melancholy

When you listen to those romances, written during her husband’s decline, your heart could break from the melancholy and sustained wandering cries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

The adaptation delves more into their marital melancholy, but I felt I understood them better in Shakespeare’s original, which recognizes the power of suggestion and interpretive restraint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

I felt the warm tug of the past and the melancholy of absence—all of it a little jarring, accustomed as I was to the hermetic and youthful world of college.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

How she listened at first to the sonorous lamentations of its romantic melancholies reechoing through the world and eternity!

From Madame Bovary by Eleanor Marx Aveling

But Ivan was, at this time, little given to melancholies; and a laughing question from Vladimir in the next room, brought him back to realities and his man's work.

From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter

In fact, it was a pretty place; and I felt such "dispositions to melancholies," as Sir Hugh Evans would have it, that I half resented Mr. S.'s suggestion that the cars were waiting.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe