Sentence examples for mood of melancholy from inspiring English sources
This mood of melancholy settles in slowly.
"The overall blue tonality creates a mood of melancholy and mystery".
A mood of melancholy has invaded him, as if the brown tones of his room had seeped into his brain.
Adams attached a feminist program, highlighting the misogyny of the Scheherazade legend; the protagonist holds her own against dogmatic thrashings of the orchestra, and steals away in a mood of melancholy rapture.
Colouring everything, like dark ink in the clear water of this prose, is a pervasive mood of melancholy and controlled excitement which is very visual – Cusk is brilliant at interiors, capturing a city busy changing itself at feverish speed.
Just as Mr. Buchan captured the mood of war-torn Beirut in his 1985 novel, "A Parish of Rich Women," so he manages in these pages to conjure up the atmosphere of pre- and post-revolutionary Iran -- its heavy mood of melancholy, its reeling under the weight of too much history.
Her first book, Dikter (1916; "Poems"), expressed shifting moods of melancholy and joy in a free verse form that was indebted to the Symbolist poets.
The opening story, "Crooner", establishes a mood of quiet melancholy.
The opener, "Crooner", establishes a mood of quiet melancholy.
More rarely his works evoke a mood of romantic melancholy, as in Wake of the Ferry (1907).
The bittersweet scent of loss has always wafted through Larry McMurtry's fiction, creating a mood of wistful melancholy.
