melancholy

Poetic, melancholy and groundbreaking for its era, many people consider it one of the best video games ever made.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Martin McDonagh’s melancholy irreverence plays well with Oscar voters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Kitaj is the most melancholy of all the likenesses, and the only one that Ashbery did not tuck away but placed against a fireplace in an upstairs sitting room.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

In the lyrics, the singer professes his love for a girl called Celeste over a melancholy piano line, saying: "I hear her voice each time I take a breath".

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

I felt the warm tug of the past and the melancholy of absence—all of it a little jarring, accustomed as I was to the hermetic and youthful world of college.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The pains, regrets and melancholies of the adult characters mingle with the fresher but no less complex experiences of the teenagers getting a taste of love, death and fellowship for the first time.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

Says Faber Birren, 82, the dean of American color researchers: "Color distracts you from yourself and relieves you of inner anxieties, melancholies and fears."

From Time Magazine Archive

She too, majestic matron, had strange, brief yearnings for an existence more romantic than this; shootings across her spirit's firmament of tailed comets; soft, inexplicable melancholies.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

He himself was full of vague latter-day glooms and popular melancholies, and it was a refreshing sensation to behold this young thing then and there, absolutely as happy as if she were in a Paradise.

From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy

Of this last, we can only imagine some too ardent compliment, or perhaps some subjection to one of his dense melancholies.

From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Rupert Hughes