This elegiac exchange occurred in the comments to my post, Big Pharma: What Went Wrong?
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In short, this is an elegiac Western, which tends to be the only variety that you see nowadays.
As an elegiac portrait of a writer, widowed and lonely because his daughter has a testy husband, this is a gem.
An affecting element of this book is the way its elegiac impulses accord with, even as they chafe against, the documentary impulses.
There was something elegiac about Mr Liu's little corner of the world.
This is an elegiac Western that somehow manages to be as funny and rambunctious and exciting as the unself-conscious genre classics of yesteryear.
Four songs from those sessions, elegiac ballads that include two Bob Dylan covers, landed on Ms. Raitt's new album, "Slipstream, " due April 10.
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The programme for the forthcoming Prom 51 will now include Elgar's Symphony No. 2, which features appropriately elegiac music, replacing Sibelius's Symphony No. 2.
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Over 32 poems Mr Hill traces an elegiac sequence for Lawes and his music, intermingling the historical events around his death with flashes of the everyday.
The view taken by Clint Eastwood, directing from Iris Yamashita's exemplary screenplay, is elegiac, but -- and this is remarkable, given the nature of the production and the sweep of his ambition -- not at all didactic.
Named for the iconic British actress and credited here to Carla Bley and Terry Adams (of NRBQ), it succeeds with an elegiac recurring motif, overtones of folk and the blues, rapturous glissandos, and an expert grasp of volume dynamics.
Every Breath You Take, written during the break-up of Sting's marriage, is a portrait of a stalker, Stairway To Heaven a confused jumble of Celtic magic and Wordsworth, and My Way, while possessed of a certain elegiac quality, is the most egotistical piece of braggadocio ever pressed onto vinyl.
That appeared to be the elegiac theme of their final chapter: a warm acknowledgment by us, to whom they gave a better world, that we understood and honored their steadfastness -- that we appreciated and were moved by the uncomplaining way they had made it through their hardest years.
One such film is "Colorado Territory" (1949), in which Raoul Walsh transformed his own "High Sierra" (1941), a classic portrait of an aging gangster played by Humphrey Bogart, into an elegiac western starring Joel McCrea, taking the opportunity to trim away the sentimentality of "High Sierra" and replace it with hard stoicism.
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