St. Mary's Cathedral, on another side, reminded me of the Anglican churches that cast a melancholy shade over English cemeteries in the hill stations of India.
Phoebe Unwin's paintings have a slow-burn quality, too – External Outline of a Thing (Head) is a vague rendering of a head in melancholy bathroom shades, topped with thick smudges of waxy, fatty paint in an ambiguous shade of eau-de-nil.
"This is the age of thieves, the age of misbelief," he sings in a lustrous, melancholy voice with shades of Tim Buckley and Nick Drake.
Further melancholy cast its shade over "Life During Wartime" — quite an achievement, considering the hot, acrylic hues of the cinematography and the direction of Todd Solondz, whom we associate less with the wistful than the waspish.
Under cover of pastoral conventions, Behn writes observant, searching poems about her complex personal relationships with other male and female writers in her coterie, or "cabal", and her satires on male sexual behaviour are astute, if at times a shade melancholy.
Her lovely collages of fabric swatches, drawings and photographs of flowers, animals and interiors are composed not by theme, as one might expect, but according to her mood -- often wistful shading to melancholy -- at the moment she reaches for the glue stick.
Typically, Wyeth's Pennsylvania pictures are painted with reticent shades of melancholy ochre.
The other characters who lurk around the fringes express varying shades of melancholy and rage.
Sweetness, gentleness, simplicity, and a romantic vision shaded by melancholy are the characteristic features of Longfellow's poetry.
She is described as a thin, graceful woman with a slight pallor in her cheeks and a shade of melancholy in her eyes.
