All 8 Uses of
melancholy
in
Catch-22
- Yossarian did feel almost sick enough to go back into the hospital, and he felt even sicker three combat missions later when Doc Daneeka still shook his melancholy head and refused to ground him.†
Chpt 3
- Milo let out a long, melancholy wail and staggered back, beads of perspiration popping out suddenly all over his ashen face.†
Chpt 7 *
- With sick call suspended and the door to the medical tent nailed shut, Doc Daneeka spent the intervals between rain perched on a high stool, wordlessly absorbing the bleak outbreak of fear with a sorrowing neutrality, roosting like a melancholy buzzard below the ominous, hand-lettered sign tacked up on the closed door of the medical tent by Captain Black as a joke and left hanging there by Doc Daneeka because it was no joke.†
Chpt 10
- He sat mutely in a ponderous, stultifying melancholy, waiting expectantly for Corporal Whitcomb to walk back in.†
Chpt 20
- 'I'm sorry, sir,' he said regretfully in a low, courteous, melancholy voice.†
Chpt 25
- He paused, his sulking ire turning to melancholy, and frowned irritably as though it were all Yossarian's fault.†
Chpt 27
- The handwriting throughout was shaky and hurried, but the style resembled her husband's and the melancholy, self-pitying tone was familiar, although more dreary than usual.†
Chpt 31
- Yossarian said no. Major Danby agreed with a melancholy nod, lowering his eyes again, and there was no hope at all for either of them until footsteps exploded in the corridor suddenly and the chaplain, shouting at the top of his voice, came bursting into the room with the electrifying news about Orr, so overcome with hilarious excitement that he was almost incoherent for a minute or two.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad