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Example sentences for: melancholia

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Add to this an account of his recurrent attacks of melancholia, and the patient is clearly revealed.
deals with Boswell's episodes of melancholia, a trait he shared with Johnson, and his essays on it in The Hypochondriack .
Also, the exposition of medical ideas about melancholia relies chiefly on the contribution of William Battie; the two Scotsmen, William Cullen and Robert Whytt, deserve equal billing for their contributions toward mid-18th century ideas on melancholia.
Having risked appearing foolish in the cause of his art; having tackled his parts with demented, hyperbolic integrity, letting the madness of his roles infuse him and carry him into the ether; having snagged an Oscar for his besotted, bebop melancholia in Leaving Las Vegas ; Nicolas Cage has now set out to prove that he can be as much of an overmuscled jackass as Sylvester Stallone.
On the other hand, millennial melancholia has a way of being wrong.