Chadwick's despondent vocals and a melancholic guitar line are run though a heavy wash of reverb, the kind of song that sounds like it was written at the depressing end of an all-night bender.
The conference call was proving an unexpectedly melancholic experience.
In the same way, La Santé in its present dilapidated state belongs firmly to the last century – a melancholic reminder of a different, disappearing civilisation.
Albrecht Durer portrayed genius as melancholic as early as the Renaissance and Romantic painters identified with the "mad".
I have a happy disposition, though I am also slightly melancholic.
The clipped, melancholic spareness of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, author of "The Playboy of the Western World", is detectable in Beckett, as are the windswept landscapes of the paintings of Jack Yeats, brother of the poet W.B.Yeats.
If all melancholic yarns essentially knit naivety with nostalgia, then a young hero can be a heady thing.Such is the case with Ava Bigtree, the 13-year-old at the centre of "Swamplandia!", Karen Russell's impressive debut novel.
A palpable softness, so simply conveyed.There is a melancholic heft to these stories, as if Mr Englander's tales about West Bank pioneers or vengeful geriatric Holocaust survivors are as fragile as memory, as lasting as life.
Where Ms Didion distilled her trauma into an artfully melancholic meditation on symbiosis lost, Ms Oates's book feels more like a hasty act of personal therapy.
That should have told him that his mother's sad story was not unique.Several of the rich people whom Mr Pamuk despised are today using their wealth to revitalise the melancholic city that he remembers wandering around as an unhappy youth.
This is the blow that begins "Enon", a beautifully melancholic new novel by Paul Harding (pictured).In this section Blood meridian A costly, brutal failure Place and memory Translating Herodotus Iridescence Reprints"Most men in my family make widows of their wives and orphans of their children," observes Charlie Crosby, the book's unfortunate narrator.
