In consequence, the art of the period often seems melancholic and introverted, the discontent expressing itself in historical and exotic themes or in a passionate concern with the humble and rejected members of society.
From garrulous Sweden, where everybody speaks English, to Finland, where nobody does and people seem as melancholic as the characters in a Russian novel.
The Americans portrayed a place and a people that many Americans just could not, or did not want to see: a sad, hard, divided country that seemed essentially melancholic rather than heroic.
And sure, it wasn't the usual kind of electro remix you hear everywhere these days, but it seemed more melancholic than dark.
What should one make of the fact that in W. G. Sebald's fiction, all the characters seem indistinguishably Sebaldian: melancholic, elegiacal, ill-starred?
I asked him about the seeming disparity between his happy disposition and his melancholic music, wondering what that dynamic was like.
A melancholic disposition seems to have been exacerbated by the death of his wife.
Like Rembrandt, Fabritius stands outside the sociable Dutch mainstream, seems drawn to lonely, melancholic moments.
Her sense of melancholic restraint seems all the more wondrous when watching some of the amazing yet overblown covers of the song on YouTube.
22. JACK Jason Manford One of Moz's earliest customers, the melancholic Jack seems to be on the receiving end of a never-ending stream of bad luck.
The modest journey from the simple song of the "Entrance," over a few colorful scenes of hunting, haunting, flowers (lonely) and birds (prophetic), to the achingly melancholic "Farewell" seemed instead epic.
