All 4 Uses
melancholy
in
All the Bright Places, by Niven
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- I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns.†
p. 76.7melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- I think of the Virginia Woolf lines, the ones from The Waves: "Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic.†
p. 90.3
- And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic.†
p. 90.4
- The writer Natalia Ginzburg remembered him after his death: "It seemed to us that his sadness was that of a boy, the voluptuous heedless melancholy of a boy who has still not come down to earth, and moves in the arid, solitary world of dreams."†
p. 378.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)