Aerial shots of suburban homes and snow-tired pickups paid for with postwar Spam elegize what's soon to be lost. |
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A European-American habit of history is to destroy things and then to elegize them, like the memorial to the last passenger pigeon. |
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But is it possible to elegize the Gutenberg Age even as we blast into the Gutenberg Galaxy? |
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A few pamphlets elegize our lost ability to get lost, thanks to the advent of gps. |
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Having seemingly eliminated the elemental from our own lives, we now elegize it via ground-floor history. |
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Years afterward he would elegize the obsolescence of the aircraft. |
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It manages to elegize Charles I and to register Marvell's doubts about Cromwell's scorched-earth tactics in Wexford and Drogheda. |
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The Internet itself offers proof of the enormous human desire to produce text — to pontificate, edit, elegize, redact, hash out, bloviate, opine and instruct. |
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Attempting to elegize these time-honored country occupations, Stubbs has taken a classical distance from the players, coming up with candy-box scenes whose figures seem frozen. |
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Does his long masterpiece elegize his best friend, Arthur Henry Hallam? |
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These crumbling traces, the evidence of time's attrition, have always made Guanajuato seem to me a place that Lord Byron or Rainer Maria Rilke might have chosen to elegize. |
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