Long after their last hit, this nevertheless is the album of their career: beautiful songs dripping with heartbreak, melancholy, maturity and insight.
Perhaps living through Alaska's long dark winter gives a writer extra insight into melancholy.
The jig that is Sting's "Soul Cake" reintroduces us to the traditional holiday perennial that Peter, Paul & Mary once immortalized with an insight into melancholy that the trio's brooding version never communicated.
It exhibits nothing like the sympathy that "Spider-Man" brings to the melancholy arachnid soul, or the insight that "Shrek 2" offers into donkey neurosis.
And as the Missile confidently presided over a cowed City Council on Wednesday, his schools emissary co-starred in melancholy political theater that gave insight into the mayor's ultimate challenges.
A million miles removed from such peripherally comparable fare as Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us or Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies, Joshua Z Weinstein's fiction-feature debut gets right under the skin of its characters, gently unpicking themes of social conformity and religious responsibility with melancholy wit and wry, tragicomic insight.
A wry and melancholy narrative written with tart insight by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty and quietly but faultlessly directed by Marielle Heller ("The Diary of a Teenage Girl"), "Forgive" begins with Israel's downward slide.
Mr. Gilroy relates this increasingly melancholy story with natural conversation, clear character insights and cozy old-school realism.
Everyone is very English about it: phlegmatic, accepting, melancholy, and this is arguably a shrewd, real insight into how people would actually be — or, indeed, how they actually are.
Such is the curse of self-consciousness, which gives us extraordinary insight into ourselves but whose companions are melancholy, alienation and paralysis.
He has given us new insight into the human condition by virtue of the melancholy voyage he was forced to take.
