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.
The crowds which have been passing to and fro during the whole day, are rapidly dwindling away; and the noise of shouting and quarrelling which issues from the public – houses, is almost the only sound that breaks the melancholy stillness of the night. Sketches by Boz
Yet there's something sad about the collapse of what inspired so many as an ideal: something melancholy in its decay. Times, Sunday Times
I feel that musically, melancholy tones are the most comforting.
In those northern countries, the people are therefore generally dull, heavy, and many witches, which (as I have before quoted) Saxo Grammaticus, Olaus, Baptista Porta ascribe to melancholy. Anatomy of Melancholy
Softened by the events of the past week, affected by the melancholy beauty of the autumn day, Soames came nearer than he had ever been to realisation of that truth — passing the understanding of a Forsyte pure — that the body of Beauty has a spiritual essence, uncapturable save by a devotion which thinks not of self. To Let
In a subsequent passage, "I am as melancholy as a gibb'd cat" -- we are told that _cat_ is not the domestic animal of that name, but a contraction of _catin_, a woman of the town. Famous Reviews
According to humoral theory, the body comprised of the four humours blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy; and pathological conditions are the result of humoral abnormalities.
A pize on it! send it off to those who have their legs swathed with a hay-wisp, their heads thatched with a felt bonnet, their jerkin as thin as a cobweb, and their pouch without ever a cross to keep the fiend Melancholy from dancing in it. Kenilworth
Whom those resemble that are morose, unsociable, and unconversable, and affect a melancholy retirement; they are like these solitary creatures that take delight in desolations. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge.
I have no sympathy whatever with the idea that a humourist ought to be a lugubrious person with a face stamped with melancholy. My Discovery of England
Friday, I enjoyed with an almost melancholy nostalgia because the skies were a deep blue with not a cloud or chemtrail in sight.
Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
From a dull murmur it swelled into a deep roar, and then sank back into a melancholy throbbing murmur once again. Times, Sunday Times
For her father's comfort, noting the sad wistful eyes that watched her coming in and going out, she had resigned herself to spend long melancholy hours within doors, reading aloud till Sir John fell asleep, playing backgammon -- a game she detested worse even than shove-halfpenny, which latter primitive game they played sometimes on the shovel-board in the hall. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
The vision of her mourning robes and melancholy beauty so deeply impressed Capitola that, almost for the first time in her life, she hesitated from a feeling of diffidence, and said gently: The Hidden Hand
Solitariness cause of melancholy; coact, voluntary, how good; sign of melancholy Anatomy of Melancholy
She walked across to the policeman, one shoulder hitched slightly above the other, her hair sticking out straight behind and worn in slick bandeaus on either side of her face, her hat trailing in a melancholy way on her head. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
Come to an end only lonely melancholy is a taste of life.
Latin America, he wrote, was disfavored by geography and climate and weighted down by its history, permeated by a ‘heavy, melancholy force.’
A slide guitar is used on some of the tracks, while the songs maintain a definite tone of melancholy and sadness.
Armed with trumpets and congas, they keep things up-tempo, but this is an exception to the rule, and melancholy prevails.
All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.
A note of melancholy swelled to a crescendo, then, dissipated into the breeze with a diminuendo.
The deathy stillness of a town, and the barred windows, and shut shops, and empty streets, and great long lines of big brick buildins, look melancholy. The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
Idleness," says Burton, in that delightful old book "The Anatomy of Melancholy," "is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief mother of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the devil's cushion, his pillow and chief reposal ... How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success
While her thoughts were occupied with these melancholy reflections, a shadowy figure seemed to detach itself from the copsewood on her right hand. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
He raised one hand in salutation, welcoming one and all in a melancholy voice.
But in spite of his melancholy bearing and despondent expression, there were few who could say that they had ever seen a man of more distinguished presence.
An urgent and then melancholy opening was unsettled by dark bass trills and a menacing fugal theme, only to be undone by the second movement's disarming simplicity. Pianist Till Fellner ends Beethoven sonata cycle with restrained refinement
Two or three cups of the stalks, with leaves put into a cup of wine, especially claret, are known to quicken the spirits, refresh and cheer the heart, and drive away melancholy.
From a dull murmur it swelled into a deep roar, and then sank back into a melancholy throbbing murmur once again. Times, Sunday Times
After a quiet intro where the interweaving trombone and sax establish the melancholy theme, the full band of drums, piano, congas, bass clarinet, trombone, and tenor sax aggressively joins in.
The pale short-lived summer is central to the Swedish sensibility, and few have expressed its gentle melancholy with greater eloquence.
Of course, the name game is just one aspect of the melancholy fact expressed by the cliche ‘fame is fleeting.’
Now she couldn't look back and remember those times without forcing back tears, or battling a melancholy wave of sadness.
But in the midst of this relentless repression, there were rare, precious gems of resistance gleaming out from the melancholy.
When melancholy gets out at the superficies of the skin, or settles breaking out in scabs, leprosy, morphew, or is purged by stools, or by the urine, or that the spleen is enlarged, and those varices appear, the disease is dissolved. Anatomy of Melancholy
It's a haunting, slightly melancholy piece that's arguably the best track on here.
Nor do I hastily cork the melancholy bottle so we can all smile again. Christianity Today
The filming is artily melancholy. Times, Sunday Times
And all in a melancholy search for cash to mend the roof. Times, Sunday Times
Its impact on Reilly, who was at Wilson's bedside at the very end, ran much deeper, and while this work is explicitly signalled as a 'paean' - literally a song of joy or exultation - it is one etched in melancholy notes. Drowned In Sound // Feed
There is a brooding melancholy in his black and white photography.
It sounded like the sort of soaring, gorgeous, melancholy stuff Radiohead used to write before they got too arty-farty to bother with tunes.
With each year that passes, the celebration would become more melancholy - the holiday more of a national blush of shame. Times, Sunday Times
He played with the melancholy which the phrase diffused, he felt it stealing over him, but like a caress which only deepened and sweetened his sense of his own happiness. Swann's Way
The epilogue catches perfectly the endless withdrawing melancholy of summer evenings in the high north, when pleasure goes on so long it turns into an inexpressible sadness.
Welcome to November, a month that people take a little bit too seriously, a month of melancholy and corduroy, and the only time of year you'll hear New Yorkers utter the word "succotash" with a straight face on the crosstown bus …. Eight Day Week
And it also underlines one of the truly melancholy trends of our times. Times, Sunday Times
He became a curious mixture of internal melancholy and external effervescence.
Like all diaries, it reflects the mood of the diarist and hence is scrappy, which in turns becomes waspish, gentle, melancholy, flirtatious and always directed by the seasons, scents, gardens and clothes.
It was a quiet, unflashy life that went with his shy, melancholy, unconfident character. Times, Sunday Times
It's all complemented with the serious pathos of Hattori's sickly and melancholy wife and naturally the full-tilt violence with numberless ruffians and no-account villains feeling Zatoichi's cold steel.
And then this evening, throwing off her melancholy, she had barged him without warning and jinked away with a cheeky backward glance, rolling a couple of the cubs onto their backs as she ran.
Olbinett prepared the evening meal with his accustomed punctuality, and after this was dispatched, the travelers disposed themselves for the night in the wagon and in the tent, and were soon sleeping soundly, notwithstanding the melancholy howling of the "dingoes," the jackals of Australia. In Search of the Castaways
Whenever I pass the old drive-in cinema south of the Heavitree Gap, I get a melancholy feeling.
Many of them explain in melancholy tones that they don't see how they can keep their farms and their lifestyle going much longer.
Slowly, other sounds emerge to fill the space around his voice: a slow and rhythmic drumming, the trilling of a wooden flute, melancholy chords of the stringed saz and the fluttering of an oboe-like instrument called a mey.
I see most things in monochrome, and I know why dogs look melancholy most of the time.
I'm sitting here almost in tears, drowning in a sad mixture of melancholy, confusion, hopelessness, and self-pity.
So if you've got an excess of black bile, you're melancholy; if there's a lot of blood running through you, you're sanguine.
His was a gloomy and melancholy disposition and he never found relief outside his work.
He interestingly elicits the languor and melancholy of Fowler, fusing this ennui with the action as Fowler journeys up-country to report on the vicious shooting war.
Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
But Anna sang on, her voice rising like a shaft of pure melancholy in the cold air, now evoking Schubert's poignant hurdy-gurdy man. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The exaltation of liquor, however, appeared only to intensify his characteristics: his face became more lugubrious and melancholy; his manner more ceremonious and dignified; and, erect and stiff in his saddle from the waist upwards, but leaning from side to side with the motion of his horse, like the tall mast of some laboring sloop, he "loped" away towards the House of the Lost Mission. Maruja
Most of them are pervaded by a brooding spirit of melancholy of the 'moping' rather than the 'musical' sort, and consequently rather ineffective as an artistic motive. Proserpine and Midas
A perfect Christmas morning record with its angelic singing and gentle melancholy hymns.
The one monkey I liked, and that at a distance, was the wa-wa, whose voice was very sweet and melodious, like the soft bubbling of water; but it was a very melancholy animal, and never seemed to possess the fun and trickishness of the more common sorts of ape. Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak
As grim a life as you'll ever witness is preserved in coal dust in a melancholy flick book.
The Slave Dancer is written through Jessie's eyes, and projects a depressing, melancholy mood.
It evokes a melancholy nostalgia that is hard to capture. The Sun
But there is also a kind of melancholy that sweeps over me when I read the biographies of persons who did not finish the race. Christianity Today
The shadowy foliage and its reflection of lingering sunlight from the shiny leaves capture something sweetly melancholy at this dark time of year. Times, Sunday Times
What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy?
Some use it as a means to depict their disorientation and melancholy.
In this hypochondriacal or flatuous melancholy, the symptoms are so ambiguous, saith [2633] Crato in a counsel of his for a noblewoman, that the most exquisite physicians cannot determine of the part affected. Anatomy of Melancholy
As syrup of borage (there is a famous syrup of borage highly commended by Laurentius to this purpose in his tract of melancholy), de pomis of king Sabor, now obsolete, of thyme and epithyme, hops, scolopendria, fumitory, maidenhair, bizantine, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
Seven or eight years after writing "Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare growing conscious of these changes in his own temperament embodied them in another character, the melancholy "Jaques" in "As You Like It. The Man Shakespeare
He would not creep about the country with moaning voice and melancholy eyes, with draggled dress and outward signs of wretchedness.
With the face resting against his fist, the apparition assumes the pose of melancholy - an affirmation of how the artistic temperament is born from overcoming tribulation and suffering.
When creating him I saw him as being a slightly melancholy but essentially decent young man, and I imagined his destiny would involve being one of the people to finally bring peace between humanity and the elementals.
From the whole, soft, liquescent fluid scene, the impression which I derived was melancholy. Through Russia
The altoist wrote all of the compositions except for two: one is Mingus's melancholy "Self Portrait in Three Colors," the other a cover of, yes, "All Neon Like," by Bjork, an ongoing predilection for both Osby and Moran. Hidden Talents
Midway through the book, I discover a page written entirely in French, from a 1614 medical textbook, describing the four humours (blood, choler, melancholy and phlegm) and what each tasted like; what each was good for.
A few minutes after, looking up towards the gallery, she perceived, in one of the furthest rows, young Melmond; his eye fixt upon their pew, but withdrawn the instant he was observed and his air the most melancholy and dejected. Camilla
Yet even without these extramusical circumstances, it seems reasonable that Young's sound would have grown darker and deeper as he got older (as did Sinatra's), and to many of us Young in his 40s is even more melancholy and moving than his earlier self. Forever Young—A Centennial Tribute
There is a melancholy in the modern world which looks with nostalgia to the days when magic ruled the world, and sunrise was a time of aubade, dusk a time for the canticles of evensong, when the elfin ships can be glimpsed by those with second sight against the fiery clouds, setting sail away from the mortal shores for worlds beyond the sunset, beyond the seas we know. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
It sounded like the sort of soaring, gorgeous, melancholy stuff Radiohead used to write before they got too arty-farty to bother with tunes.
Olympus — dazzlingly melancholy, and ‘humano major’ among the meannesses and trumperies of earth. Wylder's Hand
Like the catalogue of pastoral images that Keats includes in his famous ode, a city building awash in rain has become a perfect place for anyone beset by a melancholy fit to glut her sorrow.
On the emotional front melancholy, depression, irritability & inappropriate anger present themselves with the physical signs of abdominal distension and pain, gas, borborygmus, diarrhea.
A famous and witty harlequin of France was overcome with hypochondriasm, and consulted a physician, who, after inquiring about his malady, told his miserable patient, that he knew of no other medicine for him than to take frequent doses of Carlin -- "I am Carlin himself," exclaimed the melancholy man, in despair. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
Thus came the parlour songs, which at first were a mixture of folky adaptations and pastiches of operatic arias; verses of gentle melancholy were set to simple melodies accompanied by an Alberti bass or arpeggios.
Having thus briefly anatomised the body and soul of man, as a preparative to the rest; I may now freely proceed to treat of my intended object, to most men's capacity; and after many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is, show his name and differences. Anatomy of Melancholy
The melancholy soughing of a cane-flute rose on the night breeze.
Thomas begins with recent neo-Kantian studies of the aesthetics of melancholy, and applies these ideas to a number of case studies, chiefly the bucolics of Virgil, the eclogues of Miklós Radnóti, and the utopian lyrics and music of Bob Dylan.
Crystal clear harmonies tinged with melancholy. The Sun
There is a sort of pervasive melancholy, but also an unfocused hope for the future.
There is a kind of onyx called a chalcedony, which hath the same qualities, [4151] avails much against fantastic illusions which proceed from melancholy, preserves the vigour and good estate of the whole body. Anatomy of Melancholy
The easy, almost effortless path to total dictatorial power makes melancholy reading. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Dark blue, on the other hand, has a sedative effect, and can make some people feel melancholy and dejected.
Her haggard face and melancholy expression elicited a murmur of shock from the assemblage of reporters as she moved to the podium and began to speak.
The rest of the album then unfolds in suitably impressive fashion, taking in everything from innocent desires, to melancholy tales of loss and regret, without ever bringing the listener down with it.
The room was dimly lit, with only a reading lamp casting its melancholy glow over the elegantly decorated room.
Some are of opinion that all raw herbs and salads breed melancholy blood, except bugloss and lettuce. Anatomy of Melancholy
The melancholy of the whole story, the pity of it, the one long sigh which Schlegel heard in it, is conveyed with an almost magic suddenness in this single touch; and yet one touch more, and that of priceless importance, the suggestion of the whole world of misery and disorder that may lie hidden as an awful possibility in the tempers and vanities of even two poor old heads of houses. Introduction
Not a great bustle at this hour on a soft, moist, melancholy November day, but always some evidence of human activity, a boy jog-trotting home with a bag on his shoulder and a dog at his heels, a carter making for the town with a load of coppice-wood, an old man leaning on his staff, two sturdy housewives of the Foregate bustling back from the town with their purchases, one of Hugh's officers riding back towards the bridge at a leisurely walk. The Devil's Novice
Is he a melancholy man? Times, Sunday Times
The harbour was crowded with fishing vessels no longer employed… the quay was covered in long grass and a melancholy assemblage of beggars importuned us for relief wherever we walked.
These were sweet, melodic songs tinged with a wistful melancholy that your nan could whistle while doing the ironing. The Sun
Once a term naturalized in English, alamort is now considered French and is rarely, if ever, used in Dryden's sense of ` melancholy. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
Lincoln had, by this time, outgrown the cruder romantic impulses of hisyouth, when, like Bismarck, he read Byron and suffered from “hypochondriasm,” a form of ostentatious melancholy. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
He fixed me with those luminous, empty eyes and his melancholy smile.
With each year that passes, the celebration would become more melancholy - the holiday more of a national blush of shame. Times, Sunday Times
The toilet too, with its mirror, turbaned, after the manner of the beginning of the century, with a coiffure of murrey-coloured silk, and its hundred strange-shaped boxes, providing for arrangements which had been obsolete for more than fifty years, had an antique, and in so far a melancholy, aspect. The Tapestried Chamber
It is performed by a simplified gamelan orchestra blending soft-sounding percussion instruments with the melancholy sounds of a flute.
The spectator feels the forlorn atmosphere; senses the image 's haunting melancholy. Times, Sunday Times
His expression narrowed and didn't return to its normal melancholy state until she disappeared behind the doorway.
At any rate, I hope that all people, especially those who are in a melancholy frame of mind in this global village, will get a chance to dine on all kinds of delicacies of the season during this lonely autumn.
Once you've finished this wonderful book you're haunted by the melancholy tone of this solitary, meditative figure.
However, if this is done before July, many beautiful wild flowers, such as melancholy thistle, wood cranesbill and bistort, which are special to limestone uplands of the north, are mown down before they can seed.
He ranges from melancholy thoughts on life to romantic ballads to blues to rocking tunes.
But O how melancholy a forlorn, beautiless world will this be at this day! Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
The easy, almost effortless path to total dictatorial power makes melancholy reading. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Feeling melancholy, he fashioned the cut reeds into the musical instrument that bears his name - the pan-pipe.
The movement contrasts pale, exquisite images of melancholy with extrovert, earthy humour and frequently makes comically literal references to hunting or farming scenes in the text.
The sough of the tidal surf breaking upon the beach, the occasional cry of a soaring sea-bird, or the more continuous and melancholy note of the chuck-will's-widow, do not attract their attention. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea
Cupping-glasses, cauteries how and when used to melancholy Anatomy of Melancholy
Polyhymnia, which is celebrated above the rest for an expression of melancholy pensiveness not usually found among the ancients. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
The mood, carried by the winds and strings, is generally plaintive, even melancholy.
Well, let me tell ya, there isn't anything quite like hearing that robot talk in its flat uninflected voice to wake me from my melancholy disposition.
It wants you to feel the cold tug of melancholy. Times, Sunday Times
She made it quite clear that she had no interest in me, and I would spend long periods of time pining over her - and rather enjoying the unrequited sense of melancholy this provided.
Petey, everything you write has a certain tinge of melancholy. Matthew Yglesias » What’s My Name, Fool?
If you did nothing but pursue the main battle missions in Fallout 3 , the game would be much less melancholy, because all you'd encounter would be sardonic rejoinders, brutal attacks and corpses to ransack for bad-ass weapons, precisely like every other shoot'em-up in history. Bleak Fallout 3 Dazzles With Great Depression
His work was a flaming call to arms; hers is resigned, melancholy, even funereal.
To this opinion of Galen, almost all the Greeks and Arabians subscribe, the Latins new and old, internae, tenebrae offuscant animum, ut externae nocent pueris, as children are affrighted in the dark, so are melancholy men at all times, [2665] as having the inward cause with them, and still carrying it about. Anatomy of Melancholy
I blurted out to my kind friend that I had absolutely no interest in that cantankerous, melancholy old woman!
I am exceedingly melancholy of complexion, subject to consumptions and chilliness of my vital spirits, a slavish and sickly life being allotted to me in his city.
Fall melancholy turns into the winter blahs shortly after Thanksgiving for this Chicago girl.
The church bell clashed its melancholy note.
When she sees or hears of injustice, the normally happy girl becomes so melancholy and dejected that it worries others.
It made me feel melancholy and reflective. Times, Sunday Times
This, though a plentiful, and by no means unwholesome fare for growing boys, was not what he had been accustomed to, and feeling far too heavy and unwell after it to venture upon an encounter with the Doctor, he wandered slow and melancholy round the bare gravelled playground during the half-hour after dinner devoted to the inevitable "chevy," until the Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
Room IV has a corner of fine melancholy rose- and blue-period Picassos, as well as a long wall of 11 Matisses in all the wrong colors and his knobbly bronze "Serf. Souvenirs From Paris
A muted, tinkling presence throughout, the piano is accompanied by the voices of melancholy oboe and sax.
He was a strange, tall, dark, osseous man who, owing to the brooding, melancholy character of his own disposition, had a checkered and a somewhat sad career behind him. The Titan
This encapsulates what young artists encountered in the 1990s, leaving me with terrific melancholy.
But these are checked by dispiriting reflections on my melancholy temper and imbecility of mind.
Pittard can be harrowingly wise about the melancholy process of growing up, of moving from the horny days of high school to the burden of protecting our own children. A missing girl's long shadow
Borghese, as it has been called, from the form of a clavecin adopted by the architect -- a monument of splendor, which was, less than two years later, to serve as the scene of a situation more melancholy than that of the Palais Castagna. The French Immortals Series — Complete
Sir Asinus, no longer intending for Europe, but satisfied with Virginia; no _longer_ woful, but in passable good spirits; no longer melancholy, but surveying those around him with affectionate regard. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764
While in this temper, as he was taking a solitary walk in the evening, and, to divert his melancholy, was flinging the stones that lay in his path against each other, he happened to break a tolerably large one, and out of it jumped a toad. Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian
Aubanus and Sabellicus commend Portugal beef to be the most savoury, best and easiest of digestion; we commend ours: but all is rejected, and unfit for such as lead a resty life, any ways inclined to melancholy, or dry of complexion: Tales (Galen thinks) de facile melancholicis aegritudinibus capiuntur. Anatomy of Melancholy
Rhapsodic, ironic, elegiac and disillusioned, the urban sketch, for all its sparkle, tended toward melancholy.
Some physicians here talk very melancholy, and think it foreruns the plague, which is actually at Hamburg. The Journal to Stella
Soft and dreamy, a perfect pre-echo of the song's exquisitely swooning melancholy, the guitar lead-in to The Guardian World News
When Darwin set sail on the Beagle in 1831, he was taken along primarily as a companion for the captain, Robert Fitzroy, who feared growing lonely and melancholy.
D'Urfey, however, _Pills to Purge Melancholy_ (1719), vi, p. 351, has 'a cogue of good ale '.p. 227 _Groom Porter's. The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
As grim a life as you'll ever witness is preserved in coal dust in a melancholy flick book.
What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy?
It goes without saying that he loved “his great namesake,” as he calls him, “Robert Burton, of melancholy and merry, of facete and juvenile memory.” The Life of Sir Richard Burton
English prosody is regular and veiled, its natural beauties all melancholy; the clouds have shaped its hues, and the sound of waves its modulations. Selections from _Corinne_
For while no spectator can deny their claims to a most solemn and superstitious consideration, no more than my firmest resolutions can decline to behold the spectre-tortoise when emerging from its shadowy recess; yet even the tortoise, dark and melancholy as it is upon the back, still possesses a bright side; its calipee or breast-plate being sometimes of a faint yellowish or golden tinge. The Piazza Tales
Cargill returned to his native country alone, indulging upon the road in a melancholy abstraction of mind, which he had suffered to grow upon him since the mental shock which he had sustained, and which in time became the most characteristical feature of his demeanour. Saint Ronan's Well
Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn
It helped anaesthetise your sprained ankle, but made you more than a little melancholy, and you lay awake until long into the night thinking about Kasha. A Test Of Faith: Julian Gilmour: Reader Scifi Fiction | SciFi UK Review
Music can impart in us a feeling of melancholy and sorrow, rapture and euphoria.
The men we met walked past slow, unsmiling, with downcast eyes, as if the melancholy of an over-burdened earth had weighted their feet, bowed their shoulders, borne down their glances.
The fado is a melancholy type of song from Portugal.
Hume certainly would not have accepted the "rice theory" in explanation of the social state of the Hindoos; and, it may be safely assumed, that he would not have had recourse to the circumambience of the "melancholy main" to account for the troublous history of Ireland. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
It's a flagrant bit of pathos, but without all that emoting and melancholy sprinkled throughout the story, the movie would regrettably fall apart and wind up as just another ruthless vampire B-movie. Rabid Rewind: Daybreakers
Cassian himself dwells on the horrible liability of the monks to the principal vices which infest human nature — gluttony, uncleanness, avarice, anger, vainglory, pride — above all, that despairing and unaccountable melancholy which they call acedia, and describe as “the demon that walketh in the noonday.” Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
You half expect a jazz saxophone to bleat a solo to complete the air of film noir melancholy. Times, Sunday Times
I really enjoyed it, but it put me in a melancholy mood for the rest of the evening: quite a challenging film (there was a lot of nervous laughter in the audience).
The slightly onedimensional, cheap feeling of heliotropin is offset by a melancholy, powdery iris note. The Times Literary Supplement
The adjacent low-lying ground, for half a mile in breadth, is a stagnant river, with melancholy trees for islands in it, and a surface punctured all over, all day long, with falling rain.
He leads a melancholy life, constantly quoting Proust either directly or indirectly.
And she's just encountered the old blood groupings, the four humours: sanguine, choler, phlegm, melancholy.
And it also underlines one of the truly melancholy trends of our times. Times, Sunday Times
The duo take a distinctly independent approach to hip-hop, creating cinematic but melancholy beats around some telling raps from Reindeer.
While it seems like a big, fat, pegless loveletter to Adam Moss 'New York (it's sexy, it's smart, it's local, it's broadly appealing), the piece ends on a melancholy note: Kurtz: New York Good, Adam Moss Edits It
The sound of a steam whistle fell upon a wilderness. At the parting moment immeasurable melancholy and loneliness welled up in my mind.
His work was a flaming call to arms; hers is resigned, melancholy, even funereal.
More saliently, however, this positioning of himself in such a way was, in part, because of a deep melancholy over all those who were gone from his life and regret for all the experiences that they had given him -- experiences that had accumulated and embedded carvings onto the walls of his brain until there were reliefs of inexpugnable, defunct memories, aggravating the past so that it was alive in him still. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
[the rest in a melancholy tone] devolute and forget to reboot the gas boiler don't forget to listen to the phone in BBC northern god I thought The Unutterable
The best writers in this kind were Middleton and Dekker -- and the best play to read as a sample of it _Eastward Ho! _ in which Marston put off his affectation of sardonical melancholy and joined with Jonson and Dekker to produce what is the masterpiece of the non-Shakespearean comedy of the time. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
After a fortnight of storytelling in the country, the brigade of friends returns to Florence disburdened of their melancholy.

How To Use Melancholy In A Sentence

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