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"melancholy" Definitions
  1. very sad or making you feel very sad

927 Sentences With "melancholy"

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Anno's response to audiences failing to grasp the product of his melancholy was to impose that melancholy on them.
More, Chellet's energy was passively mournful and the most uninteresting way to play a character who is melancholy is by being resolutely melancholy.
Daniel: I spent 12 years writing a book about melancholy, so I have deep respect for melancholy aesthetics and the philosophical problems they engender.
In Robert Burton's lifework, "The Anatomy of Melancholy," the 17th century author details the many forms of melancholy and our futile attempts to cure it.
Originally a melancholy sitcom about adult dating, "Casual" has grown into a melancholy (but still sharply funny) meditation on belonging, happiness and the many meanings of family.
The film's blend of curatorial nostalgia and dystopian prophecy captured a mood of self-conscious melancholy in its moment and set a tone of melancholy self-consciousness that has endured ever since.
And they continue on "Otra Noche en Miami," which combines 1980s synth-pop melancholy with Drake-style melancholy for an utterly modern downer about how a glamorous life is no replacement for love.
Duke Caboom is a toy with both machismo and melancholy.
Advertiser, dated September 12, 1790: A melancholy accident happened a
For Frank, time stands still, all held breath and melancholy.
"It's the persistent presence of sadness or melancholy," Chick explains.
So it's a happy celebration with a bit of melancholy.
These images feel like quintessential Dylan: melancholy, quietly painful, distilled.
I guess there's a lot more melancholy stuff on it.
So I can easily get quite melancholy when I'm alone.
Fred McLaughlin speaks with a melancholy tinge in his voice.
Moreover, their work is touched with a degree of melancholy.
I just heard my favorite musician finding catharsis in melancholy.
You feel a tinge of melancholy, but you're ultimately nonplussed.
There seems nothing more melancholy than the fate of prodigies.
A jeweller's shop bears the melancholy sign "I Buy Gold".
Most are marked by a sense of loss and melancholy.
But not to 'I feel bad,' and not to melancholy .
It's the season of melancholy, cooling temperatures, and falling leaves.
Gorey took endless pains over these funny and melancholy books.
"Russia can be quite melancholy," said Daniil, product lead, 23.
He also has the dreamy melancholy of an aging man.
He also said Ms. Ortega also showed signs of melancholy.
He appears to be immersed in contemplation, melancholy but determined.
Buzz Aldrin talked of "the melancholy of all things done".
"There's a sort of melancholy about them," Mr. Lamache said.
How does Valencia Robin's beautiful poem work its melancholy magic?
Back home, her mood is less melancholy and more confrontational.
The music has tender energy, and an undercurrent of melancholy.
The climate of "Casa de Lava" is ripe and melancholy.
Perhaps only these two Spaniards could make melancholy so fun.
In "Moses," Zornberg captures a man and prophet of melancholy.
Little Scream, makes delicate, whispering pop with a melancholy edge.
I am not depressed, not even a little bit melancholy.
There's melancholy in the way the name sounds in Arabic.
Its light tone signals an escapist impulse from the melancholy.
A sense of nostalgia, or perhaps it is more of a melancholy, can haunt many of Sedira's filmic and photographic scenes: the melancholy of ruins, of decay, as in the photographs in "Haunted Houses" (2006).
Keanu Reeves is a human capable of both machismo and melancholy.
He was melancholy, empathetic, sometimes a romantic and always fiercely loyal.
There's a melancholy shot through it, but a playful kick too.
It's tragic, but the BB's emotive expressions melt away all melancholy.
The photographs ultimately are melancholy with a tinge of the unnatural.
His melancholy recital of Lamar's words is superimposed as a voiceover.
Now for a bit of melancholy: Want to pick one up?
His exasperated manager eventually moved office to escape Bartleby's melancholy presence.
It has good jokes, good characters, and a surprising melancholy streak.
It wasn't only a building burning down; the melancholy was deeper.
It's uncommonly beautiful, and its melancholy, reflective tone can be lulling.
Euphoria is haunted by the ghost of unshakeable melancholy and manipulation.
Today is creative and inspiring, yet there's melancholy in the air.
In March, The Weeknd released a surprise EP, My Dear Melancholy.
So for every exuberant Christmas special, there is a melancholy counterpart.
But at least by the end, it's a beautifully melancholy oddity.
They're shot in melancholy black and white, with almost no dialogue.
Let us turn our backs to this melancholy and alarmist view.
A subtle sense of melancholy hangs over these men and women.
It had a musty smell and a melancholy look of neglect.
Peck responds sensitively to the jaunty, jazzy, sometimes melancholy Poulenc score.
Melancholy, if you're doing it right, can be deeply, profoundly satisfying.
Mute and palpable, the melancholy would last at least through March.
Though I didn't see darkness in Nick, I did see melancholy.
Friedrich Kunath's latest exhibition is fragrant with nostalgia, melancholy, and whimsy.
"Up to Me" is a melancholy love song, and it's beautiful.
Amid all the exuberance, we do get a single melancholy note.
She does not appear to have read the book on melancholy.
The patient's worried look turned melancholy as he realized his predicament.
And happy: Her mother, Sabreen, given to melancholy, recorded her laughing.
But there was definitely a sense of melancholy in the air.
The stables were similarly melancholy, and home to Walter's horse Afterglow.
Her bouts of melancholy are an old story with the family.
This is the march of progress, tinged with melancholy, as always.
The Fifth Suite's Sarabande was a long, sinuous exhalation of melancholy.
Once again, I felt the strange churning of melancholy and joy.
"Death strikes their house," he intones, his voice cavernous and melancholy.
Her attitude is wry self-deprecation laced with hints of melancholy.
Inspiring stories and melancholy stories and tender stories and nutty stories.
The kind of sadness or melancholy feeling of waiting of longing.
Meetings were clipped; havoc, routine; graying hairlines, a melancholy performance bonus.
He replied in a tone of resigned melancholy more than outrage.
It was this that had brought the profound melancholy upon him.
I sensed that Sascha was feeling some of the same melancholy.
Sotheby's broadcast the proceedings online, and it was a melancholy sight.
They have tones and notes of melancholy unmatched by other games.
Mr. Carsen sees Verdi's bustling comic opera as overcast with melancholy.
An overenthusiastic letter writer can lose sight of this melancholy truth.
Each work strikes an endearing balance between black humor and melancholy.
Given such a mood, his trademark melancholy curdles into unsavory fantasy.
Whether it's the lilting but insistent grace of "Silver Lining," the gentle melancholy of "White Witches," or the more full-throttle, chugging melody of "Haunt," it's a record that ebbs and flows seamlessly between euphoria and melancholy.
There is none of Vonnegut's melancholy, born from personal experience in war.
He was melancholy and he's like, 'I messed things up with us.
His songs are languorous exhalations, poised in melancholy, accepting redemption and submission.
Despite the fluorescent pinks and welcoming, warm yellows, the painting is melancholy.
Her mixture of melancholy and hopefulness makes Mia first and foremost relatable.
There was a certain melancholy to Ke Jie's capitulation, to be sure.
Energetic and detached, these songs cast revealing shadows on delight and melancholy.
The melancholy of his writing suggested a well of sadness in himself.
A "thicket of melancholy and suspicion" follows, von Wilmsdorff says off camera.
In such works the exhibition reflects a shift from utopia to melancholy.
The best kind of humor has a little melancholy to it. Absolutely.
Simon & Garfunkel infused melancholy into the final, ambiguous frames of The Graduate.
He sounds genuinely proud of his purchase, but also a little melancholy.
Prior to regenerating, the Doctor was sometimes gruff, melancholy, and darkly sarcastic.
"Living like a lonely lord," Disick responds with a note of melancholy.
But there was no sadness, no grim melancholy to it this time.
"Prior to Melancholy, I had a whole album written, done," Tesfaye says.
Instead of rage, you get affectionate hindsight that cuts the pervasive melancholy.
TOWARD THE END of the trip, my melancholy caught up with me.
" He described their ultimate effect as being a sensation of "sweet melancholy.
It was sad to watch the once-bustling store look this melancholy.
As always, the theme of the day was the melancholy of change.
But there is a hidden melancholy, like a family secret never discussed.
But each resonates with the others, like movements in a melancholy symphony.
His voice and trumpet expressed a cosmic languor shaded with romantic melancholy.
Hamilton We stop the press to announce the melancholy intelligence that Gen.
He said the link between all performances is an expression of melancholy.
"Get Free" is fine melancholy pop, with real lift in the chorus.
The result is an honest, often melancholy photo series Vincenzi titled Metamorphosis.
"Ashes" is a melancholy, magisterial work, of big dreams and sudden death.
The moods of "Musik" are alternately dark, festive, pensive, regal and melancholy.
She uses an overtly light palette, especially pale blue, to signal melancholy.
German doctors used to prescribe walking – spazieren – as a cure for melancholy.
She's written a story of millennial melancholy in gory detail: Friendships end.
Mr. Rock does not wallow in melancholy and regret over lost love.
A melancholy attended to that moment, an irresolvable sense of what-if.
Having achieved the absolute peace of nullification, the narrator is beyond melancholy.
Plucks of electric guitar work that instrument for all its echoey melancholy.
It's the same as with music: I'm drawn to melancholy in books.
But sometimes, when we're out in the world, I'm overtaken by melancholy.
This is where the ever-melancholy Moonlight makes its beautifully sad point.
The recent presidential election shadows this hour, particularly in its melancholy mood.
In Shirley, ordinary-looking young women are wracked by barely suppressed melancholy.
Is it melancholy to think of this being your last Carnegie performance?
Some melancholy—not to say fearful—thoughts crop up in my head.
In Netflix's Cheer, there's always a melancholy sense of the future looming.
" Before plotting "Pierre," he read " Anatomy of Melancholy ," an edition inscribed "A.
Mr. Day-Lewis composes a symphony of moods: sardonic, melancholy, inspired, impatient.
It can suggest melancholy, abandonment, or resignation; certainly something is (literally) askew.
" After a moment, he added, " 'Melancholy' is a better word than 'sad.
Depicting melancholy, Henrot seems to imply, requires a great deal of playfulness.
They had a final, melancholy meeting in a Jersey bar—the Rickshaw Inn.
TFW: You want to slow dance a little, but like, with melancholy. 8.
I think this record is us applying that to our melancholy childlike things.
Rocannon's World, Ursula K. Le Guin's first novel, remains her most melancholy one.
His work shows his acceptance of the distinct pairing of nostalgia and melancholy.
" I let myself give into melancholy when I hear "Life Is A Gamble.
Margo Price's melancholy sophomore album, All American Made, is rooted in real heartbreak.
The glowing orbs and digital horizons had us spellbound in an uplifted melancholy.
And how she takes some perverse comfort in the melancholy of being single.
This mood of melancholy, tinged with inanity, pervades the rest of the exhibit.
That being said, the song is not pure melancholy, nor is Symon melancholic.
In the present, James perches on that same melancholy-inducing swing with Alyssa.
But the last thing Princess Margaret would have wanted, Brown said, was melancholy.
Later, Plato argued that because childhood shaped one's character, experience caused melancholy instead.
It feels like she's expunging her heartache and melancholy by sharing it us.
The imagery combined with the soundtrack and voiceovers makes for haunting, melancholy scenes.
Despite their sound's inherent lightheartedness, the weight of a certain melancholy is palpable.
Melancholy Saturn begins its retrograde today, finding you in a sensitive mood, Gemini.
I think people connect sonically with melancholy but to me that's not sad.
"Every bit of optimism is met with a bit of melancholy," said Paul.
You will never meet the individual with whom you share this melancholy workplace.
"Later on, he will recall this decisive moment with resigned melancholy," Asbrink writes.
They seem to capture a contemporary sense of anxiety and melancholy and uncertainty.
Franaszek's richly detailed, dramatic, and melancholy book is full of such close calls.
His melancholy, along with his waggish humor, goes more unguarded in his songs.
His brother sang the lead parts in a melancholy timbre and played guitar.
Artists that always had these kind of melancholy flavors and Rhodes pad sounds.
This blend of melancholy and horror is elsewhere in the Zelda franchise too.
"Your feelings of longing or melancholy are often battling ambient sounds," she said.
This past Friday, Mr. Lueth was melancholy as he lingered in his home.
Your parents are well aware of his lifelong melancholy and tendency to isolate.
"Bars are generally happy places with a bit of melancholy," Mr. Yu said.
The dark ambiance established is that of sober celebration tinged with melancholy reflection.
Perhaps that's why seeing him read on his own is tinged with melancholy.
But "Happytime" never approaches that show's melancholy insight into the machinery of celebrity.
The effect was romantic and quirky and charmingly melancholy, which is her signature.
We were excited and melancholy and needy and pissy and impatient and satisfied.
It's an "obsessive, melancholy and hungry-making" book, our critic Dwight Garner writes.
Sometimes the melancholy incumbents wear party hats; sometimes the diner floats in space.
Playing Batman as melancholy and middle-aged was certainly not the safe choice.
The electronic musician who calls himself Burial deals in blurry, melancholy, ominous implications.
Which came first The Melancholy of Departure or The Double Dream of Spring.
I open the car windows to let out some of the stifling melancholy.
My baseline personality is anxious, brooding melancholy peppered with spurts of Pomeranian enthusiasm.
Joshua Harmon's melancholy comedy of friendship and marriage will toss its final bouquet.
The voices, and attitudes, of the three are identical: puzzled, passive and melancholy.
There is an air of melancholy in the halls of the presidential palace.
On the radio, guitar trios played boleros, melancholy songs of romance and regret.
But the laxity and wit in much of this music masks a melancholy.
" 1998 - Portrays a melancholy millionaire who feuds with a precocious teen in "Rushmore.
The Weeknd became a star with melancholy confessions about his self-destructive tendencies.
All nine tracks (and three bonus ones) explore the melancholy nature of existence.
Elba), a melancholy neurosurgeon, on a charter plane to Denver with Alex (Ms.
Simon's experimental palettes can be alternatingly gray and melancholy, or warm and vibrant.
For such a wild show, "KINK HAÜS" ends on a surprisingly melancholy note.
Rather than emanate excitement, videos of such spaces are weighed down with melancholy.
Abel Tesfaye has released a new EP as The Weeknd, My Dear Melancholy,.
Having that knowledge added a vibrancy to the melancholy of Ned's chapters on reread.
And for me, the book is both a source of inspiration and true melancholy.
"PDX" might be the most striking song, all melancholy drift and spoken-word poetry.
A post-apocalyptic story alternates between the three Ms: melancholy, melodrama, and meta-humor.
In another scene, the duo flies through the air in a melancholy aerial waltz.
That uniquely airless sense of sadness and melancholy is one of its primary draws.
Some of us watching from afar met the news with both elation and melancholy.
But Fanning also threads a sense of melancholy and longing beneath Grace's glowing exterior.
The melodic progression of "HoursDaysMonthsSeasons" initially follows a circular logic, suggestive of stationary melancholy.
The song is melancholy yet romantic, reminiscent of Donny Hathaway's honey-dipped heartbreak hymns.
Conflicted and melancholy though it may be, The Life of Pablo brings good cheer.
And she has another song called 'Coming Down' that's so beautiful and so melancholy.
"Gold," the first movement, began with a melancholy cello melody buoyed by gentle pizzicati.
A melancholy kind of pop (check those plaintive piano chords) it's still uplifting, somehow.
Against the melancholy that never really lifted—for how could it ever do so?
One day, feeling an uncustomary melancholy, he sat in his house during a rain.
While Mr. Sokurov's Francophilia is apparent, so is a melancholy sense of national grievance.
"Los Pepes" finds "Narcos" sharing the teensiest of melancholy with Escobar over his situation.
The breeze made the cables above the bungalows whisper of the Sunday afternoon's melancholy.
Few humans on earth know this melancholy truth better than the citizens of Florence.
"This drawing shows a certain wistfulness I think, a certain melancholy even," Clayton said.
The cavernous, slightly melancholy beat conjured both R. & B. and New Age meditation music.
The LP itself flickers between melancholy acoustics and brighter, full-band chunks of Americana.
Historically, delusions in the past were often considered a symptom of melancholy, of depression.
They pronounce words like "melancholy" and "dichotomy" with the "ch" making the "cha" sound.
Galifianakis is in rare form here, switching between existential melancholy and short-fused impatience.
Elaine de Kooning's "John F. Kennedy" (1963), in contrast, has an air of melancholy.
Maybe it's a Jewish thing, this combination of joy and melancholy expressed through food.
A melancholy vibe is in the air, and romance also takes a peculiar turn.
Here the heir to Peter's melancholy abeyance is Hassan, an unaspiring analyst from Karachi.
The diary becomes a record of his unraveling, as contemplative melancholy spirals into despair.
Music from Earth, it had been decided, would only lead to feelings of melancholy.
Suddenly, this show-off piece for cello had an unexpected moment of Russian melancholy.
Orchestrating that performance while actually feeling melancholy and lonely only makes it feel worse.
He is a liminal, anachronistic presence with his Victorian hand gestures and melancholy droop.
Beneath his nest of graying hair and his Roman nose, Sorrentino's smile was melancholy.
There is a melancholy sense, as he takes off his socks, of opportunity lost.
Yet what we feel for her is less horror than a bone-deep melancholy.
The withering of Pleasantville is treated almost as a melancholy necessity in Locke's novel.
It's a sentiment couched in melancholy but also one that's never sounded so comforting.
"So damn melancholy," said Alfonso Cuarón, who wrote and directed the critically beloved film.
Sexual tensions abound, along with a mood that has been called melancholy or gloomy.
A kind of melancholy arises from this encounter, often suitable to evidently sad situations.
The sweet melancholy of this drawing is present everywhere in this deeply moving exhibition.
There's always been an undercurrent of poetic melancholy and vague regret interlacing his lyrics.
The mother said she would talk to her son about death following a melancholy movie.
Or the story that ran in the Suffolk Gazette on November 17, 1810:  Melancholy accident.
Elon Musk finally has his, even if it's more melancholy fable than rah-rah rouser.
These are our melancholy games, our sad games, the ones full of mourning and misery.
The Society is a show enamored with the absolute melancholy of its character's grave situation.
A very private man, de Gaulle was also cold, mostly humourless and prone to melancholy.
This dynamic makes watching Obama's speech, or even reading the text, a deeply melancholy experience.
That's presented as horror, but on some level, it might as well be melancholy hope.
There is a sense of melancholy and inevitability to the work that borders on hopelessness.
Wit and melancholy often shared her desk, with several projects on the go at once.
In Wuhan, a steel-gray sky hung over the melancholy day of Mr. Li's death.
It's a melancholy final visit in light of the recent death of both its subjects.
She drowns every line and every hook in melancholy, flipping major chords into something mournful.
Cutting my body eased the swell of melancholy and anxiety, like a gently deflating balloon.
Introspective and a bit melancholy, Moran draws portraits and writes poetry in her spare time.
For all the bluster and arpeggiated basslines, there's an inescapable feeling of melancholy around them.
Each year, on April 12, Tyler Stewart begins to feel a bit melancholy and uncomfortable.
Both are focused on character development and a queasy sense of melancholy, Lemire's personal specialty.
Not only did they never believe in progress, they're both intensely decadent: apologists of melancholy.
To be sure, the past is a guide, but melancholy can be a nation's undoing.
Bidart's father was, according to his son, energetic and melancholy; he drank and chased women.
We Americans now inhabit a society so numbingly false that even our melancholy is masquerade.
But what's consistent between his various approaches is his commitment to almost incalculably melancholy production.
When I knew her as an aunt, I felt her kindness, graciousness, reserve, and melancholy.
Not a gentle sort of autumnal melancholy but a deep grief and anger and loss.
Like Runciman, Goldberg has emerged from his ruminations with a melancholy outlook on the future.
Wray's work uniquely combines a documentary aesthetic with melancholy, sometimes grotesque, imagery and bizarre juxtapositions.
Rondeau, however, rendered it almost as a counterpart to the Black Pearl, meandering and melancholy.
Wesley's monologue is like the steady tapping of rain on a windowpane: melancholy and constant.
It's a happy marriage, in other words, though one that is touched with midlife melancholy.
Molly Shannon plays a supporting role, as does the melancholy of autumn in New York.
As beautiful as Smith's "I Am" sounds, it feels melancholy, with themes of quieting fear.
Lincoln in the Bardo is a beautifully empathetic book, polyphonic and funny and achingly melancholy.
Books of The Times The voice is instantly, almost violently recognizable — aloof, amused and melancholy.
Lloyd Suh's "Mandarin Duck" and France-Luce Benson's "Fall" strike a decidedly more melancholy note.
The energy is low as the sun opposes melancholy Saturn in Capricorn on July 9.
But Baskets was also a sweet, touching, and melancholy story about the power of forgiveness.
Wordplay SUNDAY PUZZLE — Some people love the holidays, others get melancholy, some people do both.
I see how this happens, but that doesn't stop it from being tinged with melancholy.
At twilight it is a mournful sound — something less than heartbreaking, something more than melancholy.
Well, maybe I did, a little at least, being susceptible to the melancholy of loss.
An end-of-days tone of Chekhovian melancholy pervades the show from its opening moments.
So in that sense, Adventure Time's growing melancholy is in keeping with its main genre.
If I'm not overwhelmed, I'm some other adjective: anxious, melancholy, or varying degrees of unsettled.
She also sang and co-wrote melancholy, rootsy songs for her own group Phantom Limb.
Her face, at rest, has a melancholy air, but a ready smile lights it up.
Blending screwball fizz and sticky melancholy, it basically invents a new genre: the noir sitcom.
I always knew there was going to be an air of melancholy to the book.
The sonic squall grows melancholy and implacable, like a memory that won't fade away. RUSSONELLO
For sure, this funny and tender film prompts cheerful smiles, but sometimes they turn melancholy.
Ivor, practiced in melancholy wisdom, accepts that he must return to England when Bennett dies.
While upbeat and bright in the first demonstration, Alexa sounds more melancholy in the second.
It's the narrator's mother, though, who embodies the real terror, melancholy and desperation of Aleppo.
In multiple places on "÷," he underscores the melancholy that comes from living a fast life.
"The Americans" has always had a built-in melancholy, partly because of the historical setting.
From this point on, the book's lovely, muted illustrations depict a world of melancholy magic.
And in GR2, the moments before the final mission are unsteady, even a little melancholy.
Sean Rowe, a Troy NY native and folk singer/songwriter who makes melancholy sound sexy.
The whole experience has a melancholy quality, trying to extract sweetness from trees, dying trees.
Talk about a song that's laden with melancholy but hides it via seemingly enthralling melody!
The film is a moody, melancholy character piece about the conflict between technology and the mind.
Ece's new book, Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy, is a look at the country's history.
Much like Picasso's own blue period, it represents a time of depression, isolation, and overall melancholy.
The stream is full of melancholy '22017s-era music and political monologues condemning Nazis and fascism.
And with one fiery guitar riff piercing the deep, dark silence, Vanity's melancholy secret was out.
Chromatics's version of "Petals" is a low slower and somewhat more melancholy than Hole's original song.
The Weeknd's "My Dear Melancholy," topped the Billboard charts when it was released in early 2018.
He was Samuel Johnson, best of critics, who nonetheless grappled with "vile melancholy" all his life.
Lazy, loquacious Pepin had the comic melancholy of Chaplin, Hrabal recalled, and a meandering storytelling style.
The Quays' films are melancholy and anachronistic, exuding the sense of a clockwork factory running down.
We consume music individually through our headphones, and experience energy, calm, melancholy and many other emotions.
Instead, he narrates their encounter with a sweetness and tentativeness that fits this gentle, melancholy book.
Interestingly enough, Jenkins premiered his first feature film, Medicine for Melancholy, at SXSW a decade ago.
And considering the tragedies that pile up in the middle, it can seem a melancholy one.
Throughout, women are depicted as passive or melancholy, contributing to the gloomy mood of the show.
In Steinberg's world, wonderment, humor, melancholy, caricature, isolation, tenderness, and satire are all rolled into one.
If this all sounds depressing, I think the melancholy is a large part of the point.
With a poster like that, it was time to turn the melancholy snowman into a meme.
The center's internal documents show staff noted Ansari's "melancholy" but did not see it as serious.
Since Laura's mutant physical gifts are so identical to Logan's, there's a melancholy to their relationship.
I wouldn't even call it a darkness—just an edge, or a melancholy, like you said.
And keep an eye on a child who can't seem to shake that sadness or melancholy.
And so we left this season awash in melancholy but buoyed by some bit of hope.
But to compare My Dear Melancholy, to House of Balloons is to superficially assess the two.
On stage there will be melancholy, but also hope, in songs like "Happiness," the album's denouement.
Whether true or not, it certainly adds a layer of melancholy to the already sentimental song.
" Philippe Claudel, one of the jurors, called the novel a masterpiece, "full of humanity, melancholy, irony.
There are days when Ms. Keeling battles a surge of arthritis or a hint of melancholy.
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.
Fosse is in the mix partly because he's deserving (read Melancholy!) and partly because he's Norwegian.
Their pumping fists and fast, swirling movements were deliberately ill-paced for the slow, melancholy music.
"White Sands," his latest collection of essays, contains his trademark blend of wit, sharpness and melancholy.
Perhaps that's why, for all its humor, it had an undercurrent of intense, even melancholy yearning.
But a more cheerful slant to the scene would belie the production's overriding sense of melancholy.
At times her music sounds like a lullaby laced with wisps of a deep azure melancholy.
Over the course of your three records, your music has become more melancholy and emotionally complex.
It's a melancholy tune about a man so helplessly in love that he can't even speak.
Schindl's trademark desperate melancholy pervades throughout though, tugging on the heartstrings in a deeply unsettling way.
The melancholy aspect of High Spirits is easy to overlook, especially on Motivator, but it's there.
But instead it was only the melancholy act of throwing a plastic line into a lake.
He does not look contemplative or melancholy when he meditates on these things, but rather furious.
Reed Morano, the director, creates an aching sense of melancholy through shadowy scenes and empty spaces.
Mr. Gondry has a toymaker's flair for animation and visual inventions with a sense of melancholy.
That melancholy feeling is what elevates the show beyond its homages, to something approaching real feeling.
It's a tale as old as time and one just as filled with melancholy and disappointment.
Priestdaddy is a funny and perverse and melancholy memoir, a terrific accomplishment from poet Patricia Lockwood.
In a tragedy by Chekhov, everyone is unhappy, bitter, disillusioned and melancholy, but they are alive.
However, this emotion is fragile and vulnerable and sometimes bears close resemblance to nostalgia and melancholy.
When gentrification makes the old neighborhood but a melancholy memory, where do the old-timers go?
Dacus veers toward folk and rock; Bridgers, grungy pop; and Baker, melancholy tunes with unconventional arrangements.
Despite "Hamlet's" length and complexity, Shakespeare ensured that the melancholy Dane remained the play's central figure.
In "Vinter," Mr. Tunbjork's trademark sense of humor persisted, but a new melancholy quality also emerged.
There's a melancholy energy to it that seemed to work well for a pre-dawn drive.
Every photograph that's ever been taken is saturated in melancholy: loss is the camera's true aperture.
What is it about melancholy Spanish songs that just break your heart into a million pieces?
The vacation that Frankie and her extended family are taking together has its own melancholy vibe.
The result is a fusion of Díaz's melancholy with the comedic precision of the Marx Brothers.
At the end, gorgeous, soft strings set the tone, lulling you into a drifting, pensive melancholy.
I like to see myself as a goofy but pleasant-ish person with a melancholy tinge.
Deserts are empty but also kind of intense; empty stadiums signify the melancholy transience of greatness.
Still, Plath, perhaps our pre-eminent artist of the melancholy, offers a rare gesture of hope.
After the 66-57 loss to the Ducks in Corvallis, it made for a melancholy scene.
But Ms. Körbes, the mother of a 17-month-old son, also senses an underlying melancholy.
There is some point of view that we share — a kind of melancholy that's always there.
Even his melancholy is sweet, a balm for a feeling that's never anything other than terrible.
His eyes grew sadder still; they rimmed with an unbearable melancholy that she had seen before.
Theater Joshua Harmon's melancholy comedy of friendship and marriage will toss its final bouquet on Sunday.
Ashworth, leading from his violin, elicited a performance that was elegant, boisterous, and melancholy by turns.
It's possible to draw a crooked line between Wright's insolent and melancholy novels and Beatty's own.
As far as I could tell, Kissin was alert to their nuances of irony and melancholy.
For this reason, a melancholy ambivalence can cling to even the most inspiring stories of leadership.
It's a work of journalism and of imagination, of history and portraiture, of indignation and melancholy.
To a lay listener, the feeling that most resonates is one of vindication, tinged with melancholy.
Listen: The bright, infectious instrumentation of Harry Nilsson's "Gotta Get Up" belies the melancholy, wistful lyrics.
Together, the looks conjured the dazzle and glamour of city life — and hinted of melancholy, too.
Most of all, though, the film never gets too melancholy, always opting for wryness over weepiness.
Even his score for "The Band's Visit," mostly drenched in melancholy, has moments of lyrical hilarity.
When I talked with the team about its experiences, a melancholy tone hovered over the conversation.
At other times, she croons verses or belts her chorus, her voice always filled with melancholy.
These songs shimmer, awash in a sort of melancholy that faintly pervades the album without becoming overt.
The royal matriarch is feeling melancholy and useless, so she visits friends in Scotland for some respite.
Ironically, the story behind the stop-motion music video for this heartbreaking song is anything but melancholy.
"I see their peculiar sensitivities, their melancholy about aging, their memories from their vibrant youth," he says.
It may not make for the stuff of glistening cinema, but it strikes an affectingly melancholy chord.
Yet the music is suffused with curious melancholy, suggesting that this young woman has a troubled psyche.
This mostly subdued and melancholy contemporary drama unfolds very late one night in a well-kept backyard.
Yet for all the outsize comedy in the writing, there is also an underlying melancholy and loneliness.
Director Jodie Foster gives the episode the glum, melancholy feeling of a tragic small-town indie movie.
The evocative and melancholy tone of "Picture Perfect Day" seemed like the ideal fit for Johnson's technique.
For the most part, generally, I think that lyrically, my songs can be relatively forlorn and melancholy.
This one looks dark, melancholy, and romantic, following a couple struggling to find happiness in 1950s Poland.
Chris Evangelista, Slashfilm: What's ultimately most surprising about Westworld season 2 is its unapologetic air of melancholy.
Its moody, melancholy story is like a melody that sneaks into your head and won't go away.
Detroiters on Comedy Central adds notes of wistful melancholy to its depiction of goofball Midwestern advertising men.
"The more I learned about Joe Gould, the more melancholy, and the uglier, it got," Lepore writes.
In this limbo, I felt a melancholy that was both hard to identify and hard to shake.
You might already be familiar with, or have seen, the young director's first film, Medicine for Melancholy.
It's gut-bustingly funny, poignant, incisive, real, melancholy, generally wonderful ... and at least 30 minutes too long.
In a melancholy ballad, Sebastian very clinically explains how Foucault's Pendulum demonstrates the rotation of the Earth.
There is genuine value to the locker room not caving into melancholy after a thoroughly discouraging performance.
Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's best-known writer, has written eloquently on the national predilection for hüzün, or melancholy.
Beneath all the melancholy, he was was doing battle with his past and looking to his future.
"Vanishing," the fifth track from her self-titled debut album, is a melancholy anthem about being ghosted.
Her creations are intoxicatingly joyful, yet imbued with the inevitable serving of melancholy that matches every high.
She's sophisticated but not mannered, and emotion, be it melancholy or delight, reads easily in her voice.
Instead, he is content to deliver extended shots and images that are achingly melancholy, and teasingly cluttered.
The music was somewhat melancholy; I'm told he was playing jazz, but it reminded me of Chopin.
After four years in retreat, Ella Yelich-O'Connor's signature catchy melancholy is back with the album Melodrama.
Her mother, Natalia, has been failing and Ms. Akerman's melancholy hangs over the scene like funeral crepe.
I experience a melancholy pause when meaning is lost, when words drift like runaways far from home.
It's either meta or melancholy that the show built around that premise is an entirely traditional sitcom.
But Hayes isn't describing canonical melancholy, the pined-for vision of mortality that poets sometimes indulge in.
Its repertory is filled with creatures of the air: melancholy swans, magical firebirds, charming bluebirds, even butterflies.
A man who takes his lover in all Her melancholy and lifts her up And unto joy.
The Elizabethans boiled it down to four types: You were choleric or sanguine or melancholy or aggressive.
Even the way she says "Claire" in that melancholy Southern twang brims with affection, disappointment and regret.
And there is an intriguingly melancholy strain in both his writing and in this mostly celebratory film.
Peel back the layers and there was no shortage of songs written about some real melancholy shit.
There's a langurous warmth his solo songwriting, a melancholy baked into the rolling snare and quavering vocals.
"Fish Out of Water" is vivid and touching, funny and wrenching, melancholy and warm, all at once.
This week's Terraform takes a melancholy, chilling look at a too-plausible scenario for future veteran rehabilitation.
Dreamy music and melancholy images accumulate, and Mr. Frost even speaks in what sounds like free verse.
In the film's most melancholy moments, you're aware that this budding friendship is built on a lie.
By the 1620s, though, the mature Valentin had taken Caravaggio's chiaroscuro and made it something more melancholy.
The novel's characteristic mood is a kind of lambent melancholy, shot through with dark, sometimes savage humor.
King-Lu draws Cookie out of his melancholy diffidence, while Cookie calms some of his friend's restlessness.
Although he could be mischievous and had a deep sense of humor, he was prone to melancholy.
Ms. Adams delivers a compassionate performance as a girl whose swagger and practicality hides a melancholy edge.
Appropriately, the record is eight songs of glassine melancholy, conjured from droning synthesizers and spiderwebbing guitar lines.
Claire and Jamie felt restrained and a little melancholy, which helped avoid tonal whiplash from Brianna's trauma.
While the pulse is steady in this piece, the mood keeps shifting — touching melancholy, anxiety, calm, hopefulness.
Romantic bonus: Aulay's hobby on the high seas is painting melancholy seascapes with no people in them.
The mood is considerably lighter in Stephanie Fleischmann's whimsical, melancholy "Sound House," which runs through March 4.
He shifts musical styles and vocal personae at whim — melancholy, playful, devout, flirtatious — yet it's all Prince.
His pristine account of the final interlude failed to convey its melancholy collapse into the Mahlerian past.
Or is the band merely laser-focused on pure pleasure in an era of smoothed-out melancholy?
It is the "exalted melancholy of our fate" that Thou moments always fade back into It moments.
It was a melancholy meal, and we cheered ourselves up by talking about actors and their tricks.
While Adam Smith considered this inevitable slowing of growth to be "dull" and "melancholy," others were optimistic.
Hamlet was less the melancholy Dane than the jester in a corrupt world bent on outlawing laughter.
But it's her guilt about a righteous but unlawful killing that lends the book such haunting melancholy.
In the larger canvases blue is a color for dramatic landscapes, illusions of depth, mystery, and melancholy.
This melancholy and comic novel works because Maurice and Charlie are such vivid company on the page.
But when it takes itself seriously, it matures into a melancholy comedy about growing up and apart.
The older one, Kayce (not their real names), was more melancholy and reserved, with gentle, blue eyes.
We yearn for that from the artists we trust with our deepest fears and most melancholy thoughts.
The other emojis are a good mix of both celebratory emojis as well as more melancholy ones.
In "Pink Lite," clanky guitar chords create a melancholy that disperses every time the chorus comes around.
"Prior to Melancholy, I had a whole album written, done, [w]hich wasn't melancholy at all because it was a different time in my life," Tesfaye told Time in his interview for the Next Generation Leaders issue, letting us read between the lines about his split from Gomez.
And Dominique Fishback's work as sex worker Darlene provides something bittersweet and melancholy in every scene she's in.
It's that melancholy tone, the legacy of the trenches, that gives Todd's polite rural mystery such uncommon depth.
It's a tossup between "King Lear" or "Midsummer Night's Dream," depending on if I'm feeling melancholy or optimistic.
Apparently, the memory wipe didn't take for silly reasons that hand-wave away his beautifully melancholy farewell moment.
Although it isn't exactly a natural choice for post-relationship feels, "One Dance" certainly has a melancholy sensibility.
A Melancholy Youth  "I was borderline depressed for years," Ali told The Hollywood Reporter in a candid interview.
The books keep any possibility of saccharine sentimentality in check by offering up healthy doses of melancholy, too.
The match is now the ghost of a title decider, haunting the fixture list like a melancholy poltergeist.
It means he's sarcastic, or melancholy, or contemplative, or thinking about man stuff, like chargrilled oysters and golf.
There's a cynicism or a pessimism inherent in this, of course, and there's also a sense of melancholy.
Boyd and Smith complicate cliché flower photographs in 0˚C, resulting in a playful but also melancholy series.
Bathed in white spotlight, they rendered the aching melancholy of Simone's tear-fIlled voice in vivid, compelling physicality.
The jokes, however, don't mask the underlying melancholy, familiar to those who've followed Hill's work over the years.
A melancholy Shakespeare (Kenneth Branagh, who also directs) has quit London and returned to Stratford to his family.
So these visions became, instead, the work of Satan: "diabolical illusions" designed to deceive those with melancholy dispositions.
The people that he saw on the streets "seemed troubled and melancholy," he wrote in his first memoir.
Hold the Dark is comparatively slow, sometimes to the point of feeling meditative and melancholy about its action.
Greer's images, like this one taken in Oak Grove, Kentucky, capture surprising moments of humor, melancholy, and poetry.
If I could pick a single word to describe the mood of the attendees, it would be melancholy.
But the initial shock kinda never wore off even if over time it turned from fear to melancholy.
"Call Out My Name," which opens My Dear Melancholy, describes those crushing events with the most convincing emotion.
The energy is low today due the sun's opposition with melancholy Saturn—watch out for blocks in communication.
The difference is that Hopper's melancholy borders on despair, while Thiebaud's seems to border on something approaching joy.
There's something comforting, infantilizing, and a bit melancholy about relinquishing all control and being moved through the space.
From such details, I'd constructed an image of impeccable chivalrousness, with a touch of the immigrant's stoic melancholy.
His voice is a pearly, androgynous tenor, a vessel for liquid melancholy that blurs words at the edges.
Thus, this seraphim held melancholy Gentle as a lull in a long conversation But heaven allows only jubilance.
It's good vibes with a powerful streak of melancholy perfectly matches the tone of Come Inside My Mind.
On one particularly melancholy day, I went to Macho Tacos, an abysmal restaurant, and ordered a Taiwanese quesadilla.
Traditional ways of life, including the traditions of Communism, seem to dissolve into a rootless, melancholy modern existence.
According to a recent study by Yale psychologists, introverts prone to melancholy make the best amateur social psychologists.
And with the drink comes a kind of melancholy, a look backward at choices fumbled and prospects botched.
Yet his long shots of the men, motionless and alone, express a melancholy and isolation that's oddly touching.
The results suggest the Persian-Urdu ghazal, as well as the melancholy, almost bitter nonsense of Edward Lear.
It is well-reasoned and thoroughly cited, but reading it, it's hard to shake a sense of melancholy.
It would be a mistake to call Robert Menasse's melancholy and satirical "The Capital" a great food novel.
But Mr. Anderson's onscreen aesthetic is all about creating narratives and moods — of yearning, of melancholy, of passion.
He was not a morbid or melancholy artist — quite the opposite, in fact: His images are passionately alive.
The plot has legs, and Locke's blues-infused idiom lends a strain of melancholy to her lyrical style.
He nonetheless cast aside his growing anguish and melancholy and showed striking prowess for an 2800-year-old.
A long shelf displays an idiosyncratic mix of objects: melancholy found photos, carvings Tognon made as a child.
Melancholy, yes, and even momentarily wrenching; yet its emotional arc bends insistently from inarticulate sadness to gentle catharsis.
But there's a crucial, melancholy difference: In the time between our non-existences, we've loved and created things.
"Marigold" is intermittently warm and tense, a more subdued and melancholy album than the ones that precede it.
The brutality in the film is ironically set to a melancholy soundtrack, a symbolic nod to the era.
The show is annotated throughout with folk ballads suffused with what might be described as a festive melancholy.
With the melancholy of Humboldt hanging over the sport, the National Hockey League is now into its playoffs.
Such tender melancholy was the essence of another, earlier musical to which "Sing Street" will inevitably be compared.
There's a stubborn streak of quiet melancholy running through this Northern Irish writer's new book of short stories.
Something of a deep melancholy and that of the sublime beauty that startles you and suspends your belief.
And throughout the night, Mr. Bey struck melancholy notes that somehow managed to be reframed as optimistic philosophy.
" The critic Kenneth Tynan had a sign on his desk that read: "Be light, stinging, insolent, and melancholy.
He had a stillness, a shyness, a slightly melancholy reserve that anchored the trust of his young viewers.
For Eric, he is more like the paternal ghost in "Hamlet," which makes Eric the melancholy Danish prince.
As he checked into his hotel, a five-star resort on the Caribbean, he was consumed by melancholy.
Luis Aguile's 1969 "Ven a Mi Casa Esta Navidad" is a song about longing that's steeped in melancholy.
"That apartment is the last part of my relationship with Katja," he said with a hint of melancholy.
One of his coldest songs is also his best, warmth seeping in around its melancholy edges ("Real Friends").
It's not clear, but the richness of the ambiguity just adds to the book's sense of sweeping melancholy.
Turns out the power fantasy it has on Earth is tempered and informed by a rather melancholy reality.
Julien Baker spent much of 2016 riding the wave that her sparse, melancholy debut Sprained Ankle had kicked up.
There will be a "little melancholy" involved when he takes his last four runs at the Olympic Sliding Centre.
And her eyes dart around suspiciously, heart-breakingly, as Gustavo Santaolalla's melancholy Spanish guitars begin tingling in the background.
RIVERA: Well, I think that that is melancholy that they root against their own country to -- for partisan purposes.
This melancholy relation toward the shape of things to come was the fuel for Le Guin's fiction and nonfiction.
Some of this melancholy is the natural byproduct of how great these actors are at playing these lovable characters.
But this is still Tame Impala, so there's still self-inflicted anxiety and melancholy permeating through club-ready tracks.
Where punk was political, Goth was miserable — the sound itself morphing from angry anarchy to one of melancholy introspection.
It is a "melancholy miracle", writes Ms Kassabova, that "odd ragged bits of this once-rich human tapestry" survive.
Find Me, Aciman's new sequel to Call Me By Your Name, is gentler and more melancholy than its predecessor.
Last night, I was consumed by a typical feeling of melancholy derived from insecurity—What if I actually suck?
Yet there is an unmistakable melancholy that creeps into the photographs as the festival progresses into the mid-1960s.
And the result is a sharp, wistful, melancholy season of television that is also a terrifically entertaining murder mystery.
Mark Parascandola's photos tell the strange, melancholy story of the erection, disintegration, and repurposing of the 1960s film sets.
But Willie Nelson's melancholy ballad "Someday"— superimposed with audio from the game's pivotal moment — brought the real emotional power.
" In the movie, Wiig plays Javier Bardem's wacky publisher; Bardem's character is a melancholy poet known only as "Him.
And it turns out to be surprisingly moving when the two of them meet in this sweetly melancholy mashup.
But that seems appropriate for a biopic about a star whose entire career was tinged with a slight melancholy.
And yet, as with Moonlight, the social commentary in Medicine for Melancholy is embedded within a sort of romance.
It's hard to imagine any film that captures the breathless melancholy of New York any better than this one.
Stevens's music is crucial to the success of the film; it is delicate, evocative, breathless and full of melancholy.
The studio is known for producing the popular TV animation series "K-On!!" and "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya".
There's a melancholy to it all that's magnified by how keenly aware the show is of what it's doing.
As a pioneer in adult entertainment, Hefner's passing was met with melancholy from industry heavyweights, entertainers, and former Playmates.
It is the most melancholy of lists, from heart disease at the top to scarlet fever at the bottom.
By the third song, "Morning Blues," he's settled in a bit, pulling his strings until they make melancholy teardrops.
They were romantic boleros, filled with melancholy and heartbreak, or traditional aguinaldos from his own rural childhood in Caguas.
But the crop of comedians making these specials aren't just using their melancholy as invisible fuel for their art.
Sally Hawkins provides the movie's melancholy emotional spine as Elisa, a mute cleaning woman in a secret government facility.
Mr. Crowe doesn't do brooding or biting, even if there can be a strain of melancholy in his work.
As the dance of life proceeded around him, by turns gay and melancholy, Powell watched, he listened, he noted.
The difference being that "The Meddler" is agreeably (unusually) optimistic about human relationships, despite the melancholy edging its comedy.
The origins of his cuisine come from his relationship with that melancholy that usually gets a hold of expats.
Thematically, unrequited love suits melancholy better than anxiety over hookup culture, which can be opted out of more easily.
But where many Homework cuts seem caught up in the euphoric moment, "Doin' It Right" offers a melancholy hopefulness.
But once we were in bed together, I felt melancholy, distant, and like I just needed to go home.
Though he's set to continue in his coaching role at Valencia, today is a melancholy day for Phil Neville.
Philosophy and history, poetry and art, loneliness and longing—the face holds all of these in a melancholy balance.
Final works have, or take on, a special tone — a melancholy triumph, or, in some cases, a furious haste.
Stranger Things boasts something of a melancholy soul, one that's most potent when these two are sharing the screen.
Arguably the most famous part of the play is its beginning, a breathtakingly melancholy 10-minute monologue on love.
But his most affecting character was a melancholy worker bee completely undone by a crank call from a colleague.
We all know that there is a possibility of really immersing ourselves in non-lethal melancholy and loving it.
I don't like to feel sad — I hate it, in fact, it's awful — but I'm drawn to melancholy music.
For a long time, I was drawn to "sad lady" icons: the scribes and bards of loneliness and melancholy.
Much of his writing revolved around intimate portraits of Israeli life laced with a sense of loss and melancholy.
It has all the wistful melancholy mixed with warmth and hope of Gilmore Girls at its very best. 3.
In another he poses as a moody teenager, gripped by a melancholy that can lead to genius or misfortune.
" Perhaps only Shteyngart could evoke a dog who "died from the melancholy of being a working-class Jewish pet.
Of those who did exhibit symptoms, eight had typical symptoms, but two had more unusual symptoms: melancholy and nausea.
These scenes are some of Seberg's most riveting, as Stewart trades Jean's low-key melancholy for high-key panic.
I've always had a thing for music that can make me cry, or at least indulge some serious melancholy.
Sitting on a tomb, the skeleton represents melancholy, traditionally considered to be brought on by the anguish of death.
You could hear Bradbury in his stories, but he was not violent at all; he had a melancholy attitude.
It begins as a romantic tragedy, unfolds as a melancholy country-house comedy, then skitters back to tragedy again.
A woman mourns in this German movie filled with narrative ellipses, visual beauty and a pervasive sense of melancholy.
As in her first EP, How Many Times Have You Driven By, there's a thread of melancholy weaved throughout.
I made a few cocktails from each, and there was no denying the melancholy truth: my Hanky lacked Panky.
Britell's melancholy score should top a strong field of nominees, with "Black Panther" and "BlacKkKlansman" among the worthy alternatives.
And Anderson is front and center throughout, often the only figure on screen, melancholy and cracking at the seams.
But when I think back on La La Land, its deep sense of melancholy is what sticks with me.
The setting for Angelis Rebels is based on Albrecht Dürer's famous engraving Melancolia, in which an angel personifies melancholy.
She has gradually progressed toward a totally, cohesively melancholy album — and here, finally, it is: 12 rosy, polished, dejected heartsongs.
"No Más Bebés" adds to the supply but in an understated, melancholy way that leaves you more sad than angry.
Mr. Geier has mundane tricks and limited physical comedy skills; his special effect is a textured voice laced with melancholy.
Like Winter's Bone, it's a heartfelt, melancholy film that's memorable more for its beautiful tone than for specific plot points.
The earliest seasons, on Britain's Channel 4, showcased possible technology-driven futures that ranged between relentlessly grim and merely melancholy.
I think the melancholy mood throughout both tracks was probably the result of feeling a bit isolated at the time.
He was, we said, "The Disco Leonard Cohen," blessed with a familiar but uniquely deep voice, all pensive and melancholy.
Medicine for Melancholy is the first feature film from Jenkins, who was only 29 at the time of its release.
Sincerity comes hard, and he falls back on ironic banter and melancholy cartoons that communicate his frustrations to the audience.
After the release of "Medicine for Melancholy," Deadline reports, Jenkins spent the next few years writing scripts and shooting commercials.
As Mia and Sebastian's romance unfolds in lush etudes and sidelong glances, it gets more melancholy and starts to ache.
For some, the melancholy nature of the song's melody and lyrics point to something much deeper than a tabloid romance.
Running nearly six minutes, the track starts out with a somewhat melancholy piano intro before realizing its full rock potential.
Awakening terror and stirring the pot of melancholy are recurring themes in many of the best paintings in this retrospective.
If Palace are a metaphorical eagle, that eagle is old, decrepit and crippled by a profound melancholy of the soul.
There's a broad, performative sort of melancholy running through this movie, and it touches on so many of the characters.
This is a gorgeous, delicately surprising piece of writing, horror — if it is — at its most melancholy and most elusive.
There were a few pretty sunsets — one in Minnesota, one in Wyoming — that spoke of a late-day solitary melancholy.
Situated on the broad plains of southern Idlib, Saraqib is a melancholy one-post-office town, much like its neighbors.
The only thing missing was the undercurrent of melancholy, known as saudade, that was a fixture of many Jobim ballads.
Turks call it "huzun," a rich, Arabic-rooted word that means melancholy and a lot more: loss, sadness, spiritual anguish.
"Before Sunset" (2004), which looks at the same characters about a decade later, is a knockout, simultaneously melancholy and hopeful.
Like a funny friend in a melancholy mood, this film has humor at its center, even during its saddest scenes.
Sung here by Marlis Petersen, it floats but also moves sleekly, an expression of agitated melancholy more than sad wallowing.
But the fast tempo emphasized the farcical aspect of a scene that Mozart also injects with a touch of melancholy.
The rocky setting with patches of snow and a sun low in the sky furthers the melancholy of the scene.
There's lush rainforest techno, organ heavy house belters, melancholy childhood reminisces, and the best Japanese disco record you've never heard.
As Bernstein takes on yet another new beginning, the only melancholy moment in our entire breakfast was about an ending.
The play on Governors Island resurrects Magritte's melancholy personal life through exchanges between the artist, his lovers, and his parents.
Meet Adam Hall, a painter from Music City, USA, whose faith-driven paintings speak more to melancholy than Mother Mary.
Gilles said self-quarantine has left her with a "low-grade melancholy" but given her a new appreciation for community.
He has a grainy, melancholy voice that can crest with a howling rasp; he's an acknowledged fan of David Gray.
Angela Arrocha presented a short shadow-puppet piece inspired by a scene in László Krasznahorkai's novel The Melancholy of Resistance.
Her unruliness connects her to the Abstract Expressionists, but, in her case, there isn't any trace of nostalgia or melancholy.
Plus, when you're a teenager, you're usually getting the first tastes of real responsibility, which is both exhilarating and melancholy.
Mr. Clay turns in a well-received performance as Lorenzo, the doting and melancholy father of Lady Gaga's character, Ally.
On Soccer LIVERPOOL, England — There was a hint of melancholy in Jürgen Klopp's voice as he talked about fairy tales.
" For uncomfortable conversations, melancholy and a constant tightening of the narrative toward very personal consequences, go with "Next of Kin.
In 1989, when East Germans' peaceful revolution toppled the wall, my melancholy pessimism of convenience was revealed as an illusion.
In his "Apple Family Plays and the Gabriels," the playwright Richard Nelson offered a melancholy hat tip to Anton Chekhov.
The cumulatively effect is incredibly melancholy, particularly in the film's final minutes, in which Wilcox finally demonstrates some strong emotion.
Standing on a balcony, he puts on headphones, then wanders among his friends, singing about his readiness to escape melancholy.
Occasionally, our Sadness Lamps overload on the egomaniacal melancholy of their owners and take up smoking as a coping mechanism.
Sometimes, Watson tells us, the chords were sonorous and melancholy, sometimes fantastic and cheery: obviously an avant-gardist at work.
Abraham Lincoln was described in contemporaneous accounts as suffering from "melancholy," which modern experts have said was likely clinical depression.
Later, when I looked up the back story, "Same Old Lang Syne" took on deeper dimensions of melancholy for me.
" The association of gothic buildings with "dark, brooding gloom" is "fundamentally misguided," he said; they are "not monuments to melancholy.
He moved audiences to tears with melancholy love songs, and his sartorial elegance was copied in nightclubs across Latin America.
When I think about it that way, this aggressive push to love summer takes on a slightly more melancholy cast.
But the lesson to take from Link's Awakening isn't simply that the series is a surprisingly good fit for melancholy.
Every move he makes turns genuine emotions into a pose, which doesn't discount the authenticity of the flickering melancholy within.
And on "Cherry," his transportive and melancholy ode to an ex, listeners get a glimpse at genuine heartache from Harry.
When my stylishly cut, artisanally waterproof mackintosh arrived, I found a little card tucked inside urging me to embrace melancholy.
Peluchonneau is an invented character, a creature conjured from crime fiction and touched with philosophical melancholy as well as ruthlessness.
But his style is warmer, relying on punch lines with corkscrew turns that have moments of vulnerability and even melancholy.
The idea returned a few years later and coalesced into something more tangible: a melancholy image of a man stranded.
Black queer life is often this constant exercise of finding jubilation and camp in the face of tragedy and melancholy.
Shots of near-empty streets and an abandoned steel mill provide a melancholy frame for behavior that seems horrifyingly incomprehensible.
While that gives the toy-like objects a melancholy edge, they have a lot of joy in their detailed shapes.
There, she is presenting a series of frescos inspired by the day of the week and the iconography of melancholy.
Afterward, the choir sang "Coventry Carol" in the cathedral's ruins, with the song's melancholy subject matter taking on new meaning.
" She was described by George Putnam Upton in his Musical Memories as, having an "inscrutable face" and "dark lustrous melancholy eyes.
It's a series both startlingly beautiful and slightly melancholy: In one piece, small bones are encased alongside what look like bulrushes.
Her melancholy outlook was fueled by her upbringing and an acute awareness, via cancer, of her own horizon line of life.
Bjorn Ulvaeus from ABBA tells Anne McElvoy, our senior editor, about the melancholy beneath the exuberant voices and his musical influences.
The heartbreak that ensues is slightly melancholy, but it's not overwhelming: The Idiot doesn't bring you in close enough for that.
In "Yu Ko" (1965), for mixed ensemble, he drew lilting sounds from brass instruments that create a sense of haunting melancholy.
Rosa Magalhaes, the creative director for the closing ceremony, said it will be a festive atmosphere with a touch of melancholy.
The movie gives them moments to triumph — but the day will still, when it's all over, end on a melancholy note.
On Thursday, the "Starboy" singer announced on he was releasing a new project called My Dear Melancholy sooner rather than later.
Masha's acid tongue and intellectual conviction give way to melancholy and malaise, even as she pursues a love affair with Vershinin.
" Flat hair indicated "a melancholy but extremely constant character," while auburn-haired people had "the highest capacity for enjoyment or suffering.
It has all the sweetness and heart of the best of Dahl's full-length novels, but it's tinged with unmistakable melancholy.
The character is impish and funny, and yet Hosoe's style lends a sense of melancholy and seriousness to Simmon's mischievous antics.
The melancholy-streaked melodicism gives way to a bluesy breakdown that most mainstream artists wouldn't dare to put amidst such tunefulness.
She also dropped another taste of its sound with the melancholy yet optimistic ballad "Bluebird," which you can listen to below.
But where Once strikes a melancholy note, Sing Street trills with electric hope, the kind embodied by its naive teenage heroes.
To watch Lee Se-dol struggle for words and apologize in the post-game press conferences compounded the sense of melancholy.
As I said, the film is about desire, and desire comes with melancholy, a sense of longing, a sense of unaccomplishment.
There's also some new music from the Stranger album to listen to while you ponder this vision of peak Sadboys melancholy.
Leaving Lyndow is concerned instead with portraying the particular melancholy of saying goodbye as we prepare to fulfill a lifelong dream.
He veers with ease between the multiplex and the art house, mixing whimsy and melancholy—not always the happiest of bedfellows.
"What I like most about this collection of songs is the shared melancholy, longing, introspective vibe," frontman Kenny Becker tells Noisey.
It's a melancholy tale about being in love with someone with an addiction, and the effect that can have on you.
Watch: The comically harrowing, rudely melancholy British show "The End of the ____ing World" started its second (and reportedly final) season.
Watch: The comically harrowing, rudely melancholy British show "The End of the ____ing World" started its second (and reportedly final) season.
Their heavy eyelids and closed smile suggest our fat cat's trademark smugness, but beneath, one can sense distance, conflict, perhaps… melancholy?
The woman who has fled her own hinterland for the ragged fringe of London discovers a dreamlike city of melancholy magic.
At the time, Summerfield was heavily influenced by John Lennon — and there is something personal and deeply melancholy about these images.
Osmin, in the original a cruel, vindictive overseer, is reimagined as a kind of philosopher-monk: artistic, melancholy, a Shylock figure.
There were times in the past where the collective sensitivity about melancholy and love and nature was extremely close to ours.
She's softly animated and a vivacious storyteller in person, a departure from the melancholy, sometimes hopelessly sad characters she usually plays.
Evans hopes that his photos evoke "a mixture of comedy and melancholy," as these "are both life-affirming emotions," he said.
It's huge guitar music that centers gentle melancholy over machismo, and also represents a slight change in direction for Ex Hex.
Even so, the occasional surprise tidal wave of melancholy hits and drenches me, taking me out of commission for its duration.
The thick melancholy in every piano chord, the unmistakable, immediately singable nature of the chorus are all part of its power.
Ocean's musical signature, in both his pained, sincere voice and the smooth, melancholy electronics he sings over, is the quiet ache.
Heavy on the pop, edged out with a little melancholy and replete with a video where the duo do the ridiculous.
The sets — based on, and sometimes magnified reproductions of, melancholy ink drawings by the artist Georg Baselitz — are black and white.
The rich black-and-white images feel both fleeting and permanent, melancholy and in the moment, the way the music is.
Gentle and melancholy, Sam mutes his demons with routine and a long-term affair with a married neighbor (Rosemarie DeWitt, fabulous).
It's so joyous and then because of the lyrics and the sample they use, it's got this wistful melancholy to it.
While seeming to cast a light on secret behavior, they reveal the yearning that exists in voyeurism, the melancholy in desire.
In his melancholy croon, he's berating his electronic instruments for not supplying inspiration: "I thought we had a deal," he moans.
Do we need another melancholy drama about the media in a landscape post-The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin's similarly joyless HBO series?
Together, they manufactured scenes and created images that reminisced on the bygone glory days and are permeated with a tangible melancholy.
These days, walking around downtown Ottawa, and likely most other places in Canada, is an experience that's both encouraging and melancholy.
These days, walking around downtown Ottawa, and likely most other places in Canada, is an experience that's both encouraging and melancholy.
A shadow of deep melancholy that seems to overcome Aldrin as he speaks to his family once the mission is over.
On Friday he releases the debut album of his orchestra, a seductive record that finds a balance between magnificence and melancholy.
Tempos were basically moderate; I kept wanting more headlong vitality in intense passages, and more luxuriance at moments of slow melancholy.
Paradoxically, he also finds his own isolation, loneliness and melancholy to be revealed in greater detail by the most profound wines.
The sense of wistful melancholy and fidelity to the protagonist's point of view suggests that it is all her future memory.
I mean, he's very bad, but his malevolence is laced with melancholy, and there is a ghastly grandeur to his ambition.
But this movie has none of the titillation or theatrical kills of a slasher picture; it's deliberate, melancholy and deceptively layered.
It's in that nonverbal place that Joaquin Phoenix's performance, along with Hildur Gudnadottir's melancholy score, wraps the film in unmanageable sorrow.
I wanted to curl up in the comfortable cosmic melancholy of my past, in the sadness of my past being passed.
But I might soon begin feeling melancholy — yet still able to laugh, think clearly, sleep at night and enjoy my life.
But just when you think the play is overdosing on whimsy, it makes a dark turn that reveals its underlying melancholy.
The song moves with a slow confidence, and just the faintest hint of blues guitar, underscoring Ms. Bryan's sweet-voiced melancholy.
James Horner's hauntingly beautiful piano lullaby score evokes just the right amount of nostalgia, the tragic cherry on this melancholy sundae.
"Diamonds" is a tribute to the lost world of the Imperial Ballet — a gleaming, grandiloquent elegance, remote but tinged with melancholy.
As I lingered on the sidewalk, a rooster's crow pierced the heat-induced lethargy of midday and cast a melancholy air.
The album's lyrics had a bittersweetness, and the music is a little melancholy, which felt correct to me as a child.
Red's Dream had a melancholy streak that's slightly unusual for Pixar, with a rainy nighttime setting and a moody jazz score.
TORONTO — Looking at the notes I took during Damien Chazelle's melancholy musical La La Land, one word leaps off the page.
A cozy melancholy, filled with humor as it examines the gnawing question of what the point of this whole thing is.
Charlie watches his younger self onscreen with an expression that is maybe supposed to be happy but comes across rather melancholy.
But the more I think about this, the more I realize that so much of what makes Rylance's performance work for me is that weird melancholy he brings to the role, and that melancholy is inseparable from the fact that Spielberg is a man who turned 71 a few months ago, directing a movie about teenagers.
On "Man and Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)," that melancholy has not only arrived, but become a permanent fixture in the relationship.
The most touching musico-dramatic moment came with "Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part," by Dowland, that consummate master of melancholy.
Yet my feeling is now tinged with melancholy that the youth of today are growing up in a far more difficult world.
The pièce de résistance of Ryggen's retrospective is undoubtedly "Ethiopia" (1935), which depicts the Italian invasion of North Africa with quiet melancholy.
Iturria's art is shot through with melancholy, nostalgia, romance, gentle humor, and an abiding sense of curiosity about what makes people tick.
Bathed in the melancholy spring sunshine, they represent the anticlimactic denouement of an end-of-season DVD that's yet to be released.
In a poem published shortly before her death, Anya Silver wrote that there were moments in which she was grateful for melancholy.
At the same time, we did get Melancholy out of this, which you could think of as Tesfaye's version of Adele's 21.
" It's a song about the seductiveness of melancholy, one that warns, "You fall in love with lonely, you end up that way.
Donnie Darko has a melancholy and desperation that's hard to roll your eyes at, even when its delivery is corny or stilted.
It's also girly coming-of-age at its morbid best, and the perfect piece of melancholy for a dark fall afternoon. Yes.
You know when it's really melancholy and grey outside and then you see that one beam of light burst through the clouds?
However, there was a hint of melancholy in the message, as she noted that "he keeps it short" when he contacts her.
But I think if you read my lyrics close enough, you see the dark and depressing and melancholy and struggles and crumminess.
Like Mr Hockney, she mixes lush visuals with pervasive melancholy, and as her subject reaches belated maturity, her prose grows increasingly nuanced.
The Weeknd is baring his soul in his latest album, My Dear Melancholy, which dropped (to every fan's delight) late Thursday evening.
A big new study suggests a different explanation for teenage melancholy—the many hours young people spend staring at their phone screens.
I know I'm not falling into a postpartum depression, but I have been feeling melancholy lately, and I'm realizing that that's okay.
Nine years before Jenkins won Best Picture, his debut feature film, 2008's Medicine for Melancholy, played in a handful of theaters.
The lyrics deviate from the more melancholy music of her past, instead focusing on carefree romance and being a woman in charge.
This final stretch of the year tries for exuberance, promising more treats than tricks, but there is always an undercurrent of melancholy.
The role couldn't exist without Bowie's status as an outsider, and the conscious combination of melancholy and defiance that fed his music.
They're pals whose honeyed vocals shroud a melancholy heart that beats in tandem with every pulse of romantic sadness you've ever experienced.
It's fundamentally melancholy, introspective music, and is easy to become utterly lost in; right now, it's a welcome escape from harsh reality.
She describes her style as "melancholy" R&B with Scandinavian influences, and she released her debut EP, "The 25th Hour," last year.
The soundtrack switches from a lone, melancholy flute to a lush orchestral arrangement in a major scale to push this impression forward.
The initial distance gives way to a melancholy and wisdom that, if we're lucky, waits for all of us as we mature.
His Maura is gentle and layered, tinged with a melancholy that's irresistible and stands out even amid an already stellar ensemble cast.
The awe or the melancholy they might find in viewing it is precisely down to the fact it is an unresolved puzzle.
There was an atmosphere of drifting melancholy about him that, as in his prose, he made almost comic by sly self-consciousness.
She blooms into a loving, forgiving woman, but she spends much of her melancholy 20s — what do psychologists call that period now?
The area can be a place of catastrophic violence, and Chance's jubilant, gospel-leaning hip-hop is flecked with streaks of melancholy.
The tone of the three-panel comics ranges from melancholy to optimistic, shedding light on the complex emotions that come with transitioning.
I was too young to understand alternative music or counterculture, but was just old enough to enjoy melancholy for its own sake.
His extravagant acting certainly also sometimes infused his singing: There were a few melodramatic swoops in "Una furtive lagrima," Nemorino's melancholy monologue.
But their albums can hurtle from the old-world melancholy of a squeezebox to the furious strumming of guitars mixed with horns.
Sung mostly in French, it is melancholy, graceful, and inventive, gliding past and lingering for long enough to creep the listener out.
As the child grows into an adolescent, her gaze loses some of its melancholy, turning into the daring look only teenagers have.
We thought that maybe it should be a ballad so that you deliver this sort of rueful lyric with a melancholy music.
Oddballs, misfits, sad sacks, melancholy, messed-up families — by now we know, or think we know, exactly what we're going to get.
Locke writes in a blues-infused idiom that lends a strain of melancholy and a sense of loss to her lyrical style.
This melancholy is captured in the artist Alex Da Corte's new film "Slow Graffiti," which premiered at Secession in Vienna this summer.
"Before I became secure as a writer, it was a long, unbroken period of melancholy," he told The New Yorker in 1994.
It's that melancholy intimacy that makes "The Americans" more than the sum of its wigs, stabbings and spot- on period-music choices.
Mr. Loibner's arrangement artfully exploits the eerie melancholy of this hand-cranked string instrument, with its metallic snarl and bagpipe-like drone.
When it is finally played up by the flute, it seems to lift up, its inherent melancholy sublimated into a spiritual dimension.
Disappointment and sadness and melancholy can feel just as powerful as love — and when the music swells, they can take over, too.
Paul Muldoon and Jean Hanff Korelitz have transformed a story of holiday cheer and marital melancholy into an immersive, sherry-driven event.
The story is sweet but deeply melancholy, and Freeman's illustrations, which combine saturated colors with a muscular line, have a beguiling gravity.
And now, another daguerreotype of a ruined building embodies the melancholy of archival photography: Notre-Dame cathedral, whose Gothic expanses appear imperishable.
" Told that the day's special at an uptown restaurant is squid ink fettuccine, he says approvingly, "That is the most melancholy pasta.
And at least Ellen Burstyn, in trousers as the melancholy Jaques, manages to find effective compromises in that character's best known speeches.
Its director, Barry Jenkins, has only directed one other feature film, Medicine for Melancholy, which had a staggeringly low budget of $15,000.
Melancholy trails Bernard like Pig-Pen's dirt-cloud, but Jeffrey Wright has always kept the character's true feelings close to the vest.
The beauty of the West Virginia landscapes captured by Ms. Sheldon's camera puts the struggles of the movie's subjects into melancholy relief.
The song is spare and meditative, with nods to Randy Newman's taut melancholy, LCD Soundsystem's middle-age weariness and Haim's sweet urgency.
Occasionally a note of wistfulness or melancholy slips into his monologues, but real regret and deep introspection are alien to his character.
" At the same time, Teo wrote, her soaring self-confidence is frequently undercut by descriptions of her isolation, melancholy and "world weariness.
Here, as in much of the poetry of Danez Smith, the melancholy bone of the poem is wrapped in sly, limber humor.
For all of its cringe-comedy and corporate intrigue, what's most surprising about "Dundee" is the melancholy tone, cued by Logan's mood.
But even these scores have their strengths, with Waves in particular capturing the film's underlying melancholy arguably better than the movie itself.
The actors' aged faces and bodies — combined with the sense of time and opportunities lost — injects melancholy into even the goofiest moments.
Just because she doesn't have a picturesque version of melancholy doesn't make it any less real or any less deserving of compassion.
That book was a witty and melancholy tour de force about reading and love and the pleasures of travel as against tourism.
Played on traditional Indochinese instruments, familiar anthems like "La Marseillaise" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" are rendered weird and melancholy.
Buried in layers of ink were twisting faces and organs, warm yellows to melancholy blues and angry reds — morphing shapes within shapes.
A woman in her sixties praised "Julieta," his melancholy new film, which is about a mother whose teen-age daughter abandons her.
The drums propel this track foward, while Williams, whose voice could easily become melancholy, strikes an upbeat note thanks to her accompaniment.
Playing with memory and lovely melancholy images, Mr. Boyle orchestrates an "orgy of nostalgia," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The New York Times.
After teasing on his official Instagram account Wednesday that new music might be coming, the singer dropped "My Dear Melancholy" early Friday.
It is performed by the ensemble toward the end of "Anything Can Happen in the Theater," and its ineffable melancholy is sublime.
Despite centuries of artists and writers using blue to represent melancholy, young people don't associate blue with sadness anymore, Ms. Eiseman said.
Though Tesfaye famously stays silent about his relationships in interviews, he dropped My Dear Melancholy just months after his split from Gomez.
A lot of the comedy comes right from the neediness in Mr. Farrell's beady eyes and from his machinelike interpretation of melancholy.
The show reveals a marked tension between beauty and melancholy, making it difficult at times to keep his biography and work separate.
But Ms. Ferrell said "Old Borego" has the touch of melancholy that makes the best Christmas songs — and it's stuck with her.
It's dimly lit, as melancholy and smokey as you'd expect from a song with Ruth Radelet's vocals and Johnny Jewel's synth hooks.
Because we know the terrible fate awaiting Mike — he ultimately dies on Breaking Bad — these choices have a melancholy weight to them.
The space that he creates here in this music is both calm and melancholy, like Harold Budd or David Sylvian's ambient pieces.
The dust settles on the floorboards of Broadway's Cort Theatre for only a brief, melancholy moment before joyous dancing kicks up the particles.
As it turns out, Kulig was inspired by other on-screen legends, whom she looked to for lessons in seduction, sass, and melancholy.
I've been a fan of your work for a long time, but what drew me to the band was your more melancholy songs.
The deep well of historical and familial sacrifice and loss that can splash melancholy across even the most joyous of present-day moments.
The press release for 1076 Madison describes Talmadge's paintings as "a particular brand of rarified melancholy," but that description is a bit overblown.
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins also started with a black-and-white, low-budget feature — Medicine for Melancholy — just a year before Chazelle did.
But Matthias has been penning goodbyes for almost two decades now, and continues writing with all of his old melancholy, energy, and humor.
Her melancholy may be a little hard to appreciate, given her cushy pads and glamorous surroundings in nearly every minute of this film.
An underlying sense of melancholy wafts through Ms. Skarpetowska's loosely autobiographical piece, set to a folk score by Ljova ( Lev Zhurbin), performed live.
In the American pavilion melancholy blackish-purple works by Mark Bradford, an African-American artist, refer obliquely to slavery and the migration crisis.
Moonlight is an emotional, evocative piece, and it has little in common with Jenkins' other, more prosaic film, 2008's Medicine For Melancholy.
"I waited till I saw the sun / I don't know why I didn't come," sang a woman, in a voice tinged with melancholy.
The 28-year-old "Starboy" singer announced on Thursday he'll be releasing a new project called My Dear Melancholy sooner rather than later.
These scholars surmised that Lincoln's widely reported "melancholy" had all the signs of the three major stages of depression: fear, engagement and transcendence.
It's seemed that for every Donald Trump action, there is an equal, opposite, and wistfully melancholy reminder of how things used to be.
" This keen sense of mystery became tinged with melancholy as getting older "you're still trying to capture that sense but it gets harder.
"You haven't seen her do what I've seen her do," he replies, cut to a very melancholy Melisandre standing alone in her chambers.
It offers little entertainment for many viewers, but for anyone who can recognize this kind of melancholy, it might be a dark catharsis.
Come Inside My Mind is weighted down by an inevitable sense of melancholy, because anyone who followed Williams knows how this story ended.
And though some of this melancholy could be due to cultural factors that affect everyone to an extent, it's hit the youngest hardest.
The police soon went to Gregory's house to arrest Barriss, a tall and disconcertingly gaunt man with patchy facial hair and melancholy eyes.
War for the Planet of the Apes is certainly the most melancholy tentpole since…well, since Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Sweet, lovely Venus doesn't always enjoy cold, melancholy Saturn, but when they work well together, there's an energy of support in the air.
However, there's also a melancholy edge to it, like the looming prospect of the weekend ending or the comedown hitting you too soon.
Hamlet, the story of melancholy Danish prince and his doubting quest to avenge a murdered father, captured audiences across the world, said Dromgoole.
The moon in Libra inspires you to get organized today, but watch out for a grumpy energy as the sun opposes melancholy Saturn.
I thought Never Forever was really lovely, more melancholy than the rest of your work—which isn't known for being too jolly itself.
Saturn's energy isn't one we would call flirty or happy-go-lucky—it's the planet of melancholy—but the atmosphere will be creative.
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" ended up Sinatrafied, its one remaining drop of melancholy mopped up by an anodyne stand-in lyric.
The melancholy look on Pierre's face, when Andrei confesses his love for Natasha, suggests that he's secretly in love with the girl himself.
The two imbue the comic with a stunning thoughtfulness and humanity that makes this melancholy swerve work for the modern Stone Age family.
All of the paintings explore the feeling of life here in Southern California, exuding beauty on the surface with hints of melancholy underneath.
With a mysterious depth, both visual and narrational, like Lynchian gestures without the heavy-handed surrealism, his photographs offer allegory, metaphor, and melancholy.
When it focuses on being a tart, melancholy, frequently dirty treatise on indignity, reconciliation and clashing expectations, "Back to Life" works quite well.
His arrival does not, however, dispel the melancholy that pervades this deeply compassionate elegy on the confounding sorrows of day-to-day existence.
If you're caught up on Mr. Robot, there's an inescapable melancholy in watching Elliot fumble on a would-be first date with Shayla.
"It's as light and joyous as a show about a pair of melancholy British losers can be," Mike Hale wrote in The Times.
While "Doctor Foster" has the slightly cold, melancholy vibe typical of British dramas set in the present, it also possesses a fine lunacy.
The film's early optimism eventually slides into melancholy — the promise of a prosperous China fades alongside the possibilities once entertained by its characters.
A crumbling, melancholy monument to China's imperial grandeur, so imposing that it inspired the stubborn myth that it is visible from the moon.
The way he portrays their relationship, both in old age and the afterlife, begins modestly and evolves into a lovely and melancholy playlet.
One of my English friends is probably right when he says with melancholy that Brexit is the real end of the British Empire.
"Kidding": Jim Carrey is back, in this weird, whimsical, melancholy series about a children's TV star in the throes of an existential crisis.
Funny, faintly melancholy, and fantastically intelligent, the work somewhat recalls the philosophical cartooning of Saul Steinberg, but vigorously brushed at a commanding scale.
Those who know Fukase's work will find his trademark melancholy in "Hibi," where his own ghostly presence is strongly felt — but rarely seen.
We're just going to dwindle away with an impotent, sexless whisper, swirl quietly down the plughole of non-procreation with a melancholy gurgle.
This melancholy little charmer was one of the big hits of the Sundance Film Festival, and the trailer offers a glimpse into why.
With their hollow eyes, his characters appear harrowed and gaunt, and with his use of muddy colors, he paints his landscapes equally melancholy.
The track features vocals from Spanish musician La Bien Querida, who pairs melancholy with romantic yearning and pop relatability in her understated performance.
The melancholy "Dream English Kid" may not have the outward-facing joy of "Fiorucci," nor the exacting wit of his cabinet of curiosities.
To take the photos, the two travelled throughout Japan, dwelling in both the magic and melancholy of the circumstances that brought them together.
Their rivalry is recreated in this film, with Shia LaBeouf playing the hotheaded Mr. McEnroe and Sverrir Gudnason playing the melancholy Mr. Borg.
There may be no clear path forward, but amid the melancholy Chariandy suggests it may be possible to endure, and even to thrive.
For the trans woman writer and theorist Susan Stryker, any identification with the Monster was wrought from Gothic intensities of horror and melancholy.
Her final scene, with Mimì on her deathbed surrounded by friends, was all the more poignant because she showed no trace of melancholy.
Another part — the charming, melancholy core of the film — examines his relationship with Sybil Rosen (Alia Shawkat), an actress and theater artist. (Ms.
But there is quiet nobility to the duets near the melancholy end for the two leading ladies, who sing with sensitivity and grace.
Perishable Tactics is a sombre, melancholy affair, that drifts and dips, the musical equivalent of headlights peeking in and out of thick fog.
The story could be summed up as a journey to get Aerosmith tickets, or a melancholy take on the fear of growing up.
It is a romantic novel, suffused with melancholy and poetic longing and sometimes interrupted by impulsive actions with a fairly high #MeToo quotient.
The LP closes with "Yefikir Engurguro," a wistful original played alone on the piano, chords lapping into one another, making a melancholy tide.
Kenneth Lonergan's 2001 play, set in the foyer of an apartment building, is a melancholy comedy of divided loyalties and overlapping moral predicaments.
As another summer comes to an unofficial close, here are three passages that capture the warmth and melancholy of this time of year.
The banter is sharp as a knife, Stars Hollow exudes warmth, and everything is gently touched with just the right amount of melancholy.
Melancholy, beautiful, and undeniably gripping, this is the movie to watch if you want to be completely consumed for an evening (or two).
When I first interviewed her and saw her perform back then, she wondered offstage whether her act was too melancholy to be entertaining.
Ms. Dvorovenko is somewhat unrecognizable in the role: Sallow and drawn, her usually glittering sapphire eyes disappear into the camera with piercing melancholy.
In "Tales of Hopper" (23), Lavagnino brings those scenes to life and puts their melancholy in motion to original music by Martin Bresnick.
Underneath the betting, the home-county boosterism and the evening-gown weight lifting, a note of melancholy hums faintly in the background here.
It's the glittering homeland at the end of a very long rainbow that infuses this narrative with a sense of exile and melancholy.
Tommaso (Tommaso Cestrone), a sturdy, handsome man with melancholy blue eyes, is remembered as "the angel of Carditello" (the name of the palazzo).
It's a memory play told in monologue, an account of a melancholy period in the title character's life, many years in the past.
" No one recognized me, although when one lady commented on the resemblance, I replied, "No, Melania is much younger and more wistfully melancholy.
The song invites a delicious, almost luxuriant self-pity and melancholy that envelops you like a steaming tub filled with expensive bath oils.
It serves Mr. Pettibon well, deflecting attention from evidence, in his work and in person, of what seems an essentially inward, melancholy character.
"Harmony Hall", the first song to combine folk rock and Italo House, had the swooping, nostalgic, privileged melancholy of a Donna Tartt novel.
Cander writes that the Blüthner in "The Weight of a Piano" always "sounded melancholy," even when the music was supposed to be upbeat.
As such, "Two Hearts" is an Italo disco-meets-Teutonic banger and "Persephone Dreams" is melancholy Vangelis with delicious dashes of steel drum.
The patina of hammered metal, the tin tiles that Saar has used for years, adds an aura of melancholy pathos to these sculptures.
Funny, cleverly structured and a little melancholy, the series turns out to be a surprisingly poignant meditation on repressed trauma and self-actualization.
"Every time we wrote something a little sad and melancholy, that would be the only thing that really resonated with me," he said.
But the most noticeable transition for me was when the concentrated pockets of sadness turned into longer, more drawn-out bouts of melancholy.
Combined with a wistfully melancholy coming-of-age story and a tricky artificial intelligence puzzle, it makes for a gem of a novel.
Turns out it just looks a bit different today, instead dripping through the melancholy of Lil Peep, Lil Uzi Vert and Nothing,Nowhere.
Emphasizing 40's ability to make almost anything into a beat, Aubrey Graham decides to drake all over this five-minute melancholy beat.
Given the album's bright cheer, the melancholy songs fizzle; the wavery piano chords on "My Mistake" try to brood and instead sound tentative.
If you really want to follow the loop, there's "Betsy on the Roof" which started on Live Recordings with a microphone's white noise and Holter's compressed voice buried in the buzz; on ...Wilderness it became a howling lament fit for an gilded, empty ballroom; here, it's hushed and melancholy, sung through a jilted character who's moved passed agony and into some melancholy reminiscence.
Technically, post-coital dysphoria can include any feelings of melancholy or depression, anxiety, agitation, or aggression after sex — but it's usually characterized by tearfulness.
Moreover, a show like this one -- which relies heavily on its warm, melancholy atmosphere -- can easily alienate viewers with one or two serious missteps.
As performed by the Theorist, a producer who does a lot of these piano covers, "XO Tour Llif3" becomes nothing less than pure melancholy.
So yeah, I've certainly made songs I thought were uplifting and other people gravitated to the more melancholy aspects of it, and vice versa.
Which is great, because "Go Flex" is a pretty addictive track that uses that college freshman melancholy and pushes it to unexpectedly cool places.
The Four Humours were elements that made up the body—phlegmatic, choleric, melancholy, and sanguine—and dealt with different aspects of the human condition.
Bit by bit, these people had to build new lives and forge new connections, in a sometimes melancholy, sometimes inspiring study of human resilience.
It's possible that Jay knows Del Rey through her work alongside A$AP Rocky, or maybe he's just a fan of her melancholy vibe.
This being Mr. Ashley, the novel is something closer to prose poetry, quotidian in its language but lyrical, pensive and melancholy in its feel.
The Weeknd released his new six-song EP, Dear Melancholy, on Spotify on Thursday night, and BOY, do we have a lot to unpack.
Her photographs are beautiful, but the sense of melancholy that oftentimes accompanies them corresponds to the real-life emotions Collins felt while taking them.
Occasionally I'll watch a porn featuring two beautiful people having sex and forget that it's porn, and then I'll remember again and feel melancholy.
Who would have thought that a woman who has made a career on melancholy songs would be the one giving us hope through music?
I think one of the joys of the way the film mixes comedy and melancholy is that Emily feels like an actual, real person.
On House of Balloons, Weeknd was a one-person storm, but on My Dear Melancholy,, he is virtually powerless, his fate tied to another's.
Now, he's transitioned fully into pop, in the House of Balloons-esque despair of My Dear Melancholy, and in the crossover success of Starboy.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has since waned in popularity, nearly non-existent in comparison to the boom of its debut, ten years ago.
From the villainous Hans Gruber in Die Hard to the melancholy Marvin in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Rickman's characters were always pitch perfect.
Towards the end of Bonnard's life, his paintings became more disorganized, chaotic, and abstract, showing signs of melancholy after the loss of his wife.
Overtly echoing the first film, it's a bag of fun, but also a melancholy meditation on age, on relationships, on manhood, and it hurts.
Eventually, I fell into a cycle of keeping an athpera fast—skipping the melancholy pre-dawn breakfast—to avoid having to wake up alone.
If anything, The BFG is melancholy about the compromises of adulthood, and the difficulty of choosing one life path at the expense of others.
" White noted that anyone expecting a mainstream Ben Stiller movie—a "Meet the Parents"—will be surprised: "This will be less antic, more melancholy.
Melancholy is almost obligatory for young male poets; in other respects, Neruda spurned the genteel conventions still prevailing in love poetry of the time.
The poems, set in an idealised English countryside and imbued with a yearning melancholy, struck a chord not just in England but in America.
But the important movement of the plot mostly happens inside the characters, and there's a thoroughly Allen-ish melancholy hanging under the whole process.
Summoning the wit of Flannery O'Connor and the sweet melancholy of John Prine, she elegantly connects her characters' wild actions to their roiling emotions.
But "Melancholy Mood," which was the B-side of Sinatra's debut single with Harry James and his Orchestra in 206, executes the gesture convincingly.
Keaton's smooth brow and melancholy deadpan, customarily shadowed by a porkpie hat, express an ingenious, innocent determination to surmount whatever obstacles the universe imposes.
Was it a thoughtful, melancholy look at a bunch of people preparing to die in a battle with the Night King and his army?
The melancholy beauty of that story informs the Russian choreographer Tatiana Baganova's "Sepia," a sensual work washed in golden hues and doused in sand.
That section of the dance, performed by women, is filled with images of melancholy, bodies crumpling to the ground, cheeks resting despondently on hands.
CINCINNATI — In 2011, Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks took her twin daughters to a Taylor Swift concert, and it churned up some melancholy.
In between the nuptials I spent my time ambling around the recovering steel town, soaking in feelings of nostalgia and The National-style melancholy.
The languid descending coos in "Dream of the Canyon Wren," which Mr. Adams has also arranged for string quartet, were rendered with ineffable melancholy.
A lyrical writer with a great feel for suspense, Howarth strained to understand Baalsrud — not just his astounding resilience but also his essential melancholy.
The short film comprises 16 minutes of GTA V footage, with a voiceover from the melancholy Martin who's being ghosted by his three friends.
There's the vivid melancholy of everyone connected to Lilly talking to the counselor about her, combined with the eerie voyeurism of Veronica listening in.
This is a series defined by its mood, by a sort of goofy hopeful heroism forcefully welded onto a deep vein of surreal melancholy.
There's melancholy and cautious optimism in "You're Not Here" and "Letter from the Lost Days," and both perfectly complement the game's themes and atmosphere.
Like black metal progenitors Celtic Frost and Bathory before them, Slaegt's music uses shadowy spiritual overtones to convey a sense of melancholy and darkness.
Even though the game lays out the stakes of Link being trapped there, waking the Wind Fish carries a mix of horror and melancholy.
The film never comes up with a mission statement or a message that might tie together its wandering scenes, or explain its vague melancholy.
An exquisite melancholy has settled upon the galleries of Marcel Breuer's inverted ziggurat on Madison Avenue: an air of dashed aspirations, commitment and farewell.
Assertiveness, not her usual melancholy introspection, marks "Comeback Kid," which previews Sharon Van Etten's first album since 2014, "Remind Me Tomorrow," scheduled for January.
Both situations call for thorough self-questioning and the mournful recognition that joy is fleeting, along with flashes of anger, estrangement, guilt and melancholy.
Sam Cooke set a different tone with 1964's "A Change Is Gonna Come," a track that expressed less anger and more melancholy hopefulness.
Before we left the room, he said, "I hope I wasn't too melancholy or sad," and showed me a picture on his phone: Cora.
The melancholy tone that distinguishes the Rutledge series is a reminder that war never ends for the families and friends of lost loved ones.
An intense air of melancholy suffuses the book as Valero-O'Connell pairs love with loss — a nudging reminder that one comes with the other.
As they do, Rifkind draws skillfully from multiple sources, expanding her sympathies to include them all — wives and lovers, too — in her melancholy narrative.
A slow, dreamlike sequence sees them rolling across the floor, rising onto an elbow, then sinking again, as if falling into the melancholy melody.
These occasionally strike a melancholy note, as we glimpse cheery faces and festive family photographs that attest to the lives so cruelly cut short.
The Northern Irishman acknowledged a spell of melancholy after that closing 26, binge-watching TV before his wife got him out of the house.
"We haven't had a lot of new drugs, and if we were having this conversation a year ago, I'd be more melancholy," he says.

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