elegiac in a sentence

Examples

1. In tribute, Twombly painted the elegiac " Nini s Paintings ".
2. It is one of the best extant specimens of Greek elegiac poetry.
3. The elegiac dramatists delight in " showing off " their Latin skills.
4. The neoclassical shows influences from the Latin elegiacs and the Spanish classics.
5. Twombly's work can also be exuberant and earthy, or elegiac.
6. For them, Wayne always struck an elegiac note.
7. The Cello Sonata, of 1901, and the " Elegiac"
8. The final image, like the entire piece, has an elegiac purity.
9. Nevertheless, they weaken these otherwise luminously elegiac stories.
10. Even as a young man, Merwin wrote poems in the elegiac mode.