All 7 Uses
melancholy
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Tender is the Night
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- This feeling was surcharged by listening to the sad tunes of the orchestra, reminiscent of the melancholy music played for acrobats in vaudeville.†
Chpt 1.3 *melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- He went back into his house and Nicole saw that one of his most characteristic moods was upon him, the excitement that swept everyone up into it and was inevitably followed by his own form of melancholy, which he never displayed but at which she guessed.†
Chpt 1.6
- It was a melancholy neighborhood.†
Chpt 1.20
- In November the waves grew black and dashed over the sea wall onto the shore road—such summer life as had survived disappeared and the beaches were melancholy and desolate under the mistral and rain.†
Chpt 2.12
- The gathering, which of course did not include residents at the Eglantine or the Beeches, was conventional enough at first sight, but over it brooded always a heavy melancholy.†
Chpt 2.15
- She was working on a stage which represented a guard-room for Christian prisoners, and presently they went there and watched Nicotera, one of many hopeful Valentinos, strut and pose before a dozen female "captives," their eyes melancholy and startling with mascara.†
Chpt 2.20
- Two men were chanting in an Eastern language or dialect full of k's and l's—he leaned out but he could not see them; there was obviously a religious significance in the sounds, and tired and emotionless he let them pray for him too, but what for, save that he should not lose himself in his increasing melancholy, he did not know.†
Chpt 3.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)