Her delight turns melancholic as she reflects on the inability to completely possess the beloved: I know her so well, I think.
How we turn this melancholic experience of loss into a form of satisfaction is the subject of Tate Britain's exhibition Ruin Lust, curated by Brian Dillon (editor of Ruins, a 2011 collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery).
On a headland five minutes walk away, a seventeenth-century Portuguese castle has been turned into a melancholic national museum.There are faded photographs of colonial families and evidence of the summary justice meted out by the Portuguese to the Angolans - who were brought to work on the cocoa and coffee plantations.
Surprised by how melancholic Chaleur Humaine turned out, Letissier wants to bring her live energy into a sweaty, carnal second album.
They're distant, shadowy compositions that feel at turns placid, melancholic, and anxious, the sort of dizzying wash of emotions you feel when you quiet the voices of the modern world and sit in your own head, staring at the world outside.
It turned the composer's symbolist fantasy into a melancholic evocation of ruin.
Garai gives a sly, dogged, melancholic performance, turning curiosity into a desirable sexual characteristic.
It turned out that 91% of the patients met the criteria for major depressive disorder with melancholic or psychotic features when in a depressive phase.
"Cool, romantic, melancholic" are words Kaplan uses to describe the music – little wonder then that it has turned up in a lot of films.
In one masterful sequence, a melancholic piano piece turns into a frenzied duet that builds to a moment of imagined rapture – and then vanishes.
As in the novel, the story turns on Charlie (Logan Lerman), a melancholic teenager who has endured his share of sorrows and, when the story cranks up in 1991, is praying to make it through the new school year.
