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Example sentences for: melancholy

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His "melancholy" is a well-known Jewish disease.
On each side, the comparatively passive figures of Jacob’s wives, a prayerful Rachel and melancholy Leah, were the last completed sculptures of Michelangelo.
He's steeped in Russian melancholy, but he isn't pickled--those eyes are hard and mean.
The movie is a passable entertainment--call it The Half Monty . It has standard issue (but funny) farcical sight gags and a score of panpipes to provide the requisite undercurrent of Celtic melancholy.
But then IBM came in on Wednesday night with a melancholy forecast for the next six months, which sent stocks tumbling for much of Thursday until they just stopped.