Guasti's frustration and melancholy at his decade-long effort being expunged lasted only as long as it took him to realise that nothing had really been expunged.
Guasti's frustration and melancholy at his decade-long effort being expunged lasted only as long as it took him to realize that nothing had really been expunged.
But the play's roiling undercurrents — of melancholy, frustration, romantic longing, repressed primal urges — still resonate.
Some more so than others, yes, but it's there inside us all as we experience sadness, melancholy, frustration, disappointment, hurt and, hopefully, some joy along the way.
Rap reached France in the 1980s, and almost instantly immigrant youths in Marseille vented their melancholy and frustration in verses salted with local slang.
Wes Anderson's world may be a place of wonder and caprice, but it is also a realm of melancholy and frustration, as if all the cool, exotic bric-a-brac had been amassed to compensate for a persistent feeling of emptiness.
There are funny bits but these are real lives and there's a tone of darkness, melancholy and frustration in these men.
All this confrontation and frustration is reflected in the melancholy undertones of their religious beliefs, particularly those of the Sumerians, for whom success and prosperity came to be identified with the principle of fertility and thus could only be attained by the appeasement of capricious deities.
But hovering over the fistfights, gun battles and car chases is an aura of melancholy: a blend of frustration, fatigue and paternal guilt that is interesting and unusual.
This one, of his ancestor and namesake, seems caught in a swirl of melancholy, a knowing, weary consciousness of the frustrations and limitations of human life.
