A playwright, of course, should be permitted his elegiac moods.

The short film effectively establishes the elegiac mood for all that follows.

Both catch the film's elegiac mood, bathed in southern sunshine but overhung with impending death.

The resulting documentary, despite its subject and its elegiac mood, was the least woolly movie of the year.

But it's perfectly in step with the band's current elegiac mood.

Together, the presence of the past and of music help give the show its strange, almost elegiac mood.

It got me in kind of an elegiac mood.

At the same time, shorter days and longer shadows cast a melancholy spell, and put the mind in an elegiac mood.

The story has a generally elegiac mood, an undercurrent of sadness leavened with humor throughout.

Scenes he pictured longingly when he was in elegiac mood.