Sentence examples similar to a melancholy query from inspiring English sources

Struggle!" References to Socialism and Communism were delivered as comic punch lines, with the audience in stitches at such statements as, "Use this hammer to pound socialism into your brain!," or the melancholy query, "Why haven't we realized Communism yet?" posed while the questioner picked lice out of a fellow comrade's hair.

This was a melancholy "Cinderella".

He smiled a melancholy smile.

He gives it a melancholy look.

It's "a melancholy duck," he adds.

Sales can be a melancholy job.

It is indeed a melancholy scene.

It was a melancholy occasion.

Verse - "In a melancholy passion I".

It's a melancholy prospect.

A melancholy phrase echoes down the years.