melancholia

How To Use melancholia In A Sentence

• There was a pause while he swam the vast and slate-blue lakes of his inner melancholia to bring to me his request. THE CALLIGRAPHER
• Multa cura et tristitia faciunt accedere melancholiam Anatomy of Melancholy
• Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie. Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
• He felt his stale melancholia leave him, his head become clearer, his nerves tauten. Autumn
• There was a pause while he swam the vast and slate-blue lakes of his inner melancholia to bring to me his request. THE CALLIGRAPHER
• That was probably why he was often haunted by spells of melancholia and dark thoughts and often sought refuge in books.
• The new movie "Melancholia" is getting attention not just because it features Kirsten Dunst's comeback, Alexander Skarsgård's jawline and the end of the planet. Lighting Up Our Mental Ills
• Fifth, there is a streak of melancholia in the English imagination, which can easily slide into a condition of fatalism.
• Amid the torrent of music coming out of the Balkans in the past year or two, this session, recorded in the historic town of Mostar, stands out by virtue of its simplicity and its aura of rapt melancholia.
• Qui de die jejunant, et nocte vigilant, facile cadunt in melancholiam; et qui naturae modum excedunt, c. Anatomy of Melancholy