melancholy

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"My life is a broken roller coaster, but maybe I'm the only one to blame," they sing on the melancholy Merry Go Round.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

This version is easily the equal of the original: fizzing with humor, and infused with a tenderness and melancholy sympathy for all its characters, mostly members of a family from the so-called 1%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Her best performance likely came in Jean-Luc Godard’s acclaimed 1963 melancholy adaptation “Contempt,” as a wife who falls out of love with her husband.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

The book is about the dangers of monstrous appetites but also about the melancholy of unrealized desires.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Smiling with melancholy, said he, “‘Rara avis in Terris, nigroque simillima Cycno.’”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson