melancholy

The strength of the novel — and the source of its melancholy tone — is in its scope.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

One of the most melancholy cultural histories is that of the short-lived Russian Renaissance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

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

It was her book of melancholy German poems in translation!

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

Pearson's deep brown face and sunburned light hair gave him the appearance of a schoolboy seized by one of youth's profound and insolvable melancholies.

From Waifs and Strays Part 1 by O. Henry

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

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