elegize
- v compose an elegy
- Spielberg has chosen to elegize the story by romanticizing it, swathing the characters in Norman Rockwell attitudes, a meddlesome symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that .
- Each scene, whether it means to elegize or horrify, is unrelenting, unmodulated, rabid with its own righteousness.
- She must simultaneously experience and elegize the high spirits of her teens, and she accomplishes the feat with grace, wit and feeling.