melancholy
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Her melancholy yet danceable single “Choosin’ Texas” has spent 14 weeks at No. 1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Right now in Los Angeles it’s Wes Week, with multiple tributes to the career of filmmaker Wes Anderson, known for his fastidious visual style, melancholy longing and nerd-chic aesthetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
"Is friendship all just for show?" they sing over a melancholy guitar line.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
It is the novel’s desolate mood, finally, and Ms. McPherson’s evocation of a melancholy landscape that anchor both her plot and her heroine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
But she lacked Kainene’s melancholy mystique, which exhilarated and confused him.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
"I'm a good-tempered man," he continued, in sullen apology; "but it gives me the wilds and the melancholies, does that name."
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
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
I tell you what it is, Bartram," muttered Master Arthur, "I suppose I'm too young too, for I've had quite enough of the melancholies for one night.
From Frances Kane's Fortune by L. T. Meade
Vocabulary lists containing melancholy
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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