Sentence examples for tone of melancholy from inspiring English sources

"But then all these families just separated," he said with a tone of melancholy.

With their sustained tone of melancholy and reverie, they opened up a door to my youth.

He sounded oddly cheerful making this prediction; in his books, Pullman enjoys striking a tone of melancholy resolve.

The humor never goes away; the unpredictability is as rich as ever; but now there is the tone of melancholy behind the decorum.

As effectively as "Hidden River" sustains a tone of melancholy (reinforced by Martin Bauer's background music for guitar and cello), the film feels fragmentary and unfocused.

A change was noted in the content of the songs in Music, with most of them being simple love songs, but with an underlying tone of melancholy.

Instead of the usual tone of nostalgic melancholy, her version of "That Old Feeling" conveyed a bounce of anticipation.

Its author might be a modern Chinese counterpart to Thomas Hardy, whose intensively observed dramas of rural life have a similar tone of beguiling, melancholy strangeness.

Refusing to burnish the myth of the romantic outlaw, the writer and director, Nathan Morlando, maintains a tone of persistent melancholy that tinges every scene with foreboding.

In keeping with the overall tone of hazy melancholy that runs through all Hynes's solo work, the latter clips focus not on the film's plethora of drag queens espousing their transcendent fabulousness, but the doomed transsexual prostitute Venus Xtravaganza.

(The water in this film is supplemented by semen and, as we have seen, watermelon juice.) At his best — in "Vive l'Amour," "The River" and "What Time Is It There?" (to which "The Wayward Cloud" is something of a sequel) — Mr. Tsai achieves a tone of haunting, melancholy comedy.