Sentence examples for strong melancholy from inspiring English sources

At the same time there's a strong, melancholy suggestion that the people who inhabit this flat but fluid landscape can never fully step into the world they live in.

People are always saying, 'Well, who did you aim this at?' and I keep replying, 'Books are not missiles, you don't aim them at anybody'" – and it's certainly true that his work has always stood apart, rooted in a certain type of head-down, hard-working Englishness and possessed of a strong melancholy streak.

The flames were shooting up the masts, throwing a strong and melancholy light over the sea.

That image contributes to the strong feeling of melancholy that pervades this book.

Mexican culture has a strong fixaction with melancholy, stemming from tragedy and death.

A strong sense of melancholy emanates from some scenes, as various PKK members reflect on their fate.

For a children's film, it has unusually strong notes of melancholy: at one point, Mrs. Fox tells her husband, "I love you, but I never should have married you".

In 1977 Le Mesurier portrayed Jacob Marley in a 1977 BBC television adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which starred Michael Hordern as Ebenezer Scrooge; Sergio Angelini, writing for the British Film Institute about Le Mesurier's portrayal, considered that "although never frightening, he does exert a strong sense of melancholy, his every move and inflection seemingly tinged with regret and remorse".

"It's a little like Mozart, who was a master of ambiguity in that his works can often be regarded as little tinkling, felicitous things, but there's a strong note of melancholy running throughout.

His letters from these years are typically brief and businesslike, but occasionally allow glimpses of a melancholy, strong-willed personality.

But perhaps of all genres, including country and folk, the strongest roots of the melancholy tree grow from the blues.