How to Use melancholia in a Sentence

melancholia

noun

• For two and a half verses, Chance bathes in his melancholia.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• Such moods as alienation and melancholia have no place in his films.
  — David Denby, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
• Think of your current melancholia as akin to sweat equity.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2019
• Brett Favre had taken over as the quarterback in 1991 and allowed the Packers to escape from their post-Lombardi melancholia.
  — Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
• En route to his nervous breakdown in 1969, a sublime melancholia crept into his playing.
  — Philip Montoro, Chicago Reader, 22 Aug. 2017
• Any aggression Madonna feels about her divorce—on this album, at least—is flushed out by melancholia.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 30 Nov. 2018
• For the vanquished, an inevitable melancholia is tinged with optimism.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 3 June 2021
• For those of us who have loved Mann's incredible mix of melancholia and pop mastery for decades, somehow that sentiment is not the least bit surprising.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• In totality, Blue Rev is the work of a band that’s moved beyond somewhat standard beachy-dream melancholia to touting heaps of creative currency and more to say.
  — Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 5 Oct. 2022
• Lana Del Rey doesn’t toy with signs—of American glamour and its decay, of female melancholia and racial desire—so much as consecrate them.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
• Conan Doyle’s coup de maître, as Watson might say, is to make his hero a flawed man, prone to deep melancholia, liable to escape into cocaine- or opium-induced oblivion.
  — Simon Callow, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• While there’s always been an undercurrent of melancholia in Bridges’ music, it’s never been stronger than on Gold-Diggers Sound.
  — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 23 July 2021
• Flashes of his signature style still come through the piece: a light melancholia in the cadence of his narration, razor-sharp attention to the details of things like belt buckles and beer bellies.
  — Vulture, 14 Apr. 2022
• The exhibition sets out to trace a modern repurposing of melancholia by Black artists.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2022
• The melancholia that courses through this movie is of a piece with its minimalism, notable in the concision of the individual scenes and the overall running time.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• No, the melancholia that gripped Democrats was rooted in something deeper than wins and losses or control of a particular branch of government.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• Ray Charles is a very good example of an oxymoron by putting groovy textures and spiritual aspect, but also, joy and melancholia.
  — Lily Moayeri, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2022
• And finally, there is the film’s tone, a kind of low-key melancholia that is the opposite of a big, buzzy crime movie and its accompanying social-media traction that streaming services crave.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
• This familiar premise leads to a twist: Instead of adrenaline rush suspense scenes, this plot languishes in mundane melancholia.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• Yet despite the patriotic trappings, there is a foreboding, a melancholia from the first words spoken by the narrator (later lawyer), a steady, genuine Brian Levi.
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2017
• The limited series is atmospheric, evoking the melancholia of the not-quite-adult space in which Rooney’s characters usually exist.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
• There’s some nostalgia and melancholia in Connecticut, naturally, over what might have been.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 9 Sep. 2022
• Basically, a Lars Kepler thriller stops only to fixate on Joona’s eyes, which distractingly transfix any number of characters who take in this tall hunk of melancholia.
  — Ken Tucker, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• Seasonally appropriate melancholia from A Charlie Brown Christmas, which is still the greatest animated salute to the spirit of the season.
  — Maura Johnston, Esquire, 24 Nov. 2016
• Psychotic melancholia sounds horrifying, like a German band that plays an obscure subgenre of death metal.
  — Yusef Roach, Los Angeles Magazine, 31 May 2018
• Elegant melancholia isn’t enough for the National anymore.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• What The Farewell isolates so incisively is a sense of cultural melancholia specific to the immigrant experience, a mourning for something lost in the process of existing between worlds.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2020
• Ronan’s performance grows steadily more luminous as Charlotte’s melancholia recedes and her natural vigor and lust for life reemerge.
  — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• Lana Del Rey is perhaps most well-known as a purveyor of melancholia, singing songs of dysfunctional love and romanticized drug use and nostalgic references to Americana.
  — Alexandra Holterman, Billboard, 21 July 2017
• Racial melancholia also turns our attention to how having a proximity to whiteness has levied the unrecognizability of Asian pain and injury.
  — Tim Chan, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2021

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