Their chemistry with her is a weird mix of flirtatious banter and almost fatherly, melancholy concern.
Sam Mendes's "Away We Go" (June 5), a sometimes raucous, sometimes melancholy road movie, concerns the obstacles a young couple who are expecting their first baby encounter in their search for a place to put down roots — preferably near friends — and raise a family.
Something was happening, from about 1600 on, to make melancholy a major concern of the reading public, and the simplest explanation is that there was more melancholy around to be concerned about.
While concerned with the melancholy closure of ageing, the poem conveys in parenthesis the limitlessness of adolescent aspiration.
With the respect to the latter, Descartes is again concerned with the connection between physical and mental well-being, and in particular the deleterious effects of passions such as sadness, grief, fear and melancholy.
An anti-prostitution group delays the film production of Gabriel García Márquez's "My Melancholy Whores," citing pedophilia concerns.
Mr. Masur devoted the first half of the program to a sumptuous, gracefully shaped performance of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony, perhaps as a reminder that his readings of the standard Romantic canon have always had a seductive sweep, but also, it seemed in retrospect, as a sweetly melancholy, innocent backdrop to the concerns of the Shostakovich.
Earlier Saturday, at a bus stop in State College, students waited anxiously for transport to the game with a melancholy mix of school pride and concern.
Other chapters are more elliptical, melancholy accounts of Ms. Cunningham's attempts to grapple with health concerns and a failing marriage.
Adrian Scarborough's excellent Fool is a melancholy music hall comic in a check suit and feathered trilby, full of oblique, subtly anguished concern for his master.
Moore has canvassed the melancholy territory of grief before, in her first novel, "Alligator," but in "February" it's the heart of her concern.
