Clements writes with compassion and wistful humor, setting her characters' melancholy amid effervescent conversation and brilliant summer scenery.
He is full of wit and authority, yet there is an air of melancholy in his conversation - he feels that a generation has grown up casually unaware of his contribution to the classical music of the post-war era.
Mr. Gilroy relates this increasingly melancholy story with natural conversation, clear character insights and cozy old-school realism.
The lack of polite conversation suggested the melancholy and dispiriting monotony of American life, on which almost all the early reporters commented.
When I talked with the team about its experiences, a melancholy tone hovered over the conversation.
Between the lines of those digressions, behind the grin and sparkling eyes that animate his conversation, are traces of melancholy, if not outright bitterness.
But those moments were fleeting, she said, and those conversations drifted into a melancholy silence.
Pamuk's novel reminded me, in some ways, of Çağan's life in Kars: a long sequence of political conversations, in an array of melancholy venues.
Without mentioning a title, their conversation about harrowing photographs, heartfelt letters and melancholy music made it clear they were discussing the PBS miniseries The Civil War.
Their results suggest that streets with music sounds prompted more feelings of joy, sadness or melancholy, while those with human sounds like footsteps and conversation prompted joy and surprise.
Memories of Maddie's melancholy relatives are dredged up now and again in conversations with Esther.
