Sentence examples for melancholy reminder from inspiring English sources
I've overreached on chairs, bedding, and Scandinavian flatware that sits in my cupboard like a melancholy reminder of all the dinner parties I don't have, but never have I been tempted to drop big money on a couch.
To some Americans who are longtime residents here, the recent moves are a melancholy reminder of how much things have changed since the height of the cold war, when Germany and the United States linked arms against a common enemy on the other side of the Berlin Wall.
"Let No Man Steal Your Thyme" is a beautiful and melancholy reminder of how frightening a thing love can be.
An incidental ingredient to savour is Munro's description of the way that Christmas cards can serve as melancholy reminders of estrangement.
Twenty-two yeago ago this month, a deal was struck to ship a holy but heart-rending cargo from Prague to London: 1,500 Torah scrolls, melancholy reminders of the years when Hitler's army blitzkrieged its way across Europe.
I found it moving to walk among the temples and tiny shop houses of Chinatown, a reminder of the melancholy lives of its Cantonese, Swatow, Hakka and Hokkien settlers.
The rumpled presence of Michael Cullen in the cast as a melancholy cop is just one reminder of the Atlantic Theater Company's terrific 2005 production of Rolin Jones's "Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow," a superior play also about an academically brilliant, socially challenged young woman with parent issues.
But there were also the melancholy strains of tradition and reminders of Mr. Bellow's deep sense of his Jewishness.
Often at this time, we enjoy a heady dose of Indian summer, but even these sweet moments are tinged with melancholy, serving as sweet yet fleeting reminders of what we're about to lose.
But the dignified way he stretched his arms was a reminder that, over the centuries, melancholy has inspired elegant lyric poetry.
"I don't know whether it was my melancholy frame of mind, but it was a reminder of how fragile life is," she remembers.
