Sentence examples similar to melancholy intrigue from inspiring English sources
He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1940's and 50's and has retained his affinity for the seedy boîtes and frowsy rooms that lend his books a blend of melancholy and intrigue.
A former textile designer, motorcycle racer, inventor, importer-exporter, trucker, folk dancer, snowboarder, airline ground crewman and masseur (among other pursuits), Attila shares snippets of his past with his students, cultivating an aura of melancholy and intrigue that captures the author's imagination.
Peter Straughan, the screenwriter who adapted John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy into a successful movie, is to take on another melancholy tale of international intrigue: The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt's bestselling and Pulitzer-winning novel.
Intrigued at first, he becomes isolated and melancholy.
He survived colonial wars, the Khmer Rouge and the intrigues of the cold war, but his last years were marked by expressions of melancholy, and he complained often about the poverty and abuses of what he called "my poor nation".
Intrigue piled on intrigue.
