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- adverb In the manner of an
elegy , or funeral poem
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Examples
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"It was pure driving, pure racing," we hear him recall elegiacally.
'The Help': '60s Racism in Black and White Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Its meditative footage veers from water going over a falls, to a beautiful young woman being caressed by her lover, to an older woman putting on makeup or elegiacally at work in her garden, where her younger "self" later appears.
Art review: 'Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall' at the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery Blake Gopnik 2010
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But, for now, the boys recite from memory Frost's calm, elegiac poem before we tuck them into bed, though sometimes neither calmly nor elegiacally.
Parenting And Poetry: Why I Taught My Four-Year-Olds To Recite Frost 2010
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But, for now, the boys recite from memory Frost's calm, elegiac poem before we tuck them into bed, though sometimes neither calmly nor elegiacally.
Parenting And Poetry: Why I Taught My Four-Year-Olds To Recite Frost 2010
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Vertigo can be dramatized, ventriloquized, celebrated, satirized, elegiacally lamented or critiqued in poems.
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But, for now, the boys recite from memory Frost's calm, elegiac poem before we tuck them into bed, though sometimes neither calmly nor elegiacally.
Parenting And Poetry: Why I Taught My Four-Year-Olds To Recite Frost Jessie Kunhardt 2010
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This is no elegiacally noble film about the stern dignity of early mankind.
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Admirers speak angrily, sadly, almost elegiacally about opportunities lost, maybe irretrievably so.
The Year of Governing Dangerously Margolick, David 2008
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It was no good living elegiacally,in the past, or in cultivating self-pity; one must deny oneself those pleasures; one must forget to hate.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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It was no good living elegiacally,in the past, or in cultivating self-pity; one must deny oneself those pleasures; one must forget to hate.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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