Sentence examples for comfortable melancholy from inspiring English sources
One reason perhaps is that our minds are conditioned by the wrong kind of nature poem, the kind that leaves us comfortable, melancholy, inert.
There are no beaches or Spanish-style bungalows in the hills, just a scruffy, comfortable atmosphere of melancholy optimism that suits Tom and Summer perfectly, in all their imperfection.
She looked a lot more comfortable, even content in a melancholy sort of way, at the end, when she said, "No matter what happens in this contest — and I am honored, I am honored to be here with Barack Obama.
"Melancholy can be a comfortable state," she says, knowingly.
Vocally, Ms. Bareilles sounds bright, too, and comfortable — doing her familiar trick of making the melancholy chirp.
It is the opening statement of the movie's melancholy theme of lovers who, until they meet, harbor a profound sense of insignificance and of disgust with their comfortable, meaningless lives.
Melancholy and loss prevail.
