Sentence examples for melancholy madness from inspiring English sources

Her work is obsessed with death, disease, fornication, suicide, misery, melancholy, madness and all that other stuff from the Bible.

"The piston of a steam engine worked monotonously up and down like the head of an elephant in melancholy madness," – Dickens on Manchester.

But despite that, and despite subsequent debt, neglect, quarrelling and melancholy madness (there was something in the family "not quite consistent with sanity", wrote one observer), the Sackvilles went on acquiring history.

In William Hogarth's picture The Rake in Bedlam – shown here only as a print – inmates of a dank chamber exhibit various symptoms of insanity, from a man dressed as the pope to the half-naked, shaven-headed Rake who stares fixedly at the floor, fallen into a "melancholy" madness of paralysing despair.

We share our hardships and heartbreaks, our battles and break-ups, depression and discouragement and our melancholy and madness.

Named for the town of Taranto, on the southern coast, this was a large, fearsome-looking wolf spider — no relation to American tarantulas — whose bite was said to cause madness, melancholy, and death.

Youthful melancholy becomes rage.

He claimed that Poe often wandered the streets, either in "madness or melancholy", mumbling and cursing to himself, was easily irritated, was envious of others, and that he "regarded society as composed of villains".

In "The Memory Thief," a strange and melancholy journey to the heart of madness, a rootless young man finds meaning in the horrors of a stolen past.

These are melancholy spells of damage and sad madness chanted by children high on glue, crystal meth and "dream pills" who can't keep up with this too-fast world, boys and girls who have become prey: "My friend Billy dressed as a boy," Ms. Cruz writes in "California".

In the On the Edge category, which covers offbeat genre narratives, are two world premieres: "The Melancholy Fantastic," about a bereaved daughter's descent into madness, and "Hollywood Whores," a Cassavetes-like study of the pursuit of the big time in Los Angeles.