Sentence examples for a touch melancholy from inspiring English sources

After the hum and flair of San Juan Capistrano, the gardens of the Santa Barbara Mission, about 150 miles north, struck me as serene, even a touch melancholy.

Despite the Happy Centre (where old folks hang out) and Happy High (not a marijuana farm but the town's school), Happyites seemed, that day at any rate, just a touch melancholy.

Jeffrey Blitz wanted the film's music to be "sweet and a touch melancholy and just a step out of rhythm", demonstrating Hal's sense of himself in the world, and to express his teenage angst while "maintain[ing] an underlying sweetness".

The plot has a touching melancholy.

Ms. Myles gives Agnes a touching melancholy, and the exchanges between Leeford and Elizabeth are alive with vitriol.

His poems are written in a simple style, characterized by optimism and charm and, toward the end of his life, by a touching melancholy.

Friends of Mine takes on a touching melancholy, prefaced by the announcement that most of the married couples it lists are divorced or dead.

He's also told a touching, melancholy tale.

But there was a touch of melancholy, a hint of preoccupation, about his mood.

Billie Holiday's plaintive tones show up on the soundtrack, a touch of melancholy high civilization amid the mayhem.

And I felt a touch of melancholy — I stood still, dead tired — over the blue-black fjord and city hung blood and tongues of fire.