melancholy
Example Sentences
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Eating the chicken should have been a celebration, a great luxury, but we were both melancholy.
From Literature
That elegant dance matches what we see on stage, the kabuki performances melding melancholy and beauty, anguish and catharsis.
From Los Angeles Times
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%.
“I wish I had more success as an actor,” the New York-based actor told The Times with a dash of melancholy in 2015.
From Los Angeles Times
“Rhodes — and Finney — employ the steel guitar inventively, not just to evoke notes of melancholy often found in country music, but to bring an orchestra’s worth of color, texture and shading to the arrangements.”
From Los Angeles Times
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