(a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
(a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
(n.) Elegiac verse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The novel's "elegiac strain lifts a personal story into a more intriguing one .
(2) He has taken various elements of the war, and translated their brutality into elegiac works, as with Freedom Qashoush Symphony, a delicate song which starts with rattled off gunfire, the symphony culminates in an urgent instrumental cry of freedom, inspired by Ibrahim al-Qashoush, an early symbol of rebel martyrdom.
(3) But recounting the story of one of the key experiences of European integration, the painter and decorator sounded elegiac, as if describing not current realities but those of a lamented past.
(4) The book partakes of the elegiac long before, even, the wrenching and brief final chapter, which in that distinctive calm prose acknowledges pain, the death that is coming, the fears of that death, and the therapeutic nature of what we have just read.
(5) Though the first Orange prize was not awarded until 1996, when the Canadian poet Anne Michaels won it for her elegiac Holocaust novel Fugitive Pieces , the founding committee celebrated its 20th birthday this year.
(6) A lament for the failed ideals of a group of 1960s Cambridge graduates who all too quickly swap their literary dreams for coffee table books and hack journalism, the play was an elegiac threnody for soiled friendship and a descent from intellectual rigour and seriousness to philistinism.
(7) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
(8) The main thing that struck a chord was not the profligacy of supermarkets but the elegiac decay of the bagged salad: more than two-thirds of it thrown out, half by customers, half by stores.
(9) This footage of the remaining “red cars” (as the Pacific Electric’s fleet was commonly known) strikes an elegiac tone, especially to modern Angelenos.
(10) – elegiac, melodic, free from lyrics about shopping.
(11) Glue recycles some elements of Thorne’s past triumphs: the on-point indie soundtrack, the elegiac “last gang in town” feel, the tabloid-troubling teenage misdemeanours.
(12) For a poet to choose to document the moment of loss after finishing a novel may hint at mock-elegiac intentions.
(13) The elegiac mood around Mandela suggested that South Africans still find it easier to remember the long walk to freedom than to embark on a new journey.
(14) We in Afghanistan are suffering from the ugly side of globalisation, whether it is drugs, whether it is criminal networks or terrorism.” It is Cameron’s eighth trip as prime minister, and has an elegiac quality, even though it is a conflict he inherited and never wholly embraced.
(15) This corner of Berlin, remembered to such elegiac effect in Bowie's new work, is brighter, more prosperous and more efficient.
(16) Anderson told Screen International that it charts a watershed moment, narcotics-wise: “It’s that idea that when you’re smoking weed everything is OK, but as soon as heroin comes in everything is changed and everything is fucked, and that’s sad.” It’s more troubled and elegiac than Pynchon’s novel even , with less daffy musical interludes, more insistent harking-back to a lost Californian utopia – expressed through Doc’s search for his vanished “old lady” Shasta Fay Hepworth.
(17) In other ways excellent, the New York Times' piece had an elegiac tone, conveyed by the headline How the US Lost Out on iPhone Work .
(18) Rowan Williams , the Archbishop of Canterbury, in an elegiac, filmic farewell to the building – "a purpose-built factory for prayer" – and his job, is seen wandering through the enormous space from attics to crypts, turning the whole space into a valedictory sermon.
(19) Radiohead's much-trumpeted new single, their first in four years, a beautiful, intricately-wrought mesh of complex time signatures, keening vocals, elegiac strings and subtly disturbing audio effects called Pyramid Song, has been beaten to number one by Do You Really Like It?, by DJ Pied Piper and the Master of Ceremonies - perhaps the most unrepentantly stupid dance record since Jive Bunny hung up his tracksuit.
Hexameter
Definition:
(n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.
(a.) Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two possible structures are suggested that are compatible with the experimental data: (a) a hexosaminidase B like structure with higher extent of glycosylation; (b) a hexameter of beta chain, possibly arranged as three beta2 subunits.
(2) Though Lord Derby's version is in unrhymed iambic pentameters, rather than the dactylic hexameters of the original, the narrative retains the density of an exciting though tragic war novel, never matched for scenes of ferocity and courage and the maintenance of honour, with its graphic descriptions of ghastly wounds, nearly all of which result in death.