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melancholy
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The Lords of Discipline
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- But to me, Charleston is a dark city, a melancholy city, whose severe covenants and secrets are as powerful and beguiling as its elegance, whose demons dance their alley dances and compose their malign hymns to the side of the moon I cannot see.†
Chpt Prol.melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- The frozen, unconvincing smile is an expression of almost incomprehensible melancholy.†
Chpt Prol. *
- I had always been popular with the fifth column of my peers, those individuals who were princely in their solitude, lords of their own unpraised melancholy.†
Chpt 1.4
- The garden resonated with melancholy and shame, with betrayal and sin.†
Chpt 1.13
- In the shimmering greenhouse of the alcove, we sweated and waited in melancholy silence for the entrance of the full cadre.†
Chpt 2.16
- In the melancholy city within, the boulevards were wide and laid out in symmetrical grids, the bells of cathedrals rang on time, the cops never smiled, and the jails overflowed with silent, abused separatists.†
Chpt 2.17
- Some of us cried to hear him; some of us cried when we saw him lift his hands in that melancholy inconsolable gesture of gratitude for the impure, overdue mercy of the formerly merciless.†
Chpt 2.17
- I examined that grim, melancholy look.†
Chpt 2.19
- It had been another long, losing season for the varsity, and most of the team ate their steaks quickly and escaped the melancholy accusatory eyes of our coach.†
Chpt 2.21
- But they accepted my melancholy as some distorted mirror image of my overwrought flights of euphoria.†
Chpt 3.22
- Nothing bored me more than flaccid, humorless academicians punishing their students with limpid melancholy lectures while they polished up their deadly little monographs on vital subjects like "The Nose Hair of Grendel."†
Chpt 3.27
- He had the proud, melancholy face one associated with Confederate veterans and looked old enough to have fired on Fort Sumter.†
Chpt 4.32
- As he spoke, his face clouded over with a painful melancholy, as though he were uttering a truth that froze the very roots of his soul.†
Chpt 4.34
- The room looked as if it had been built by a melancholy carpenter whose specialty was coffins.†
Chpt 4.41
- Mark copied the names of the new inductees in 1967 on a sheet of paper but the troubled, deeply melancholy expression remained on his face.†
Chpt 4.45
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)