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The viola tends to be plaintively melancholic, or else to squawk, ugly-duckling style, like a bassoon or an English horn.
But apart from Sheedy's melancholic portrayal of the doped-up photographer, the film is said to be "full of itself and its artistic pretension" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ) and saddled with clichéd depictions of bohemianism.
The '70s megastar's first album of new songs in nine years is deemed melancholic and sluggish, "like it has been injected with a tranquilizer" (David Browne, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics lament that his guitar playing includes none of his signature virtuoso licks.
But there is, nonetheless, something melancholic about it, and this is where the lament about companies actually making products has real resonance.