melancholia

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But he added, acidly: “there was little about melancholia that he didn’t know; there was little else that he did.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

And people looking for a dose of introspective melancholia at the end of the festival will have to choose between The National on the Other Stage, and James Blake, who plays in the Woodsies tent.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2024

“McBride mixes American history with speculative fiction to dissect melancholia and political anxiety for young people who are living through uncertain times — in the future and today,” wrote the judges.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2024

While his absence has obvious resonance, if you were expecting some kind of Hamlet-style anguish or even a hint of misty melancholia about the now-absent symbolic father, forget it.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Vincent knows there are members of the family who suffer from melancholia, from mood swings, extreme behavior, eccentricities.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman