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Example sentences for: melancholy

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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.
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.
At one point Davis borrows Walter Benjamin's melancholy idea that history is a dialectical fairy tale--a bunch of contradictory stories people tell about themselves, "linked together by strange ironies."
Too many facts, too much information: We need to make politics more beautiful, melancholy, strange.
"I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people," he says, a look of melancholy shadowing his face.