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Example sentences for: melancholy

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The tensions give it a comic tingle, but that comedy is rooted in melancholy and alienation.
One wouldn't want to characterize the diminutive, balding rock star as being (in Cole Porter's marvelous phrase) down in the depths on the 90 th floor, but a faint tinge of melancholy hangs in the air.
Happiness melted into melancholy, sadness into ennui.
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.
Nothing but paying ever ploughs such lines in a man's face, ever set his lips as such a melancholy angle."