Sentence examples for sweet melancholy from inspiring English sources

There's a sweet melancholy in her solitude.

But even those elegant after-dark dresses, tinged by fire, had a sweet melancholy.

It had a sweet, melancholy air and a delicate line, like something from the Scottish Highlands.

Felber gives Grant, an associate of Johnny Felix Decaté's, a sweet melancholy that transcends caricature.

We see his face one last time through the window, to the sweet melancholy music.

But it blossoms into a reaffirmation of love that closes the program on a lingering note of sweet melancholy.

Barbara Hannigan sings the songs of Erik Satie as if she's sitting next to you, whispering and cooing across the kitchen table with sufficient breathiness, soft edges and exquisite spaciousness to match Reinbert de Leeuw's sweet-melancholy piano chords.

But there is something sweet, if melancholy, in seeing Glass slow down a little as he approaches 78.

The music there was by Jules Massenet, who loved the peacefulness of country life and whose sweet, sometimes melancholy tranquillity is only rarely touched by true discord.

In a short, sweet and melancholy song, Peter Blegvad contemplates a painting by René Magritte, in which bowler-hatted men fall like rain from the sky.

The actor has always managed to strike a careful balance between film (most recently Spectre, The Lobster and Suffragette), theatre (starting out with Hamlet at the Old Vic) and TV (Criminal Justice, The Hour), but never has a specific part been so thoughtfully tailored to his qualities: sweet yet melancholy, and always slightly mysterious.