Sentence examples for melancholy state from inspiring English sources

Everyone who arrives to visit the island, even in its present melancholy state, falls in love with it and its people.

Mr. Raizin alluded to the Loop's distinctly melancholy state not long ago — before the refurbishing of several theaters like the Auditorium, the expansion of Loop university campuses, and new restaurants — and the benefits of the revitalization for his firm.

Although Chace sees much to lament about American higher education--spiraling costs, increased consumerism, overly aggressive institutional self-promotion and marketing, the corruption of intercollegiate sports, and the melancholy state of the humanities--he finds more to praise.

He exists in a melancholy state somewhere between resistance and resignation, going about his daily routine out of force of habit and as a way of warding off despair.

NATE CHINEN Tomasz Stanko "Wislawa" (ECM) Tomasz Stanko's New York quartet needs at least an hour of your time: Mr. Stanko, the Polish trumpeter, is that kind of jazz musician, implying his music is a reflective and melancholy state of being rather than a set of tunes.

"She began to withdraw into a melancholy state... for days she would sit in her bedroom without dressing or eating," Crouch writes of Jan's experience of depression, "My boys remember this time most painfully … [they] had to literally learn to cook and wash clothes". I tell the shop woman I have just been to Disneyworld.

For centuries Lisboetas have discussed the symptoms of an affliction they believe to be endemic in their city: saudade ("melancholy"), a state of anxiety tempered by fatalism that is said to be reflected in fado ("fate"), the melodic but deeply emotional folk songs that can still be heard in specific restaurants, mainly in the historic quarters of Alfama and Bairro Alto.

Hence the self-aggrandizing French belief in the country's vocation to greatness — and hence the French melancholy, since the state failed to achieve that grand goal.

Gentz found himself in a state of melancholy isolation; by 1810 his advocacy of European freedom had begun to weaken.

"Coming back from depression, I identified with Prospero and his melancholy and his downcast state," Mr. Moravec said.

If there's such a thing as emotional gravity, it's the invisible force that continually pulls humans back down to their natural resting state of melancholy.