melancholy

How To Use melancholy In A Sentence

• His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
• And therefore (quod iterum moneo, licet nauseam paret lectori, malo decem potius verba, decies repetita licet abundare, quam unum desiderari) I would advise him that is actually melancholy not to read this tract of Symptoms, lest he disquiet or make himself for a time worse, and more melancholy than he was before. Anatomy of Melancholy
• In its third section, the piece lands into a melancholy return with a re-established tonic and some layered guitar/autoharp picking.
• The engraving shows that Geometry / Melancholy has not succeeded in fashioning a regular dodecahedron.
• Humour and melancholy, sincerity and irony are as balanced as a health freak's diet.
• I'm sure Dido will be so good for you -- all that vivacity -- so different from poor Grace who was prone to melancholy. ULTIMATE PRIZES
• A significant look was exchanged between the devotees, but no words; the friar departed, and the nun, still silent, conducted her through many solitary passages, where not even a distant foot-fall echoed, and whose walls were roughly painted with subjects indicatory of the severe superstitions of the place, tending to inspire melancholy awe. The Italian
• It wants you to feel the cold tug of melancholy. Times, Sunday Times
• On the contrary, there is a vast shadow of melancholy, a painful sadness, doubt and cross-purpose, boldness at one moment and timidity at the next, a longing for solitude. Half a Rogue
• They're equally comfortable with energetic rock as they are with slow, moody and melancholy tunes.