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Recent Examples of elegy
Hynes’ stirring melodies sew together Essex Honey’s styles and collaborators—including Caroline Polachek, Tirzah, and cellist Mabe Fratti—into a profound and elegantly understated tapestry of elegy, memory, and surprise.
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Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
Sorkin’s brand of idealism suddenly felt like science fiction — an elegy for a republic that mistook grift for governance.
—Alexis Coe, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2025
Immigration tales tend to adopt a hybrid form—part elegy for life in the home country, part hymn to the promise of the new.
—Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2025
At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
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Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
Sorkin’s brand of idealism suddenly felt like science fiction — an elegy for a republic that mistook grift for governance.
—Alexis Coe, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2025
Immigration tales tend to adopt a hybrid form—part elegy for life in the home country, part hymn to the promise of the new.
—Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2025
At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegy
Noun
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This morning, the eminent critic Dwight Garner published a lament for the institutional book critic—via his own institution, The New York Times.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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The sinew between Thundercat and Tame Impala is thick and obvious—one reason that Bruner doesn’t need ubiquitous Kevin Parker’s lethargic laments.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
Pitchfork,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This offers respite from the music ever feeling too dirge-like.—
Brendan Hay,
SPIN,
1 May 2026
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The pioneering alt-country band returns with its first album in 30 years—a set of cryptic, languid dirges that feels defiantly out-of-time.—
Zach Schonfeld,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The biggest difference is probably how Laurie plays the final requiem.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
4 May 2026
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Any story is a history in which politics and event are portrayed in human terms—not as tract or politics but as inquiry, warning, requiem.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Elegy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegy. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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