Sentence examples for melancholy pose from inspiring English sources

It has often been called "The Poet" because of the subject's romantic, melancholy pose.

It shows that at this time Rossetti had come close to the final composition for the painting, which would eventually show Jane Morris, with her head head hanging forward in a brooding, melancholy pose.

David's melancholy pose, with his left leg bent at the knee, makes his left ankle perhaps the only design fault in this figure of male perfection, clearly strained by the 5,572kg of marble above.

In a large, bare room Ms. Fox has placed three diminutive sculptures of naked children assuming postures of art history: a boy sits in a melancholy pose ("Dying Gaul"), a girl is a combination of Botticelli's "Venus" and the Madonna, and another boy is Attila the Hun.

*** Anyone who saw "The Master" knows that Joaquin Phoenix can be dangerous, but Theodore is too sad to be crazy; his melancholy is posed like hip stock photography.

Anyone who saw "The Master" knows that Joaquin Phoenix can be dangerous, but Theodore is too sad to be crazy; his melancholy is posed like hip stock photography.

Each represents a season (of the year and of human life) corresponding to the youth, plenitude, maturity, and old age of the narrator, a decadent Don Juan; intertextual allusions, nostalgia for an idealized past, aristocratic posing, melancholy, underlying parody, and humour abound.

Their adolescent indulgence in melancholy, which was only a pose for Coleridge, became too real for Lamb, and he suffered a breakdown which confined him to an asylum.

The picture of John Donne "in the pose of a melancholy lover", which was recently bought by the National Portrait Gallery, has once again fixed a particular image of the poet in the public mind.

From the helpless king and his unhappy queen, who rests her head on her hand in a pose that symbolises melancholy, to their loyal knights and pious bishops, these masterpieces of early medieval art portray social types with fierce human accuracy.

John Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs 536pp, Viking, £20 The picture of John Donne "in the pose of a melancholy lover", which was recently bought by the National Portrait Gallery, has once again fixed a particular image of the poet in the public mind.