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melancholia

[mel-uhn-koh-lee-uh, -kohl-yuh] / ˌmɛl ənˈkoʊ li ə, -ˈkoʊl yə /


NOUN
seasonal affective disorder
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Since PBF, Gurewitch has shifted his focus to film and TV, and he published a Kickstarter book called Notes on a Case of Melancholia, Or: A Little Death that pays homage to Edward Gorey.

From The Verge • Feb. 14, 2020

But Game of Thrones didn’t get its reputation for narrative cruelty for no reason, and if you were expecting a happy ending, you probably should have watched Melancholia.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2019

Melancholia is more like that same path, cleared of underbrush, with only a stone or two to be aware of, that you navigate in the dusk to get home again.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2018

The eerily Boschian epilogue of "The House That Jack Built" plays, in some ways, like a reversal of the slo-mo apocalypse that kicked off his uncharacteristically lovely and mature 2011 drama, "Melancholia."

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2018

It helpeth the blacke and yellow Jaundisse, and the evill, which is accompanied with strange feare and excessive sadnesse without any evident occasion, or necessary cause, called Melancholia Hypochondriaca.

From Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain by Rutherford, James




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