melancholy

Released in June, the group’s fourth album, “Escrito en Agua,” is a bohemian tour de force — a bewitching combination of freestyle poetry, menacing Krautrock, melancholy shades of jazz and post-rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

“Petal” marks a dramatic shift from Grande’s previous LP, 2024’s “Eternal Sunshine,” a tender and melancholy electro-pop collection that laid out a kind of emotional philosophy of heartbreak.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Her melancholy yet danceable single “Choosin’ Texas” has spent 14 weeks at No. 1.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Vincent is more volatile and moody, Theo more melancholy.

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

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

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

"You 've fallen into the black melancholies these some days back," said Rogers to me.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever

—This her poor book is full of saddest follies, Of tearful smiles and laughing melancholies, With summer roses twined and wintry hollies.

From The Professor at the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes