Sentence examples for melancholic disposition from inspiring English sources
His naturally melancholic disposition was emphasised when at the age of six he fell prey to alopecia: "Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was a always a chance that at every corner someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up.
In June 1890, he painted several portraits of the physician, including Portrait of Dr. Gachet, and his only etching; in each, the emphasis is on Gachet's melancholic disposition.
The vast majority of the 700 or so guests who have chosen their favourite music over the last 14 years conclude by saying that, until confronted by their music in my studio, they had not realised quite how melancholic a disposition they possessed.
Although reflecting his melancholic and ailing disposition, it was a fine example of the outraged erudition for which he was known, as well as an unrivaled account of contemporary Russian social life and conservative thought.
It has occurred to me in my cheerful old age that my disposition is predominantly melancholic.
I asked him about the seeming disparity between his happy disposition and his melancholic music, wondering what that dynamic was like.
I have a happy disposition, though I am also slightly melancholic.
The human dispositions corresponding to these humours are, respectively, sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic.
Whitman was melancholic, impulsive, bohemian.
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