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Example sentences for: melancholy

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British press coverage of the crisis was generally pessimistic, with the Times ' editorial Friday saying that Northern Ireland finds itself once again "at a melancholy crossroads under a lowering sky" and that its future is now "a space colonised by fear."
And I became melancholy as I puzzled over Michelangelo's reasons for what I supposed was an insult to the deliverer of the Hebrews and the Law Giver of the Western World.
It’s a melancholy sight that recalls Hungary’s claim on that part of the land north of the river, lost in the punitive 1920 Treaty of Trianon.
There's an edginess, a tough guy's melancholy, to Davis' sound.
He died here in 1936: Melancholy gardens of dark laurel and cypresses lead up to a hilltop mausoleum of the writer’s sarcophagus flanked by those of his disciples.