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Melancholy in sentence

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He enjoys setting up farcial situations and then underlining the laughs with either seriousness or a sense of melancholy.
The music ranks as among the most atmospheric in anime, the songs are topnotch and range from breathless rockers to melancholy ballads.
Thus, despite the fact that film's story is depressing in the extreme, the persistent mood of the film is a satisfying mixture of melancholy, amusement, and cheerfulness.
Oh, and don't forget to have a lonely, melancholy piano constantly playing behind the monologue.
As an aside, the soundtrack of mainly Canadian musical stars of the 70's adds a melancholy, nostalgic feel to the experience.
'A Wintery Tale' indeed, is intense and melancholy with everlasting tight shots that never puts the viewer at ease.
While the film is by and large a film whose reputation is built on it's wacky nature, there are some genuine scenes of beauty, often even melancholy, but even the most romantic moment is off-set by a truly eye-popping follow-up.
This melancholy entry in the Peanuts quadrilogy stands out among the four, simply because of the difference in tone from the other entries.
As a result, France, despite its reputation for melancholy, self-doubt, and pessimism, is about to elect its youngest-ever president.
This may transform what was once seen as an ordinary human variation - being shy, uptight, or melancholy - into a psychiatric problem.
And then there was the ’60s rocker with the eyes of a sad wolf and cheekbones hewn by Giacometti, the Catcher in the Rye mood, and a melancholy so intensely hopeless that it seemed to condemn him to live on the edge of every form of excess.
Does he share with his distant Republican predecessor a strong enough predisposition to melancholy?
There is thunder in her words, coexisting with a bottomless melancholy.
Games between Holland and Germany, for example, or Germany and Poland, tended, until very recently, to be reenactments of the war; either – and most commonly – as melancholy replays of wartime defeat, or as sweet revenge.
The songs of Fito Paéz, another popular artist, rise through the air, accompanied by the necessary melancholy intoned by the crowds.
It was a heavy mass, a low pile of buildings from which rose the silhouette of a factory chimney; occasional gleams appeared from dirty windows, five or six melancholy lanterns were hung outside to frames of blackened wood, which vaguely outlined the profiles of gigantic stages; and from this fantastic apparition, drowned in night and smoke, a single voice arose, the thick, long breathing of a steam escapement that could not be seen.
Their voices were lost, gusts of wind carrying away the words in a melancholy howl.
It resembled a melancholy conflagration.
Now that old age was coming on, his cat's eyes were sometimes dimmed with melancholy.
It was a greeting, the joy of those ancient things of which a gust had reached him, the melancholy of one more prisoner who would not ascend again until death.
It goes up from grandfather to grandfather, one doesn't know how far back, quite to the beginning when they first took the pick down there at Réquillart."M. Grégoire thoughtfully contemplated this woman and these pitiful children, with their waxy flesh, their discoloured hair, the degeneration which stunted them, gnawed by anaemia, and with the melancholy ugliness of starvelings.
It was the wan and deathly melancholy of a funeral.
Now that they were overcome by fatigue, they trailed their feet, slipping in the mud, with the mournful melancholy of a flock stricken by an epidemic.
It was now quite night, the exhausted miners were at last eating their soup, and the settlement had fallen into a melancholy silence, only disturbed by these loud outcries.
He only felt gratitude towards the young man who, since his arrival, had made the house less melancholy.
At the quay on the canal a barge was moored, half-laden, lying drowsily in the murky water; and on the deserted pit-bank, in which the decomposed sulphates smoked in spite of the rain, a melancholy cart showed its shafts erect.
And the doubt which sometimes touched him awoke again in the frightful melancholy of the twilight, and tortured him with a discomfort which he had never felt so strongly before.
Thus Montsou, which swarmed with people on feast-days, now exhibited its wide street in mute and melancholy desolation.
The others on the pavement shouted that he had sold himself to the Company, while Maheude, with her arms in the air, in a burst of avenging indignation, cried out for his death, exclaiming that such a man did not deserve to eat.The return to the settlement was melancholy.
That was as far as Father Quandieu's intelligence went, stiffened by his obstinacy of military duty, his narrow skull, and eyes dimmed by the black melancholy of half a century spent underground.
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