All 5 Uses
melancholy
in
Fahrenheit 451
(Edited)
- And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff-adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of nameless stuff, and strolled out the door.
p. 13.8melancholy = sadness
- The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour....
p. 53.5melancholy = thoughtfully sad
- Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.
p. 58.6 *melancholy = sadness
- Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.
p. 59.2melancholy = sad thoughts
- But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,p. 96.7melancholy = sad
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)