Sentence examples for melancholy shadow from inspiring English sources

Since then, he now realizes, he has been dragging his childhood along with him like a giant, melancholy shadow.

Latin America's history and culture, Alonso suggests, began with the loss of Bolívar's dream of a united continent and as a result has developed under a melancholy shadow ever since.

Present blurs with past, life shades to death, and things unseen haunt the melancholy shadows, delicately cast, in this entrancing Paraguayan clearing.

Knowing that the journal bore the name of a real person who had endured years of struggle threw melancholy shadows over the enterprise.

"Knowing that the journal bore the name of a real person who had endured years of struggle threw melancholy shadows over the enterprise," Mr. Eggers wrote on the McSweeney's site.

His notion of entitlement grows out of his seniority and his unstinting service to the party in almost every capacity except one: Presidential nominee... Dole's reply to the State of the Union address conveyed a sense of exhaustion; the melancholy shadows and tones of Dole's appearance brought into high relief an image that his advisers had carefully sought to suppress.

But in David Leveaux's beautifully judged production the brightness is thoroughly veined with melancholy; the shadows linger.

You can find out a lot from the company a composer keeps, and there's a nice line to be traced from the early English composers John Dunstable and John Dowland to Birtwistle: it's a shared quality of mystery and melancholy, of shadows and pauses and memory.

He was partly paralyzed for several days and recovered only slowly, a melancholy and thinner shadow of his former self.

Keaton's smooth brow and melancholy deadpan, customarily shadowed by a porkpie hat, express an ingenious, innocent determination to surmount whatever obstacles the universe imposes.

Even without the benefit of Severn's commentary, the viewer is struck with a sense of melancholy beauty: the shadows of the two chairs and of the soulful-looking Keats contrasting with the brightness of the open book on his lap and the inviting beauty of the garden outside the open door.