Word: elegiacally
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...bugs through a microscope, he mocked superpower military swagger, singing "Come on, come on, Holy Roman Empire/ C'mon, if you think you can take us all." The ensuing laughter was more nervous than knowing. There was also a bit of a slump at the end of the elegiac "How to Disappear Completely," when the audience stood in near silence for a couple of minutes before realizing that the set was over. Eventually, though, the crowd came around to what had just happened and brought the band back for two rousing encores, including a foot-stomping version of "Everything...
Charlotte Smith published a volume of poems entitled “Elegiac Sonnets” in the year 1784. While Smith did not get a movie deal with DreamWorks, she does share one characteristic with our own Kaavya Viswanathan ’08. Both are said to have “borrowed” from other writers. Back in the 18th-century this may have turned heads, but it was largely acceptable (although Smith herself was criticized). In our own day, however, Viswanathan has been pilloried for peppering her novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild...
...devotees. Charles Bukowski, L.A.'s signature outlaw author, used to channel the book's hero, shouting "I am Bandini, Arturo Bandini!" Screenwriter Robert Towne fell in love with the book when researching his script for Chinatown, also set in the '30s. Now, a generation later, he has made an elegiac movie of Ask the Dust...
...great stadium rock, although it feels more Oasis than Libertines. Standout track “A’rebours” recalls the shimmery stop-and-go pop of the Zombies. “Albion,” is the album’s high point, an elegiac tribute to working-class Britain. But these can’t save “Down In Albion” from its share of duds. “Back From The Dead” is so boring that it feels as though it never lived in the first place. Kate Moss?...
Those who have missed Ledger's work to date are in luck because they can start with his latest, Brokeback Mountain, an elegiac western about two gorgeous, lonely young people who find in each other a passion and a long-sought sense of belonging but who cannot be together. Oh, and they're both guys...