Elegiac
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Beyond The Clouds is a hauntingly beautiful,
elegiac
work of art.
More example sentences with word elegiac
Mitchum's brilliant, idiosyncratic, usually undervalued Westerns import his film noir persona to etch some compellingly dark character sketches, and bring an
elegiac
world-weariness more familiar from the films of Sam Peckinpah.
Only Roger Ebert and the reviewer for Rolling Stone seem to see the truth here: this film is slow and
elegiac
because it deals with heavy matters, but it is never boring, not if you understand the situation and the depth of feelings being explored.
Rather, it had the
elegiac
mood and idiosyncratic details of a fine short story, with its characters neither good nor bad but human, their lives honestly and touchingly observed by a sensitive screenwriter and director.
They are so elegiac, elegant and sweet.
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