Word: elegiac
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...doing something important, unprecedented and unbearably hard,” Sarah says in reference to raising a biracial child in a prejudiced community, with a superciliousness that makes for a typical target of Tassie’s witty internal monologue. Tassie’s tone careens between ribald and elegiac, making “A Gate at the Stairs” a novel to read with caution. Tassie’s familiar voice can distract from Moore’s understated style and her love of detail and word games...
...accounts, Paris is a city happily reconciled with death: its cemeteries, from Montparnasse to Montmartre and Père-Lachaise, aren't dour sites of mourning and mortality so much as elegiac pleasure grounds. They memorialize the city's famed, infamous and all but forgotten in parklike environments studded with tombs so exquisitely imaginative that they resemble works of art. There's a certain macabre logic, then, to Le 104 (or the Centquatre), an ambitious multidisciplinary arts center that was once a state-run pompes funèbres - a municipal funeral hub from which hearses, coffins and corpses were dispatched...
...divided into two categories: Tristes Tropiques, and everything else. Cherished as a formative influence by many established anthropologists, the slim volume sets down in pearlescent prose all the bittersweet joys of the profession, absent in Lévi-Strauss’ more detached volumes of scholarship. This elegiac tone evolved into outright pessimism as he grew older; in one of his last interviews he flatly states that “the world on which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.” Part of this had to do with the ascendance...
...Behind the uninflected stories of Nine Lives, though, lies an elegiac keening. For as fast as rural people are streaming into India's exploding cities and logging companies are cutting down sacred groves, the traditions that have sustained the devout for generations are being threatened. The maker of sacred sculptures tells us how his son, though he has inherited the ancestral gift, wants to become a computer engineer, preferring a comfortable future to a way of life that has lasted over 700 years. The son of a dreadlocked Tantric sadhu is "an accountant with Tata." A temple dancer sees...
...party (one posed as an MP, the other as an official Labour outlet). @lordmandelson, a fake version of Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, has also suspended activities. The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, who now tweets as @DMiliband, was beaten in the race to join Twitter by an impostor whose elegiac tweet on Michael Jackson's death was widely quoted by credulous media. "So far it's all been quite amusing," says McCarthy. "David Miliband talking about Michael Jackson's death isn't going to cause a foreign policy crisis whereas David Miliband saying, 'It's all the fault of the Jews...