Sentence examples for increasingly melancholy from inspiring English sources

His health deteriorated, and he became increasingly melancholy.

Mr. Gilroy relates this increasingly melancholy story with natural conversation, clear character insights and cozy old-school realism.

While Mr. Bradley plugs on gamely, many of his most loyal supporters have been growing increasingly melancholy about his chances.

If none of his subsequent books have quite achieved the popular-­fiction perfection of his debut, they have been consistently thoughtful and absorbing — and increasingly melancholy.

When I first devoured the novel, after its publication in 1980, I grew increasingly melancholy — never again would I have the pleasure of reading it fresh.

Fruity, befuddled and increasingly melancholy, Tuck delivers his set as if from a well-upholstered armchair in a lonely gentleman's club.

In 1571 Michel de Montaigne, suffering increasingly from melancholy, retired to the library tower on his estate in the Périgord, and began to write his Essays.

Bartholomew was increasingly a prey to melancholy, but did not let it show, to Hester or to anyone.

Later, I learned about our pedigree, about the elegant Peruvian teams of the seventies, stories my father and uncles shared with pride, nostalgia, and, increasingly, a touch of melancholy.

Rebecca Goldstein's poignant brief life of Spinoza seems free of any ambivalence toward him, perhaps because she studies him as a melancholy instance of the increasingly vexed question of Jewish identity.

As I grew older, walking through Over-the-Rhine increasingly left me with feelings of melancholy and loss.