Recent Examples of elegyMuch of the chapter is like an elegy to what would be lost.—Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 5 Aug. 2025 Bulgakov’s novel The White Guard, published in 1925 and set at the same time, is an elegy for Tsarist Kyiv that detests both Ukrainian national aspirations and Bolshevik rule.—Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025 What if Durham’s vision for the sequel could be turned inside out, undergoing a transformation like The Greatest from retrospective to comeback, elegy to unfinished story.—Melina Moe
may 19, Literary Hub, 19 May 2025 The Stalemate is part wacky buddy comedy, part poignant Western elegy – and just straight up a ton of fun.—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for elegy
There’s nothing shiny and new to get excited about and so the apathy and dirge hasn’t been replaced.
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George Caulkin,
New York Times,
13 Aug. 2025
Wylde seemed right at home recreating the droning opening dirge as the band slowed down into a stellar stoney groove throughout a standout moment Saturday night.
Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.
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Megan Thomas,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
More than a century later, jazz pianist and composer Bobby West gives her what she was denied: a requiem.
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