Sentence examples for melancholy remark from inspiring English sources
It's a melancholy remark by an enfant terrible who's no longer an enfant.
Noting that Ms. Souliers is 13 years his senior, Mr. André remarked, with melancholy pragmatism, "The women live longer, so it's the only chance to die together".
One rainy day, a woman in a fur coat remarked that the weather made her "melancholy".
After the melancholy party had stayed there for some time, Monsieur Tournevau remarked: 'This isn't very cheerful, is it?' Unable to lose themselves in carnality and frolics, the men must confront reality, which Maupassant presents as a yawning void filled with monotonous echoes.
He remarked that "in nature there is nothing melancholy," (line 15) expressing hope "we may not thus profane / Nature's sweet voices, always full of love / And joyance!" (lines 40 42).
Two centuries ago, the Duke of Wellington remarked that "nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won". In our day, great battles are rare, while wars have become commonplace.
