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An example may be seen in "The Lotos-Eaters" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came".
But a happy utopia, modest, and melancholy.
The contemporary incarnation of this style is broad and loose, but generally speaking, it values gesture over statement; favors mixed diction and shifting tones; shuns traditional form; often involves dreams, collage and touches of surrealism; and inclines toward moods of whimsy, melancholy or mild happiness rather than fury, ecstasy or despair.
Mild, situational or full-blown, melancholy or the blues, depression by any name wounds the soul, to paraphrase Voltaire.
Over the last decade his anxious, melancholy countenance — the difference between mild concern and existential agony can be measured in the angle of his frown — has lent intelligence and gravity to films directed by Jacques Rivette, Marco Bellocchio and Mr. Castellitto himself.
Melancholy Prague.
Some melancholy.
Melancholy and loss prevail.
Melancholy had returned.
He's melancholy.
Smell the melancholy".
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