melancholic
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Melancholic signs predict a higher likelihood of success.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2024
Melancholic depression is very familiar today to clinicians who treat hospitalized patients, as Kramer doesn’t.
From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2016
Melancholic makes it seem artistic and it isn't really.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2010
In each case, the choreography eventually won; you could feel it happen with the high-kicking entry of four Melancholic female soloists in “Temperaments” and with Apollo’s pas de deux with Terpsichore.
From New York Times • May 10, 2010
Melancholic states have occasionally been attributed to the slowness of the pulse, but the slow pulse seems to be a symptom connected with the mental condition rather than a causative factor.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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