He himself tackled the subject in a brief memoir, "Darkness Visible" (1990), offering a melancholy coda to a career that was celebrated yet hardly productive.
Greta, a boxer from St . Petersburg Fla., briefly brought "Cats" back to the stage in New York, offering a melancholy whimper to accompany "Memory," which her owner played on a flute.
It's charming, well acted, and surprisingly melancholy, offering far more nuance and candour than 99percentt of the player base will ever care about.
And there are unexpected emotional moments — "the melancholy orange of autumn" offering a contrast to most picture books' cheery depictions of fall.
For more than 70 years, he has lent his impudent grin and button-bright eyes to theater, television and film, offering an air of mischief and melancholy to the characters he plays.
The 13-song mix of original Yuletide classics (like "White Christmas" and "I've Got Your Love to Keep Me Warm") and new, softer offerings captures the joy, anticipation, nostalgia and even melancholy of the Christmas season.
Lear's last years were mostly good, if persistently melancholy, spent largely in Italian villas, with Ruskin himself offering a late critical tribute to his nonsense.
It had been a night of incredible, almost mystical and melancholy feelings which resulted in one of the most beautiful, emotional musical offerings The Beach Boys ever recorded.
The program of "Melancholy and Satirical Love Songs" was a delight, ranging from Josquin Des Prez to the contemporary Americans Robert Baksa and Paul Sjolund, and offering a rich blend of moods.
