Words similar to melancholy

Example sentences for: melancholy

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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.
We all know people who are essentially hotblooded, or melancholy (which literally means "black bile"), or phlegmatic, or who view the world with a jaundiced eye.
His musings on the destructive beauty of pop culture, the way it merchandizes melancholy to vulnerable young people, at times achieve something like philosophical depth.
The Communist leaders he knew even spoke grandly of a "war against melancholy."
Actually, you won't find much of this kind of machine-gun improvisation in Not-Knowing , at least once past the bracing title essay, the most fully fleshed apologia Barthelme achieved, which barrels from Husserl to "Melancholy Baby" to the past-due bills on his desk in mock-peevish diatribe.