Sentence examples for Melancholy from inspiring English sources

They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying.

It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.

Around the random murders, the film hones in on Berlin's melancholy, a landscape of puddles and prostitutes, a silent city – the hush broken by bells or shrieks, the tap-tap of a tool being sharpened, and haunted by the killer's eerie whistling of Grieg's "In the Hall of The Mountain King".

After the melancholy party had stayed there for some time, Monsieur Tournevau remarked: 'This isn't very cheerful, is it?' Unable to lose themselves in carnality and frolics, the men must confront reality, which Maupassant presents as a yawning void filled with monotonous echoes.

We are now on the roof, but I can hear the guitars and the humble Andean folk downstairs singing a melancholy refrain.

And just in time, before I am entirely overwhelmed by melancholy courtesy of the Wogan all-time favourite playlist, he plays an unbeat one.

Measured but never bloodless, ranging from skittish to melancholy, it was a fittingly virtuoso way to close an evening that underlined the Academy's reputation for musical excellence.

Unexpectedly he lets out a guttural, melancholy groan.

The melancholy poetry of its secular patron saint, Philip Larkin, seems to ooze from the banks of the Humber.

There was just one, melancholy hint of warmth in eight days – a letter from one of the daughters he left in Iran, gushing to him about her wedding.

This is the simple but rather melancholy observation that, when you knock away thousands of years of ritual, poetry, myth and song, love is just another neurobiological process, like sweating.