In fact it had a kind of elegiac tone.

At its best, there is a magical elegiac tone.

In the end, though, it is the elegiac tone of the storytelling that makes this unhappy tale so haunting.

As the title suggests, most of the stories have an elegiac tone.

H paused, and his voice took on an elegiac tone it had lacked before.

The effect of the passing of the era can be felt in the book's elegiac tone.

There is, accordingly, a baleful, elegiac tone to the whole thing, a sense of expectations waiting to be crushed.

The barrage of negative advertising continued, but some candidates adopted an almost elegiac tone to their final arguments.

A bitter elegiac tone marks the last third of the book.

More of a remembrance book than part of the set, it has a distinct elegiac tone.