2 example sentences using elegiac.
Elegiac used in a sentence
Elegiac in a sentence as an adjective
The problem is, who is likely to find On the Road an escapist, elegiac, seductive fantasy?
Flights were grounded en masse at the turn of millennium and the bizarre quiet of the skies over the San Francisco Peninsula gave me a sort of surreal feeling that made me think, contrary to the elegiac vision of the author of this piece, "what would it have been like to have been born, lived, and died without planes, electricity, running water, and other modern conveniences and probably fallen victim to some pestilent disease by the time I was 30, just like my great-great-great grandparents did back in the villages of Greece from which they never traveled more than 25 miles during their entire lifetimes?
Elegiac definitions
resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"
expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"