A pair of mourning doves hunted for food near a shaggy boxwood hedge, cooing to each other in their soft melancholy voices. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

His heart was heavy, and he had been melancholy since the previous night. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gave her a melancholy pleasure to eat the creatures that had so recently tried to bite her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reynie gave a melancholy little wave—one part hello and one part goodbye—then bent and hid the note beneath two big rocks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Too true, sir," said the mare with a melancholy whinny. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was upset and melancholy, but life, instead of ending at this moment, was just beginning for him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be cheeky, Jack,” remonstrated the landlord, in a melancholy and pathetic way. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lydia’s going to Brighton was all that consoled her for her melancholy conviction of her husband’s never intending to go there himself. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she lacked Kainene’s melancholy mystique, which exhilarated and confused him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were gentle and lilting, these sighs, and despite their melancholy Reynie loved to hear them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She felt a nausea of the soul, a hideous and sickening despair, a melancholy weariness so profound that she was going to die of it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, she’d gaze out an open upstairs window, and her sighs would float to us on the breeze, melancholy as the call of a mourning dove. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was the tantalizing melancholy in the tingling scent of burning hickory wood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we had known them so short a while there was melancholy in the parting. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kama, melancholy son of Surya, God of Day. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s given up some of her passivity lately, some of her melancholy. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could anything be more dreadful?—but she was too upset to resume teaching or even to read melancholy German poems in translation. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was brought up short by the rope which was wound round the tree—the vacuous brachet meanwhile giving a melancholy yelp— and fell off his horse with a tremendous clang. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps all this that I think is mere melancholy and dismay, which will fly away as the dust, when I stand once again beneath the poplars and listen to the rustling of their leaves. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

No force on earth can stop me, except that her song starts and crushes the moment with melancholy. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I am at a loss to explain the melancholy that settled over me on that victorious night,” he later wrote. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But they are also defeated eyes, uncertain and melancholy, heavy with unloved duty. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

For Tuck’s head tilted to one side, his eyes went soft, and the gentlest smile in the world displaced the melancholy creases of his cheeks. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The stillness of the tent becomes a quiet melancholy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His face looked strangely melancholy and sallow; his hands might have been candles, he might have been about to bless her like a priest on Ash Wednesday. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then his eyes opened, eyes that were jaundiced and tired, and he spoke with a melancholy weariness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A look of deep melancholy crossed the Mathemagician’s face and his eyes grew moist with sadness. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a melancholy light to see by. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a cold and lonely sound, full of melancholy and despair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She chided me less for my laziness and melancholy, and she allowed me more time to study and write. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“The streets,” Carey reported, “wore the appearance of gloom and melancholy.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps his melancholy was due to some other cause than love,” he said, frowning. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He chanted above it in a melancholy tone: “Now, I’m asking the first mother who really loves her son to bring him to me for baptism!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it uttered a series of long deep melancholy cries and flew off again into the night. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He paused, his sulking ire turning to melancholy, and frowned irritably as though it were all Yossarian’s fault. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They frolicked in a melancholy way, half giddy with freedom and travel, half fearful and lonely and worried, and irritated too, having gotten along in China, but as the simplest of friends. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Grete, come into us for a moment," said Mrs. Samsa with a melancholy smile, and Grete went, not without looking back at the corpse, behind her parents into the bed room. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whistle blew, there was a long, melancholy cry from the engine. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her letters described her secluded, melancholy life, and she referred to her husband with blind sympathy, as a fine, discreet, considerate man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful, and also a bit melancholy for me to see the pretty kites sputter to the ground. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And you can listen to Leonard Cohen and wrap yourself up in a warm blanket of exquisite melancholy. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“People like me,” Bloom whispered aloud with a wry melancholy smile, “are called Yo-Yos.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He resisted the introduction, but she married him anyway, only to discover that he was suffering from and enjoying an invincible melancholy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he becomes a teenager, Theo has bouts of melancholy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It reminded her of their first forlorn tête-à-tête, on the evening of Mrs. Weston’s wedding-day; but Mr. Knightley had walked in then, soon after tea, and dissipated every melancholy fancy. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked down to the bay, feeling melancholy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It begins, It is a melancholy object to those who walk . Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Milo let out a long, melancholy wail and staggered back, beads of perspiration popping out suddenly all over his ashen face. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps," I said, "'a's simply ruled by a melancholy humour." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Katie lapsed into a melancholy silence, a far-off expression in her eyes. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

He was the chaplain’s clerk, a slender Irishman with prematurely gray hair and gray, melancholy eyes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song he was still playing, my song, drifted to an end, the final chords shifting to a more melancholy key. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis and I today walked to that melancholy place, to view the suicides’ pitiable condition and inquire whether we might in some wise offer succor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Olanna felt a rush of melancholy; her twin sister thought something had to have happened for her to call. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As melancholy as he is, he keeps working. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The spirits’ steps grew wider and their hum stretched across the open sky, filled Sierra’s soul with a melancholy contentment. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Pray do, my dear Miss Lucas,” she added in a melancholy tone, “for nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me. I am cruelly used, nobody feels for my poor nerves.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Endless night was spread over its melancholy people. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was away from Denmark for many months at a time, and Gertrude was always melancholy in his absence. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was a melancholy task, for he was reminded of another afternoon when he’d done the same chore. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It read, in bold black ink: Warning: The following pages, whether used as a journal or for ideas, are most assuredly filled with melancholy, cynicism, and woe. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And she picked him up carefully, avoiding his spurs, and took him outside into the dark, where a loose piece of corrugated iron roofing was banging in the cold wind with a melancholy sound. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He fell into a deeply reflective, melancholy mood. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But as it is I perceive behind them only the suffering of the creature, the awful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Giving in to melancholy is not conducive to the generation of energy.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The vlei people melted into the shadows, and all he could detect were their melancholy cries and the squelch of their feet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the archness of his tone—which normally would have irritated me—there was a melancholy undernote in his voice. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For some time afterward, a melancholy humour seemed to rule us as well. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of his favorites, Pac’s voice defiant over the melancholy chorus sampled from the Five Stairsteps—“Ooh, child, things are gonna get easier.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She said Lord Jon had been reading more than was good for him, that he was troubled and melancholy over his young son's frailty, and gruff with his lady wife. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The rage mingled with the general melancholy that had been growing in her steadily since the bombing of Pearl Harbor; it was one of the rare times in Fujiko’s adult life when she felt inconsolable. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A little examination and much less melancholy would have proved to us that our seeds were not the only ones that did not sprout; nobody’s did. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

TVs a child I thought nothing of it, but when I became an adolescent, I began to read the verses on the tombstones with a certain pleasant melancholy. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his normal faraway affect and distinct air of melancholy. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

My eyes closed and the moon drew me west, away from the island of my melancholy. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was a lad I had no such melancholy and no such weepings and tempers, and no slaves, either.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A few melancholy birds were piping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The handwriting throughout was shaky and hurried, but the style resembled her husband’s and the melancholy, self-pitying tone was familiar, although more dreary than usual. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Robert looked off into the darkness, for a moment as melancholy as a Stark. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I honestly can’t remember much else about those years except a certain mood that permeated most of them, a melancholy feeling that I associate with watching “The Wonderful World of Disney” on Sunday nights. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sat mutely in a ponderous, stultifying melancholy, waiting expectantly for Corporal Whitcomb to walk back in. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

One is proud, one collects one’s receipts, and even if one is a bit melancholy, one moves on. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She gave off an aura of melancholy and bewilderment, a scent of lavender and old clothes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not today, Mrs. Clarke. In fact, it is a rather melancholy German poem, which we are reading in translation. But you are welcome to stay nevertheless.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He tried to smile, but his eyes were downcast and melancholy. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the sloop-of-war upon which they sailed returned, and reported the melancholy news that they had met with resistance at a rebel farm, and that eight men were lost. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The figure heaved a long and melancholy sigh, and the portal opened wider. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was something chilling in the thought, something a little melancholy, and looking at the clock I saw that five more minutes had gone by. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And since the accident, those traits that I loved had given way to something darker—seriousness had become gravity, sensitivity had transformed into melancholy. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She could not find, between herself and the African statuette, or totem pole, on which he gazed with such melancholy wonder, any point of contact. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A face had been carved in the trunk of the great tree, its features long and melancholy, the deep-cut eyes red with dried sap and strangely watch-ful. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Until puberty Fernanda had no news of the world except for the melancholy piano lessons taken in some neighboring house by someone who for years and years had the drive not to take a siesta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I felt the warm tug of the past and the melancholy of absence—all of it a little jarring, accustomed as I was to the hermetic and youthful world of college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ten years old, Chester’s age, but imbued with the melancholy grace of an elderly house slave, the sum of practiced gestures. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was nostalgic and melancholy, a beautiful sadness for the, things she had missed and the things she would never know. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They stood there facing each other and for a second I thought they had reached that stage of intoxication where silliness gives way to melancholy and self-pity. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“No, this is a dangerous melancholy, and it bears close watching,” he said as he turned his angry gaze upon me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"Oh, we do indeed ken it. In fact you might tell him that our Mr. Shakespeare has found his book invaluable. As you may have noticed, Hamlet is a very master of melancholy." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her hearty voice, always on the verge of laughter, made the melancholy news sound somehow cheerful, but seeing that she had saddened Mr. Clutter, she turned to other matters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thrill of an unexpected late-night visit was just the thing to knock all those melancholy musings out of her head; it held the promise of adventure. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Then, with a melancholy howl, they backed away. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were more prayers, a psalm, the Lord’s Prayer and another long one in which the falling tones of valediction gathered into a melancholy finality. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Turning, with eyes a little saddened by the recollection of Benito’s curly blackness, she saw in a corner the small thin body, the melancholy face of Bernard Marx. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lander’s words had set Cora in a melancholy place. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was so melancholy, and yet so sweet, that it fitted his mood exactly. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tent flapped open, and the low melancholy moan of the wind blew tiny snowflakes, like silver seeds, over Amah. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My father was in the meantime overjoyed, and, in the bustle of preparation, only recognised in the melancholy of his niece the diffidence of a bride. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the tune Apollo strummed was so melancholy it broke Leo’s feels. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The tragedy is so old that its horror has leached away and only a certain air of faithlessness and melancholy clings to the stones and shadows of the house. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Would they see the immense melancholy that hung over the quarter, so oppressive that men had to dull their sensibilities in noise or wine or sex or gluttony in order to escape it? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So new to him,” she muttered, “so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us! Call Estella.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had already decided that when he was a grown knight he would give himself a melancholy tide. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sound he associated with blind nights at sea—lonely, familiar, hushed, and so melancholy he could never listen without emptiness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here’s more: “I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow. All gold, flowing...” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Or tell her that melancholy afflicts me still.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, sorrow for his father vexes his spirit, making him quite melancholy,” said Horatio. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He sat perfectly still, with a formal, melancholy expression, his gaze fixed to one side. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The melancholy mood of evening spread along the river, and after the strange cries of birds settling to roost were gone, a strange silence fell upon the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was never happier than when he had outwitted some foolish custom, and he was never more melancholy than when brooding over the impossibility of his ever being free. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Next she fell into melancholy, grumbling about the lazy British commanders floating at anchor off Staten Island, observing New York through long spyglasses but making no move to invade. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned away from the window at last, his voice was tired and full of melancholy, and moisture glittered faintly in the corners of his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her advice in the face of melancholy is: “Think about all the suffering in the world and be thankful you’re not part of it.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In about five minutes, however, he began to get more and more quiet, and finally sank into a sort of melancholy, in which state he has remained up to now. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Chronically ill, having recently lost two young children, his wife was described as “stupid, sulking, lonely, melancholy.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still asleep, and the melancholy creases that folded his daytime face were smoothed and slack. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The organ turned to a melancholy last hymn, playing too slowly; after four verses, it sighed to silence a phrase or two behind the congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

No learning is worth having to endure such melancholy. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

On one side, Taran noticed, an alcove had been hollowed out; it was filled with roots, lichens, and mushrooms—the food stock, he guessed, of the melancholy inhabitant. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

But even now, especially now, the bitter melancholy words of Job could still reach me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hungry, weak, in pain, he starts to crash into melancholy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A queenless colony is a pitiful and melancholy community; there may be a mournful wail or lament from within. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, sir,” he said regretfully in a low, courteous, melancholy voice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As he imparted this melancholy circumstance to Wemmick, Mr. Jaggers standing magisterially before the fire and taking no share in the proceedings, Mike’s eye happened to twinkle with a tear. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It is April, and I am melancholy, and twenty-one years have passed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His experience there seemed to be the source of his melancholy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But despite its hints at the shift from modes to keys, Miserere mei is still framed within the medieval Phrygian mode, often noted for its air of melancholy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It is this denial,” he announced, “that has plunged the prince deep into the melancholy of love. Fasting, brooding, sighing, and disordered dress are its most infallible signs.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He radiated a kind of old energy—a melancholy that came from knowing he didn’t belong in the modern world. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The thought of it plunged me into a melancholy as deep as the coal mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His demeanor had a kind of melancholy which was perplexing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

These feelings translated themselves to her in extreme melancholy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather, it foists itself on the eye of the passerby in a manner that is both irritating and melancholy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper probably shouldn’t have laughed, but she was too full of nervousness and melancholy to hold it in. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The second officer was a tall, thin man with a melancholy expression and dark hair thinning above his forehead. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“No!” whispered Montag, “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.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her students were old enough that she rarely read aloud to them, but today she wanted them to be able to focus on what she called the “magnificent melancholy of Charlotte’s final moments.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“It almost tastes a little melancholy,” he said. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

There he hung or hoved, his vast ironic mouth permanently drawn downward in a kind of melancholy, his lean clean-shaven chops giving him an American expression, like that of Uncle Sam. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is one of a row of little stucco-and-cement hotels lining a white, melancholy street. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without warning, a mixture of joy and melancholy and hope and nostalgia overwhelmed him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Because he had once written a book, a dry treatise on melancholy, he felt the world should ever after make special allowances for him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was time, she said, for Abdulrahman to leave Jableh and get away, if only for a spell, from their home so full of melancholy. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Her voice floated upward with the sweet summer air, very tuneful, charged with a sort of happy melancholy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I thought, Jane, you had told me all. I thought I had found the source of your melancholy in a dream.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The eu-phoria, the overwhelming sense of relief, that had initially ac-companied my return to Petersburg faded, and an unexpected melancholy took its place. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna was startled when she first heard the melancholy tones, music so pure and so confidently played that it charged the air and held the swaying banana trees still. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once the Protectorate’s gates closed behind them, though, and the citizens returned with their melancholy broods of children to their drab little homes, the Elders quickened their pace. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I know about his melancholy, his ambition, his desperation, the corners of emptiness in him that needed to be filled. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Far out on the marshes, a bird called with a long, melancholy series of falling tones. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So while Theo is playing contentedly in the garden with his sisters, we draw a tinge of melancholy into his countenance, a slight frown, a worried brow. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But Henry’s tone was almost, for a moment, melancholy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his melancholy soon turns to rage as he learns that his actions are not being applauded. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that peony taken with wine can relieve nightmares or melancholy dreams. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Papa’s smile didn’t change the melancholy in his eyes as he reached up to put his hand over hers. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Looking for his kinsfolk, he led Dermer on a melancholy march inland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I am sometimes melancholy, too, Vincent tells his brother, and I, too, think of disappearing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My mind relaxes and my eyes have enough to take in to distract me from my melancholy thoughts. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were still full of that weird melancholy, like he was in two places at once; but nothing about his expression indicated any kind of joke. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Each seemed taken up with the same melancholy thoughts—thoughts which, however sad, were at least far from Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring he went to Venice alone for a week, the trip he’d planned for the two of them, saturating himself in its ancient, melancholy beauty. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pale, her blue eyes clouded with an unwonted melancholy, she sat in a corner, cut off from those who surrounded her by an emotion which they did not share. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr Cardinal fell silent again and for a moment - perhaps it was to do with his having evoked memories of his late father - he looked extremely melancholy. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“When a few days over six months old, his nurse pretended to cry ... I saw that his face instantly assumed a melancholy expression, with the corners of the mouth strongly depressed.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

When the meal concluded, I felt almost melancholy, the kind of small-scale sadness that accompanies the end of all pleasurable experiences. Review | Sushi Gakyu’s thrills lie beyond the menu 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Long summer drives to upstate New York helped him find the words for the warm, bright music he wrote to combat the melancholy he found himself in after an “exhausting” last tour. Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold on what inspired the band’s surprise new album, ‘Shore’ 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

On Monday night, as the entire company massed onstage, it was plangent and melancholy. The Public Theatre at Fifty: “A Machine for Making Community” 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

She drew from his work but made her interpretation less joyful for this melancholy film. When Production Design Plays a Supporting Role 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

“The Buried Giant” is a melancholy book, and the mist that breathes through it is a melancholic mist. Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

She grew up in a warm, artistically rich home, but the violence and tragedy of the outside world loomed, both in the melancholy music she grew up listening to, and in her everyday reality. Silvana Estrada Arrives With a Devastating Album About Heartbreak 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

And throughout the night, Mr. Bey struck melancholy notes that somehow managed to be reframed as optimistic philosophy. For Yasiin Bey, Once Known as Mos Def, a Comeback With the Finish Line in Mind 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

The ways in which Lee examines the strange bond between Pi and Richard Parker are wondrous, hilarious, unnerving, sometimes joyous, often melancholy. Review: Lee's 'Life of Pi' is inspiring 3-D art 2012-11-19T15:14:09Z

Beck's acoustic melancholy is replaced with a medley of psychedelic garage pop and funky dance numbers. Beck's Colors Finds Joy In Its Time 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

It’s something of a profanity-laden counterpart to “Death of a Salesman,” its scorched-earth monologues and inventive insults providing the flashy surface to a melancholy indictment of empty capitalism and toxic masculinity. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Eleven of its 14 songs were featured, underpinning the set with a swirling melancholy. Review | Singer-songwriter Ted Leo reemerges from a four-year gloom 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Brian Burton, is partial to stubbornly slow tempos and a melancholy undertow, using strings and voices as ghostly reinforcements and letting notes echo into the shadowy distance. Michael Kiwanuka’s ‘Love & Hate’ Plunges Into Despair, With a Retro Feel 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

But there is, says Madden, another, much simpler reason for the melancholy. Deirdre Madden: 'The Troubles are almost always in my work at some level' 2013-06-14T15:00:05Z

There's more than enough to enjoy, and plenty about the remarkable and melancholy figure of Fleming himself, who never lived quite long enough to enjoy the success of his creation. Everything Or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007: review 2012-10-04T20:29:01Z

“White Sands,” his latest collection of essays, contains his trademark blend of wit, sharpness and melancholy. Book Gift Ideas: Who Needs Wrapping? They’re Already Covered 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

But the film was a peculiar study of urban melancholy in general and of Ms. Ross’s blackness in particular. Review: In ‘The Wiz Live!’ on NBC, a Search for More in the Emerald City 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

The Eels’ music—intricate songs covering everything from mortality to mental illness, delivered by Everett’s melancholy baritone—owes a debt to Everett’s father, who was distant from Mark throughout his life. Jacob Lawrence, Audra McDonald, and Rockaway Taco 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Allen opens “Love Stone,” his ballads record, with “Stranger in Paradise” — his quartet floating in a taut rubato from tentative major to melancholy minor. The Playlist: Alessia Cara Grows Up, and 12 More New Songs 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Constitutionally unable to bear such uncertainty, Coldplay turned the melancholy synth refrain into a heroic guitar riff and threw a reassuring arm around those lonely shoulders: "Let's talk!" Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night five: Computer World 2013-02-12T15:13:31Z

Plant urged Krauss to sing it and in her hands, it becomes moody, melancholy and sensual. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss reunite to recapture magic 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

“The Americans,” the masterly, melancholy fourth season proved, is more like “Breaking Sad.” ‘The Americans,’ in Its Melancholy Fourth Season, Was ‘Breaking Sad’ 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

There needs to be a note of melancholy with the humor. Transparent rides wave of trans visibility to 11 Emmy nominations 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Unite and Take Over: Comic Stories Inspired by the Smiths is the brainchild of Shawn Demumbrum, a Phoenix, Arizona comics geek who clearly likes his Batman with a dash of melancholy. Morrissey as superhero: Smiths songs are transformed into comics 2011-08-03T16:36:19Z

In "I Was a Child: A Memoir," Kaplan recollects details from his childhood in New Jersey with a kind of puzzled, melancholy nostalgia. Festival of Books: Roz Chast, cartoonists talk about drawing from life 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

One of the traits of British humour is that we're self-effacing with a touch of melancholy and you can see that in all our post-war sitcoms from Rising Damp to The Office. Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth faces huge cock up 2010-08-19T14:10:00Z

The tale is a melancholy one, its Chekhovian tone underlined when the author informs readers that on the day the story ends, “January 17, 1904, Anton Chekhov debuted ‘The Cherry Orchard’ in Moscow.” Books of the Times: In Europe, Mixing Union and Diversity 2010-12-29T23:29:44Z

There is a particular kind of melancholy endemic to cities in the industrial Midwest. Is Love Enough to Save a City? 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

They’re each about a lonely young man, a fan of Billie Holiday and Langston Hughes and F. Scott Fitzgerald, adrift in the big melancholy city. The Pleasures of a Writer Who Was ‘Richard Pryor on Paper’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

That movie’s somewhat unstable blend of melancholy and humor was accompanied by an acute cognitive dissonance arising from the casting of Mr. Sandler. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z

The women pine after the men, who are lost in melancholy. Review: Ballet NY Presents a Premiere, Medhi Barati’s ‘What Ever’ 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

This melancholy farewell will be only the first for Lisa, who soon finds herself separated from her family. ‘The Pianist of Willesden Lane,’ a Jewish Girl’s War Story 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Baker’s poetic universe is a hushed, melancholy and at times ghostly place, haunted both by attachments to the past and by anxiety about its increasingly uncertain future. Review | In David Baker’s nature poetry, devastation lurks always in the background 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Instead of spending my nights staring at an empty chair in my kitchen in melancholy silence, I look forward to evenings and weekends with Fern, and to our future together. My first year as a widower: A look at spousal loss and gradual recovery 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Sohn ultimately prevailed Wednesday at the South by Southwest Music Conference, as he and two keyboardists created a cocoon of ambient atmosphere, topped with spiraling synth solos and shot through with melancholy melodies. SXSW 2013 Day 2: Sohn, No Ceremony///, Flume 2013-03-14T06:48:00Z

The tone, here, is wildly different from the more melancholy 2012 Magic Mike. Matt Bomer on Magic Mike XXL: It's All About Strong Female Characters 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Judging by Gosling’s melancholy melody in the trailer, the film appears to depict a Los Angeles that is part whimsical La La Land, part crushing City of Broken Dreams. Ryan Gosling Serenades Emma Stone in 'La La Land' Trailer 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

A massive crowd trekked up to the Park stage to watch Solange perform this melancholy masterpiece. Glastonbury festival 2013: watch the best live video clips 2013-07-01T12:20:28Z

Still, he admitted, the loss was “bound up in the melancholy of youth.” Tim Hecker Helped Popularize Ambient Music. He’s (Sort of) Sorry. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

After these delightfully brazen disclaimers, the lecturer decides to tell his listeners about the “deadly honey” of melancholy and what makes it “the most enigmatic of attractions.” ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

In the melancholy lovelorn likes of Marlena's Eyes and Fiona's Song, he creates a highly personal, emotionally vulnerable electronic music which is uniquely his. Bozzwell ? the enlightenment 2010-12-27T12:32:54Z

The eloquent chimes at the opening created an arresting atmosphere of melancholy beauty. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla brings her magic back to the Bowl 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

"Funny, melancholy, thought-provoking, inventive … Barlay has thought about the country we live in and how it got to be the way it is – Hilary Mantel." Then and now: Granta's best young British novelists 2013-04-06T07:00:20Z

A generation ago, Yung Lean might have cooed over a fingerpicked guitar, but today his medium is confessional rapping over airy, melancholy rap beats. Yung Lean, King of the Sad Boys 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

His compositions had a melancholy feel and narrative structure that veered close to country music and proved influential in Memphis and Nashville. William Bell, a Stax Records Team Player, Upholds and Extends 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

“It's kind of like a beautiful melancholy, I guess,” Sahlin says of the game's tone. Ten games that made a lasting impression at E3 2015 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

He would write that his father — whom he described as a “hugely talented” but commercially unsuccessful painter — was a melancholy presence in his home. Josh Ozersky, a sometimes-snarky food critic mesmerized by meat, dies at 47 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

This week's poem is my favourite of AE Housman's superbly melancholy lyrics. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z

“I really grew up with such a heavy melancholy, which was transmitted to me and which I transmit back into my films,” she said. Mia Hansen-Love and the Hazy Line Where Real Life Ends and Art Begins 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

If Rachman’s second novel, “The Rise & Fall of Great Powers,” about an odd bookstore owner, failed to inspire as much enthusiasm as “The Imperfectionists,” it still sported the same melancholy wit. Review | The art of rebellion: The son of a famous painter tries to reframe his life 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Tiler Peck and Craig Hall underplayed the melancholy, transforming it into transcendent serenity through their seamless flow and slow smoldering. New York City Ballet’s life-affirming new works boost the spirit 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The test of any Henry IV must be the transition from the knockabout comedy and provincial English violence of Part 1 to the sweet, haunting melancholy of Part 2. Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

That scene, and many more indelible moments — Snoopy’s battle with the Red Baron, Pig-Pen’s sooty ghost costume, Linus’s resolute quest for sincerity — are what make this melancholy, bittersweet special so beloved. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Charlie Brown’ and a Fats Domino Documentary 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

Written to commemorate the execution of 14 Hungarian revolutionaries, the work veers from funeral march to danse macabre to gentle melancholy. Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z

There’s also a melancholy that emerges in the deep-seated sarcasm. Cracking Jokes Right Before the World Turned Upside Down 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

She is still very much in mourning — melancholy seems to have settled on her like a heavy blanket, giving her an ineffable sadness that Newton conveys with expressive subtlety — but she seems otherwise OK. ‘God’s Country’ Review: A Solitary Woman Isn’t Left Alone for Long 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Reading it is an odd experience: there is the melancholy of having one's hero humanised, joined with renewed astonishment at the miracle he made of himself. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z

It's not often games get melancholy right - Heavy Rain does. Nick Gillett's top 10 games of 2010 2010-12-18T00:07:43Z

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,” Rae’s Nell contends, and the truth of this sentiment is confirmed in all its risible melancholy in this majestically wrought revival. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The song has had an endless afterlife, and a broad influence, for its precise chemistry of melancholy, suspense and propulsion. Everything but the Girl Breaks a 24-Year Silence With a Bang 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

He has Rachel Whiteread's melancholy cast of the underside of a bath, with its overtones of both headstone and sarcophagus. From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D Daskalopoulos Collection – review 2012-12-23T00:06:37Z

Ms. Akers’s show was too quiet and melancholy to be crowd pleasing, but there was not an emotionally false note. Critic’s Notebook: Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series at Allen Room 2013-02-03T22:53:42Z

A five-part epic on his bizarre relationship with a painting of a man he talks to achieves a perversely silly melancholy tone. Funny, Kooky and Short on the Net 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

There is something maddening and melancholy about how true beauty is so un-extendable. How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Unite and Take Over: Comic Stories Inspired by the Smiths is the brainchild of Shawn Demumbrum, an Arizona-based comics publisher who clearly likes his Batman with a dash of melancholy. The Smiths' songs as comics ? in pictures 2011-08-03T16:35:00Z

Mr. Blanchard’s band, which will appear at the Jazz Standard this week starting Wednesday, is adept at evoking a cinematic melancholy. New Music: New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant 2013-05-27T21:56:34Z

Yet when it came to singing Dietrich's vintage repertoire, Petri cut to the core of this music, capturing much of the melancholy and world-weariness that helped make Dietrich a global star. Suzanne Petri conjures Marlene Dietrich at Millennium Park 2010-12-21T15:48:00Z

In person, Mr. Kiefer, dressed in a black T-shirt and dark pants, was noticeably more cheerful than the air of melancholy that surrounds his works gathered at the Pompidou. Anselm Kiefer and His Hallmarks Have a Moment 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Disco is perfect for New Year's Eve: danceable, camp, uplifting and with a slight undertow of melancholy. The perfect New Year's Eve playlist 2010-12-31T08:00:03Z

Both products of Vienna, more than a century apart, they nevertheless share a quiet intensity, as well as expressiveness shaded by longing and melancholy. Review: The Unaffected Excellence of the Cleveland Orchestra 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

He is light, stinging, insolent and melancholy, to borrow the words the critic Kenneth Tynan kept on his writing desk to remind himself how to sound. Gary Shteyngart Is Back, on the Road and Still a Master of Dislocation 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

According to the notion of the "humours", melancholy was caused by an excess of black bile – hence the darkened face and the appropriate black ink. D?rer's Melencolia I ? a masterpiece, and a diagnosis 2011-03-18T10:52:50Z

Loneliness is like a disease that infects every waking moment of a person’s life with melancholy. | Laurie Simmons's Love Doll 2011-02-21T14:00:13Z

I'm not aware of feeling angry now … I'm left with his underlying melancholy. Karin Ward: 'I'm not angry at Jimmy Savile now' 2012-12-09T00:04:01Z

Messerschmidt was morbidly obsessed with extreme facial contortions, which he rendered in a lead-tin alloy that adds to their melancholy weirdness. Face value: expressions bring 4D ultrasound scans to life 2013-06-06T14:37:56Z

And don't get us started on autumnal melancholy. New band of the day ? No 797: Million Young 2010-05-28T16:10:00Z

In 2011, she created three final dances, including “I’m Going to Toss My Arms—If You Catch Them They’re Yours,” a loose-limbed, melancholy work, in which nine dancers shared the stage with nine industrial fans. Katia Bachko: Dance This Summer 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

I'm a fan of Richard Ford, his prose style and the melancholy he conveys. Summer reading: Guardian US journalists share their tips 2013-07-03T19:14:59Z

Each person — and, in some cases, animal — is captured in an eloquent vignette, at times high spirited or melancholy and moving. Review | In these new audiobooks, great tales are matched with great narrators 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Crowe doesn’t do brooding or biting, even if there can be a strain of melancholy in his work. With ‘Roadies,’ Cameron Crowe Takes His Good Mood to TV 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Her voice shines like dapples of pale moonlight, and is especially arresting in moments of ambling melancholy. Tirzah’s Genre-Less Pop Embraces the Beauty of Uncertainty 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

What’s left behind is both that barely concealed anger but now, too, his melancholy, his lonely self-absorption, an inability to see or love the people around him for who they really are. Emma Cline on Anger and Nostalgia 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

The melancholy harmonies of American Meccano retained the eloquence of the OC DC album performance, even without that session's star vocal guest, Robert Wyatt. Get the Blessing – review 2013-03-20T18:35:29Z

Waves of melancholy wash over the story and keep the treacle at bay, as do the spasms of broad comedy, much of it nimbly executed by Mr. Baron Cohen. | 'Hugo': Martin Scorsese?s ?Hugo,? With Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen - Review 2011-11-22T22:17:26Z

Of course he didn't – they just share the same cultural ideas and fashion for melancholy props. Louise Bourgeois in Scotland and jail for the Rothko vandal – the week in art 2012-12-14T15:36:18Z

Mr. Sheeran, the English songwriter, infused “Ain’t No Sunshine,” a staple of his live sets, with melancholy; he also brought out the anxiety in “Lonely Town, Lonely Street.” Review: A Bill Withers Tribute With His Soul Disciples 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

It lacks the melancholy wisdom of “A Landing on the Sun” and the beautifully engineered clockwork precision of “Headlong.” Books of The Times: ‘Skios’ by Michael Frayn 2012-06-27T21:35:39Z

She is the melancholy widow with whom roguish Bill Nighy is now in love. Every Judi Dench film – ranked! 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Here was a song of resigned melancholy about how to get through a personal crisis by appreciating things such as kicking a ball, visiting distant relatives, eating corn flakes. Gilbert O'Sullivan: time for a reappraisal? 2011-08-25T10:26:12Z

For the melancholy Tristram, that something else is love; whenever he sees Isolde, the object of his tragic affection, he seeks, as Berger writes, to “eliminate the separation between them.” Thomas Berger’s Egoless Fictions 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

"The hours and weeks and months," Bono said with a distinct melancholy flattening his voice, in an otherwise empty private room at a Manhattan restaurant in which he is an investor. Bono never guessed size of 'Spider-Man' challenges 2011-06-14T06:55:46Z

Macbeth was energetic and manic rather than melancholy, while Lady Macbeth was seductively evil in the style of a Disney villainess. Macbeth 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

And there was always an undercurrent of melancholy in my life. "Connected through inyeon": Teo Yoo reflects on the fate that guided his career and to "Past Lives" 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

At Covent Garden, meanwhile, the Royal Ballet 's quadruple bill lays on the melancholy. Rosas: The Song; Royal Ballet mixed bill 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

Its star, Nathan Fielder, displayed hints of melancholy, but nothing prepared fans for his wrenching season finale, “Finding Frances.” Comedy Highlights of 2017 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

“Say You Do” is worthy melancholy, about talking an ex into a last hurrah. New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z

Nobody needs arrogant, swaggering heroes, and the tone of hard-boiled melancholy that Theron in particular sets is welcome. ‘The Old Guard’ Review: Fighting to the Death, and Beyond 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

And at the height of grunge’s churning angst, R.E.M. released 1992’s gorgeous "Automatic for the People," which featured introspective ruminations on mortality and majestic, melancholy strings. How R.E.M. invented alternative music 2011-09-22T12:23:00Z

Scenes like that seem, at first glance, in stark contrast to the melancholy reflections on female friendship that punctuate “Bridesmaids.” Tossing the Bouquet Out of the Genre 2011-05-06T23:43:20Z

Fortunately this melancholy saga is interspersed with glimpses of Garland in action singing some of her bestknown songs. End of the Rainbow - review 2010-11-23T01:04:00Z

By providing a hopeful resolution, Rush alleviates some of Carver's despair, but this is still the essentially melancholy story of a man cast from suburban comforts into a position of sudden, very public humiliation. Everything Must Go: Will Ferrell, at Home in Carver Country 2011-05-12T09:10:00Z

The melancholy, psychological documentary captures this brief curtain call, which ended disastrously. Jeremiah Tower, a Forgotten Father of the American Food Revolution 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

She is like a dreamier, melancholy, middle-class version of Mike Leigh, improvising her way to the heart of things. Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne: ‘We should tell whatever stories we like’ 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Lead nominee and recent Nashville emigre Jason Isbell won song of the year for "Alabama Pines," a melancholy salute to his former north Alabama home that he wrote while feeling homesick. Welch, Civil Wars, Shakes win at Americana Awards 2012-09-13T03:30:14Z

Ms. Gyllenhaal works very hard to meet the script’s alternating demands for melancholy and manic cheerfulness while keeping a credible British accent in place. | 'Nanny McPhee Returns': Emma Thompson Tames the Wild Child in Wartime 2010-08-19T23:34:00Z

It joins Netflix’s Queen Elizabeth II drama “The Crown” as yet another escape into the opulent, occasionally melancholy history of British royalty. PBS’s ‘Victoria’ extravagantly portrays another young queen, but she’s a bit of a bore 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

If helplessness and disorientation are your primary responses to the world we find ourselves in, “Don’t Forget the Driver,” a melancholy BBC comedy premiering Tuesday on the streaming channel BritBox, should speak to you. Review: ‘Don’t Forget the Driver’ Is a Comedy for Our Moment 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Like “Wuthering Heights,” “The Whispering House” is a melancholy novel, its characters filled with dark longings. He’s an Artist. His Medium? Wings, Tails, Scales, Beaks and Claws. 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Admittedly, the more melancholy and introspective the music, the more I was susceptible to it, and these Purcell songs were certainly that. Alfred Deller: a voice from the past 2012-05-31T09:52:25Z

But Low’s minimalist, melancholy sound stood in sharp contrast to the anthems of Generation X angst that came to define the era. Mimi Parker, Moody Alt-Rock Vocalist, Is Dead at 55 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

The Italian hills have never looked less bucolic than in this strange, melancholy film. My streaming gem: why you should watch Happy as Lazzaro 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

It’s more melancholy than mournful, and it lacks days-of-wrath religious terror or any equivalent stakes. Review: Kyle Abraham’s Out There ‘Requiem,’ With Nods to Mozart 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

And a sense of absence, of muted melancholy runs like a subtle leitmotif throughout the show. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Returning to Where the Dream Began 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z

It’s lambing season, and a mysterious, initially unexplained melancholy hangs over the couple’s calm labors. ‘Lamb’ Review: Oh No, Not My Baby! 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The cycle is capped with two extensive summations; the final “Complainte” brings together voices and violas in a melancholy outpouring. Classical Playlist: Holliger, Pieczonka, Sivan Magen and More 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Dreamy music and melancholy images accumulate, and Mr. Frost even speaks in what sounds like free verse. Review: A Search for Meaning in ‘Garnet’s Gold’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Particularly in black and white, it's an unsentimental, melancholy portrait of a decaying American heartland - its drab bars, roadside motels and paint-chipped farm houses. Payne back on the road with 'Nebraska' at Cannes 2013-05-23T17:02:09Z

"The Importance of Being 'Jersey Shore'" The world is sad, Oscar Wilde said, because a puppet was once melancholy. "The Importance of Being 'Jersey Shore'" 2011-04-26T01:01:00Z

His fiddle playing had the deliberately rough-hewed sound of rural tradition; his tone could be sweet or scratchy, his phrases songful and melancholy or propulsive and gnarled with ornamental turns and quavers. Dave Swarbrick, British Folk Fiddler, Dies at 75 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

But the forced profundity of the “Butterfly” script undermines the film’s enthralling sense of atmosphere, which drips with melancholy, menace and wonder. ‘Giving Birth to a Butterfly’ Review: Melancholy and Menace 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Alan Jackson, just inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, dives deeper into the reserved melancholy that’s defined the second half of his career. The Playlist: Taylor Swift Has a Miserable Crush and 12 More New Songs 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The great soprano Gundula Janowitz, as the Prima Donna and Ariadne, sings with silvery tone and a mood of poised, melancholy introversion, as if she were a marble statue awakened to life. Richard Strauss Recordings Recommended by Critics 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

But they were the exceptions on a night when the band embraced the physical as much as the cerebral, favoring movement over melancholy. Concert review: Radiohead at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre 2012-06-11T06:27:00Z

Tate’s voice, deep and melancholy, also bears an unmistakable resemblance to the voice of Matt Berninger, the lead singer of The National. San Fermin Brings Back Lavish Ensemble Indie Pop 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

But like many of Pite’s works, it strikes a serious single note for so long, that it begins to blur into a generalized melancholy impression. On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

Somber, melancholy clouds align with the skies in the panels to complete his artistic composition. Nick Brandt's 'Inherit the Dust' photos track Africa's tragic urban sprawl 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Here, it moves from muscular swing on “Angel in the Snow” to pointed acoustic melancholy on “Do You Really Want to Get Better” to the scrambled, overpowering gestures on “Make Me Dumb.” Even Punks Learn Regret. ‘Cody’ Is Joyce Manor’s Take on Aging 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Yet his long shots of the men, motionless and alone, express a melancholy and isolation that’s oddly touching. Review: Six Strongmen Cultivate ‘A Skin So Soft’ 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Just shy of 7-feet tall, Puddles the clown doesn't speak or smile and seems haunted by an air of melancholy. Puddles: Sad clown, big voice 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

“Wow.” is boastful but not melancholy — “I got a lot of toys/720S bumpin’ Fall Out Boy” — and he’s largely rapping, with only a flimsy skin of melody. The Playlist: D’Angelo’s Cowboy Soul, and 9 More New Songs 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

In the Scherzo, Aizuri’s syncopations were playful yet meticulous while, in the finale, the quartet bided its time, allowing the icy melancholy to melt into radiant sunbeams. In Aizuri Quartet, a natural bond and a captivating performance 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

An undeniable melancholy — a sense of loss — pervades the film. ‘Malni — Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore’ Review: Embracing Our Ghosts 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

But they also seem melancholy and preoccupied with the negative critical response to Miracles. And God created controversy 2010-10-08T23:03:00Z

The result is melancholy, mysterious and utterly mesmerising. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-07-07T23:05:22Z

Like a smiling cavalier swinging into view to rescue an imperiled maiden, The Artist brings salvation to melancholy movie lovers. The Artist: A 'Silent' Film to Sing About 2011-11-22T15:30:45Z

It depended on the player’s ability to slide from one note to the next in such a way as to suggest fugitive emotions: sadness, yearning, melancholy, exhilaration. Bonnie Raitt and the Fugitive Emotions Evoked by Slide Guitar 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

But his best songs – Paid for That and mellifluously tuneful The Base – mix epic melancholy with pretty melodies. Paul Banks – review 2013-01-23T15:16:00Z

Minimalism at its most minimal was represented by Philip Glass’s ceaseless “Music in Similar Motion,” performed by the Bang on a Can All Stars before a potent rendition of Mr. Glass’s melancholy “Closing.” Music Review: 13 Hours of Sounds and Psychedelia 2011-06-24T21:33:31Z

Until recently, in fact, not many people wanted to look at his strange and silent paintings, with their highly ordered friezes of spellbound figures, so touched with fin-de-siècle melancholy and yearning. Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z

Better yet is the following track, a smoldering reading of the Weeknd’s 2018 hit “Call Out My Name” which adds some welcome muscle to the original’s wounded melancholy. The Daily Revelations of Kellyoke 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

I like to see myself as a goofy but pleasant-ish person with a melancholy tinge. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Disarming Humor in ‘Heads of the Colored People’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

Prone to melancholy and given to epic benders, he was in a difficult period in life when he met her, Mr. Stevens said in a phone interview. Mimi Kilgore, Arts Patron and de Kooning Muse, Dies at 87 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

A smidgeon of Rose's old spikiness is sacrificed, but it's easily a fair swap for songs bulging with terrific hooks and killer choruses, all of which belie some melancholy content. Caitlin Rose: The Stand-In – review 2013-02-21T21:30:01Z

It takes less than a minute of Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound Of Silence to plunge the world into melancholy. Score draws 2010-12-04T00:05:00Z

While Ms. Yoncheva didn’t dwell on that not-quite-syllable at the end of “silence,” she used it — to create a brief aura of melancholy, a puff of dark cloud. Review: A Starry ‘Don Carlos’ Brings Verdi, in French, to Paris 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Even as he wrestled with drugs and depression, Smith wrote beautiful, melancholy and understated songs, laced with wry humour. Elliott Smith reissue upsets fans 2010-03-24T10:36:00Z

There was melancholy in seeing other people having fun. Leanne Shapton: 'The idea for my new novel came from my raging jealousy' 2013-04-28T09:30:01Z

The Georgian language lends itself to melancholy, and one luxuriates in Murvanidze's voice. As You Like It – review 2012-05-22T09:51:51Z

Mr. Abraham combined ballet with hip-hop attitude, hybrid style, confrontational tracks by Kanye West and Jay-Z and a melancholy one by James Blake to be utterly contemporary. Review: William Forsythe Brings a New Playlist to Boston 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

That takes in birthdays and weddings, of course, but for the miserablists among you, something more melancholy too. Readers recommend: songs about anniversaries 2010-09-02T23:01:00Z

Ben’s face is mischievous, fond, melancholy and full of love. Perspective | Conversation over video is maddening. So take a lesson from literature’s great dialogue writers. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

That might sound like the makings of a family comedy – instead, it's a quiet, melancholy film about loneliness, poverty and desperation, entirely carried by its star's performance. Michelle Williams: five best moments 2013-03-08T13:03:03Z

I recognized the sad-faced Sami man with a reindeer, dressed in an ethnic costume and standing by a tipi-like hut, from photographs; his melancholy visage even illustrates the Sami Wikipedia page. Shetland Isles to Norway: Cruising the land of the midnight sun 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

With clarity and momentum, he builds the case for his melancholy, which — by virtue of being born into this historical trajectory — we each have been bequeathed. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

But even those elegant after-dark dresses, tinged by fire, had a sweet melancholy. Fashion Review: Sarah Burton Shows McQ, the Alexander McQueen Second Line 2012-02-21T18:19:33Z

“They are both people who have lived their whole lives in lockdown,” he says, “so it was easy to tell a story of solitude, of melancholy between them.” 'I had this image of my husband making love to a tree': directors on filming shorts for Netflix's Homemade 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

The Crumb Road has a rich, melancholy modesty, and to spend time with it enriches our attention. The Crumb Road by Maitreyabandhu – review 2013-07-05T17:30:00Z

Born in Lexington, Virginia, his sensibility seems steeped in the melancholy of the American south. Cy Twombly's late works alongside Turner and Monet – the week in art 2012-06-15T11:47:02Z

But there’s a different, melancholy side to Bridges’s songs and his voice: less assurance, more ache. Leon Bridges Brings Southern Soul Into the 21st Century 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Don’t read them straight through — better to dip in slowly, maybe randomly, getting lost in the characters’ melancholy as they themselves are lost. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

This teeming life, these unexpectedly touching scenes, come to the reader as both refreshing breeze and melancholy plaint, for what is observed here, what is gloried, is also what is inevitably lost with dying. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Tinged with melancholy, anger, and a healthy dose of dark humor, all of these stories exhibit a fierce pride in what one can accomplish. Recommended reading for April: New must-read books to liven up long shutdown days 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

From his first novel, “Metroland,” to “The Sense of an Ending,” which won the Booker Prize in 2011, Barnes has applied a melancholy drill to a patient still confined to the chair. He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Cander writes that the Blüthner in “The Weight of a Piano” always “sounded melancholy,” even when the music was supposed to be upbeat. A Novel About the Fate of a Piano — and the Dreams It Embodies 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

The following year, he photographed a somewhat bored and melancholy young Winston Churchill. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

The blue moods of Fado, the melancholy folk music, form the national soundtrack. 12 Treasures of Europe 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The plot has legs, and Locke’s blues-infused idiom lends a strain of melancholy to her lyrical style. The Best Crime Novels of 2017 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

The story centers on Yeong-hye, a melancholy housewife who is haunted by violent dreams that drive her to stop eating meat. ‘The Vegetarian,’ a Surreal South Korean Novel 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

This context returns rawness and melancholy back to the iconic work. Review: Picasso show lives up to the hype, and more 2010-10-07T21:38:00Z

But along with a blatant gift for melding melancholy melodies with industrial beats, the guarantee of grandiosity has kept the band a serious concert attraction more than 30 years into its career. The Flaming Lips bring the whole bag of props to 9:30 Club 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

True to bachata tradition, most of the songs are about love — usually unhappy love, laced with jealousy, rivalry and regrets, and sung with melancholy tension. Critic’s Notebook: New Music by Shakira, Juanes, Enrique Iglesias and Wisin 2014-03-27T20:50:23Z

Towering waves of shoegaze-y guitars accentuate her melancholy and give the song an emotional pull as elemental as a tide. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Before this journey, Keats always felt intense melancholy. When the World Stops, Traveling in John Keats’s ‘Realms of Gold’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

I’m thinking especially of the contralto Sara Mingardo, too little known in this country, whose voice is like soft, moist, dark earth and whose dignity and tenderness made Ottone’s melancholy magnetic. A Musical Handshake Spanning Centuries: Venice in New York 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

"There's also a tremendous sort of vitality and aliveness, and we needed both. There's something else we saw in her immediately, and that's the melancholy. It's readable in her eyes." Marion Cotillard syncs with Dardenne brothers on 'Two Days, One Night' 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Murray’s melancholy and existential detachment are still here. Is Bill Murray’s brilliance back? “Rock the Kasbah” could break him out of his brooding on-screen funk 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

“I did not tell a single joke,” he says in a melancholy voice. Patton Oswalt, Morgan Murphy and Others Have Comedy Specials 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

We thought that maybe it should be a ballad so that you deliver this sort of rueful lyric with a melancholy music. How Broadway Got the Beat: The Go-Go’s in 5 Songs 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

With this movie, Judd Apatow shows again that he is interested in a certain kind of male melancholy which can only be evoked by summoning up the music of his youth. This Is 40 – review 2013-02-14T15:29:01Z

The script wasn't vintage noir – there was a martial arts scene – and Garner was not exactly Chandler's Philip Marlowe, but he was droll and melancholy. James Garner obituary 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Slow, reflective and melancholy, it's a strange way for the Avalanches to announce their second album. The Avalanches release first new song in a decade 2012-08-22T11:56:48Z

On Friday he releases the debut album of his orchestra, a seductive record that finds a balance between magnificence and melancholy. The Playlist: Paul McCartney’s Smooth Tunes, and 13 More New Songs 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

These scenes are created with a great moody melancholy, the narrator fully aware how soon they will be over and how they must be secured before they crumble. In a Dying Country, Garth Greenwell’s Narrator Comes Alive 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Cryer and Thompson also inject amusing and melancholy nuances into a pot-smoking scene that shows the fundamental divide separating husband and wife. Theater review: 'Company' 2011-04-08T20:40:13Z

Sexual tensions abound, along with a mood that has been called melancholy or gloomy. John Dunkley, an Outsider Artist Deep in the Heart of Jamaica 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

With a melancholy theme tracing the rise and fall of a love affair, “Pet Sounds” represented the Beach Boys’ coming of age. Brian Wilson bringing ‘Pet Sounds’ tour to Paramount 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

However, beneath the surface there always seemed a hint of melancholy about him. Letters: Diz Disley obituary 2010-05-03T17:38:00Z

Drawing on sources ranging from Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1934 oddity Crime Without Passion to Jonathan Glazer’s uncategorisable Birth, Prevenge managed to be maniacal and melancholy, creepy and funny – often simultaneously. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Trillin respects those who spoke out early, but his book is melancholy on the topic of what happened to many of them. Review: In ‘Jackson, 1964,’ Calvin Trillin Reports on Race 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Your parents are well aware of his lifelong melancholy and tendency to isolate. My Brother Wants Me to Keep His Depression a Secret 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

She knows that the affiliation she’s claiming is unexpected, but what drew her to Pryor was his ability to channel a range of “minor feelings” that included melancholy and shame. ‘Minor Feelings’ Rescues Personal Experience From the Expectations of Others 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

“That apartment is the last part of my relationship with Katja,” he said with a hint of melancholy. Brooklyn’s Favorite Pot Dealer Returns 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

But what’s consistent between his various approaches is his commitment to almost incalculably melancholy production. The Gut-Level Emotions of YoungBoy Never Broke Again 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Even so, Mr. Frost said, there is an element of melancholy in the music that is hard to pin down, given its predominantly placid harmonies. Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

As with the melancholy protagonists in Lerner’s and Porter’s novels, immersion in poetry may increase one’s capacity for eloquence but not necessarily for self-knowledge. 'The Transition' plumbs every poet's worst nightmare: corporate hell 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

This is the sound I hear — full of melancholy and hunger, but also deep pragmatism and wryness. A New Collection Upends Conventional Wisdom About Migration 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

This closeness — and the melancholy lilt of the music — is the draw. Dancing Cheek to Cheek Again: New York’s Tango Scene Rebounds 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

At a synagogue gala in Baltimore in 1947, an irascible veteran from Philadelphia meets a melancholy refugee from France with a fetching accent, a young daughter and a concentration camp tattoo. Michael Chabon Returns With a Searching Family Saga 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Instead of Grand Guignol visions of madness, there is a mood of shuffling, whispery melancholy. | 'It?s Kind of a Funny Story': A Coming-of-Age Tale, Set Among the Sad 2010-10-07T23:19:00Z

But at an emotional level, it’s still a Jayhawks record, with the band’s mix of brightness and melancholy. The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

The film’s Manhattan melancholy is embodied in a slow, sad yet depressingly magical rendition of “New York, New York” performed by Mr. Fassbender’s co-star, Carey Mulligan. 10 Movies That Capture the Essence of New York 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

London to Gaza was a melancholy ballad over bowed bass that became a flat-out group wail. Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble 2010-10-05T21:30:00Z

Yet Sebald has a philosophical élan and transmits a worldly melancholy; his fictions read like prolonged hallucinations. A Biography of W.G. Sebald, Who Transformed His Borrowings Into Lasting Art 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

Dern's Woody, a white-haired, bad tempered old guy living in retirement in Billings, Montana, is withdrawing into a confused and melancholy state. Cannes 2013: Nebraska – first look review 2013-05-23T11:48:28Z

Thus Robinson, with a melancholy smile, creates a new stylistic legacy, and American poetry is ready for the splendid, expansive genius of Robert Frost. Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2010-05-03T10:13:00Z

The series reminds us that depression, like grief, is a painful and common part of the human experience—a reminder that’s melancholy yet comforting, like a walk through a gorgeous old cemetery. “The Great God of Depression,” An Insightful Podcast About William Styron, Writing, and Mental Health 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Has there ever been a romantic comedy with a more melancholy denouement? Purr evil: cats with hidden agendas – ranked! 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Her portrayal amounts to one of the many instances of levity that pare down an atmosphere of melancholy. | ?Any Human Heart?: A Long Life That Peaks Quite Young 2011-02-11T23:18:14Z

The melancholy of Bach’s cantata hides a deeper contentment. Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

But as the story of the vanquished Hatuey was brought to life, the language added a layer of melancholy. Review: Chutzpah? An Afro-Cuban-Yiddish Opera Worth a Schlep 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Just as the flowing notes grew tiresome, a reflective flute cadenza, answered by shuddering strings and melancholy vibraphone, provided a respite. Review | The Knights weave old and new in concert of surprises at Dumbarton Oaks 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

It would be a mistake to call Robert Menasse’s melancholy and satirical “The Capital” a great food novel. ‘The Capital’ Is a Sharp Political Satire About Europe at This Perilous Moment 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

At times, I was tempted to hear a note of parody in the narrator’s relentless melancholy. Review | Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel ‘Whereabouts’ is a delicate exploration of despair 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

English art song's melancholy legacy runs from Dowland through to Parry, Quilter, Vaughan Williams and Warlock and today finds its voice in composers such as Venables. Ian Venables: At Midnight: Songs and Chamber Music 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

From where do postmodern cosmopolitans like Adam and Julius find hope and relief from melancholy? Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

The consistent, haunting melancholy of the music and lyrics — most of them spoken word, with Salvant’s vocals mostly wordless — were communication enough. Ambrose Akinmusire and Cecile McLorin Salvant, perfectly attuned to each other 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Maybe because he thinks he is that melancholy soul whom others find amusingly odd. Robin Williams: The Comic Who Was Hamlet 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Backed by a band that too often mistook lethargy for melancholy, she proved herself to be far more active as an Internet meme than as a human being onstage. Music Review: Lana Del Rey at Bowery Ballroom - Review 2011-12-07T23:04:18Z

His melancholy song about the passage of time, “Raspberries, Strawberries,” was a hit for the Kingston Trio. Will Holt, Who Wrote ‘Lemon Tree,’ Dies at 86 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

A sad song was on the radio as they drove past it, adding to the potential for cinematic melancholy. Everyone Has a Theory About Shopping Carts 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

There’s a wistfulness, a melancholy about this work. Seattle Phil concert focuses on late works by the greats 2013-01-10T22:01:56Z

I Will Make You Sad is a sparse meditation on inevitable disappointment, HNC and her music sounding melancholy but all the while aware that she is the one who is going to let someone down. December's best music from across the MAP 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z

An exemplary chapter, on traveling with Gus, punctuates screwball comedy with thoughtful melancholy. ‘To Siri With Love’: The tale of a mother, a son and a phone 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

It's definitely quite melancholy, which is what I'm drawn to. New band of the day ? No 884: William Basinski 2010-10-11T16:11:00Z

Unlike Coppola’s earlier films, which approach the follies of youth with a sweet sense of melancholy, this one seems to raise a kind of parental alarm. | Lee Radziwill and Sophia Coppola, on Protecting Privacy 2013-05-30T18:00:26Z

The record showcases a singer whose delicate whisper, according to the release notes, masked a debilitating stutter, a fact that adds an element of melancholy to the work. Throwbacks: Reissues from Led Zeppelin, Flesh Eaters and more 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

The emotion was in her sound, which projected, with silvery ease, first relaxed but focused bliss in “Depuis le jour” and then haunting melancholy in the Mozart. Music Review: Metropolitan Opera Auditions Select Five Singers 2012-03-19T21:51:55Z

Mark Oliver Everett’s insular, bookish folk music is consistent in its melancholy. Your week in Seattle music: Eels, Coolio, Metronomy, more 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Despite its melancholy, Where Are We Now? was warmly received by Bowie's fans. David Bowie's producer says new record is 'quite a rock album' 2013-01-09T10:34:35Z

The voice is instantly, almost violently recognizable — aloof, amused and melancholy. Reintroducing Natalia Ginzburg, One of the Great Italian Writers of the 20th Century 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

Luckily, Ms. Lauren navigates the text’s melancholy lulls and harrowing depths with devastating force and even an occasional flash of wit, her regal bearing only gradually giving way to despair. Theater Review: ‘Trojan Women (After Euripides)’ at BAM Next Wave Festival 2012-11-29T22:29:32Z

It serves Mr. Pettibon well, deflecting attention from evidence, in his work and in person, of what seems an essentially inward, melancholy character. Raymond Pettibon: Pictures, Literary Voices and Surfers, Too 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

In both cases, there is plenty for Gunther to be melancholy about. ‘Prussian Blue’: Philip Kerr’s crime fiction at its best 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

The nave has been turned into an elegant, slightly melancholy garden laid out on Wren’s floor plan with bay trees, pink roses and blue irises. The other London underground: See the ancient city that lies beneath the modern metropolis 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

These occasionally strike a melancholy note, as we glimpse cheery faces and festive family photographs that attest to the lives so cruelly cut short. Review: Teenagers Sing to Survive in ‘Ride the Cyclone’ 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

And then melancholy takes over as he realises what he has done: "His eyes look sad." The Inbetweeners: series three, episode five 2010-10-11T21:35:00Z

Mr. Ax aptly illuminated the melancholy quality of the opening tone-row melody and the jagged, colorful harmonies that dominate the work. Music Review: New York Philharmonic and Emanuel Ax Play Schoenberg 2012-10-05T23:16:56Z

Having achieved the absolute peace of nullification, the narrator is beyond melancholy. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

The production opens up a hollow void between throbbing bass tones and just enough single notes to sketch the rhythm and harmony; Thorn’s voice fills it with melancholy longing. Everything But the Girl’s Long-Awaited Return, and 12 More New Songs 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a point of view that registers with antic melancholy in Mr. Radcliffe and Mr. McGuire’s portrayal of the title characters as a comic double act, sealed and doomed in their never-changing routine. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Each petitioner receives a reply, and Sophie decides to answer a melancholy note that has been languishing there for half a century. | 'Letters to Juliet': Amanda Seyfried Helps Reunite Lovers in Verona 2010-05-13T21:17:00Z

It’s joyful, and melancholy and moving, all at once. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z

Half of the Glasgow group’s work is about living with a mild and autumnal kind of melancholy; the other half is about dancing away the depression. A playlist for Salon’s epic New Year’s Eve catharsis party 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

There is also the moving – in fact, melancholy – Barbara Hepworth studio. Art and culture at the British seaside 2011-08-03T11:25:26Z

Each of the main mutants deals with it in a different way: Erik with icy, self-righteous fury; Charles with melancholy humanism; Mystique with an anarchist’s drive to mess things up; Wolverine with world-weary stoicism. Old and New Cast Join in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

It really rocks, and the repeated five- and six-note figures that anchor the anthemic "Rise Above" and the sweetly melancholy duet "No More" have stayed with me. Spider-Man, Finally: On Scene at Opening Night 2011-06-15T08:00:00Z

Solondz described the film - about a college dropout who is a mama's boy - as being imbued with a "kind of melancholy." Todd Solondz leans mainstream in 'Dark Horse' 2011-09-05T18:36:09Z

That fresh perspective is obvious in "Bonsai," which, with its tone that hits the sweet spot between melancholy and humor, is among the loveliest movies at Cannes so far. Chilean film at Cannes celebrates life and books 2011-05-16T18:36:08Z

She’s softly animated and a vivacious storyteller in person, a departure from the melancholy, sometimes hopelessly sad characters she usually plays. Deirdre O’Connell, Theater’s Master of the Melancholy Mom 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

But the result is more melancholy than “Entourage”-ish wish fulfillment. With ‘Dave,’ Lil Dicky ‘Achieved My Destiny’ 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

But they shine in bringing a powerfully dramatic, poetic focus to the piece, an intensely Russian-feeling conflation of melancholy and joy. Dance Review: In London, a Triple Bill From the Bolshoi 2010-08-02T21:06:00Z

Johns painted it in the fall of 1961, a season of melancholy endings. Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Even his melancholy is sweet, a balm for a feeling that’s never anything other than terrible. Demi Lovato’s Anguished ‘Anyone,’ and 11 More New Songs 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

But he then demands “melancholy jazz,” “the spiritual syncopated,” and “gay, martial music.” “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

Back home — “in a fit of melancholy; why did I leave?” he said — he called Slow Food USA to volunteer. Allen Katz Finds Romance in His Food Mill 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

One track, "King of Diamonds," is a folky, slightly melancholy song with light, simple vocals. Motopony on the rise, returns to Seattle 2011-11-17T20:33:07Z

In film as with your own records, your aesthetic is so beautifully melancholy. Lana Del Rey talks about her Globe-nominated 'Big Eyes' title track 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

What I understand about myself and the music that comes out of me is a similar melancholy longing as some of the characters I gravitate towards. "Clean" star Adrien Brody talks "Succession" & daily injustice: "There is a lot to be angry about" 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Introspective and melancholy, the song flickers with a potent combination of regret, revenge and nostalgia. The soulful revenge of "Last Christmas," Wham!'s potent yuletide breakup song 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

Others ramp up their doses of vitamin D. And those with a bit more poetry in their souls just settle into a season of melancholy. Journeys: Correspondents Select Some of Their Favorite Roads 2012-05-20T22:47:22Z

In this movie, there is a melancholy, but there's kind of a wonderful recognition of each other in there, too. Richard Linklater on the enduring appeal of Jesse and Celine 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z

Charisma calls forth a melancholy, a vaguely unrequited feeling. A Gift From the Musical Gods 2011-08-17T14:36:45Z

Conceived and recorded in an abandoned Arctic Circle mining town for which it was named, the album mingles elliptical melancholy with digital-sampling extravagance. Music Review: Efterklang and Wordless Music Orchestra at Met Museum 2012-09-23T21:56:39Z

And in each restroom, a poster of Moaning Myrtle, the melancholy ghost who haunts a Hogwarts bathroom, was there to “silently judge” patrons. Perspective | The bride is a Harry Potter fanatic, and the groom loves her for it. Of course they had a wizard wedding. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

But the laxity and wit in much of this music masks a melancholy. Los Angeles’s Thriving Jazz Scene Produces Four New Albums 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Told that the day’s special at an uptown restaurant is squid ink fettuccine, he says approvingly, “That is the most melancholy pasta.” Review: An Anime New York in Netflix’s ‘Neo Yokio’ 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

But a little haphazard spontaneity might have been welcome in a show that, despite the melancholy bubbliness of the onstage band, consistently failed to register as fresh. Review: ‘New York Animals,’ a Musical About Intersecting Lives 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

In his book, alongside his trademark humor there are flashes of melancholy: The eulogy he gave for Chet Atkins, a remembrance of George Plimpton, fond stories of and for his mother, who died at 97. Garrison Keillor goes from 'Prairie' to L.A. with a new book in tow 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Throughout the album, Letissier’s fantasies of freedom are tinged with a melancholy awareness of limits. France’s Pansexual Pop Queen Arrives 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

“The Nightmare Before Christmas” is returning to the Hollywood Bowl for Halloween, with Danny Elfman reprising his live performance as Jack Skellington, the melancholy Pumpkin King who longs to celebrate Christmas. 'Nightmare Before Christmas' returning to Hollywood Bowl for Halloween, with Danny Elfman 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

It was a somewhat melancholy, noirish evening, one that proved how deeply Kelly can take listeners into the interior life of a song with little more than his supple range and performer’s imagination. | A Performance Artist’s Heartfelt New Persona 2013-06-17T21:00:13Z

And it does so with a songbook so saturated with memories for many who have grown up in France that there is joy — and occasionally melancholy — in simply mouthing along to the lyrics. France Cheers for a Musical It Loves but Hasn’t Watched 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

I feel as if I've sleepwalked invisibly through one of the most melancholy days of my life. A nobody's guide to the Oscars 2010-03-25T21:30:00Z

Lage looks a little like Abraham Lincoln, without quite the melancholy through the eyes. Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge and Their New Record, “Mount Royal” 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Sondheim, being Mr. Sondheim, streaked even the show’s sunniest songs with chilling shadows of melancholy. Theater Review: Sondheim?s ?Merrily We Roll Along? in Encores! Staging 2012-02-09T23:44:16Z

Traditional ways of life, including the traditions of Communism, seem to dissolve into a rootless, melancholy modern existence. At New Directors/New Films, a Glimpse of the Otherworldly 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Yet even when its boys behave badly — really badly — “Dogfight” proceeds in a melancholy, tuneful and slightly hesitant trickle that seems to be apologizing for any unpleasantness. Theater Review: ‘Dogfight’ at Second Stage Theater 2012-07-17T02:00:00Z

The unusual name references a song by the popular Swedish rock band Kent, whose melancholy melodies fill the casual space. 36 Hours in Stockholm 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Listenin' to the Records on My Wall is a loving recreation of early 90s hardcore techno, pitched between euphoria and melancholy. Skream: Outside the Box 2010-08-05T14:30:00Z

Though “Shoot Me” follows the outlines of a cheerful looking-back-on-a-glorious-career documentary, it’s actually quite melancholy in places: Stritch, who struggles with diabetes and alcoholism, is physically much frailer than her wry persona would indicate. ‘Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me’: a bittersweet look back 2014-03-06T20:29:04Z

He nevertheless has, both on screen and in person, a slightly detached, regal quality, a darting, glinting intelligence, and occasionally an air of weary melancholy, all very useful papal attributes. Plum Role: History?s Ultimate Godfather 2011-03-25T20:53:57Z

Returning to their experimental roots – with knobs on – The Terror sees their trademark pop melodies usurped by krautrock and a bleaker psychedelia, beams of sunlight replaced by enveloping gloom to create a melancholy odyssey. The Flaming Lips: The Terror – review 2013-03-28T22:45:03Z

Perhaps more tellingly, even songs with lurking melancholy buck up and stay upbeat. Stop hating on Christmas music: The only thing more predictable than yet another Wham! cover is the backlash 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Once Mr. Murphy’s cerebral, melancholy, exactingly rhythmic songs offered listeners a new language with which to explain themselves: sentimental yet ironic, self-mocking, focused on friends and the complicated wages of adulthood. Pop: James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem: ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ 2012-07-07T04:51:37Z

By that she means foreign musicians and songs that also partake of the melancholy essential to fado. Music: Carving Out a Bold Destiny for Fado 2011-03-25T19:38:43Z

Her program was like her mezzo-soprano voice: a flood of melancholy, molten but articulate. Review: A Molten Song Recital, Without Comic Relief 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

Words from Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” are fittingly evocative: “Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls,/Boils round the naked, melancholy isles/Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge/Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.” In Scotland, a ferry-borne exploration of the Inner Hebrides 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

But more affecting is the melancholy lilt of Chardonnay, the overlooked Hugh Cornwall song Matthews resurrected for her first solo album. Cerys Matthews – review 2012-12-20T18:17:00Z

"I need really depressing, mid-tempo, high-pitched stuff. "I don't think it's as melancholy as the first record. Jessie Ware: 'I sing like a dolphin!' 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Escort may not possess the melancholy or majesty of Chic but they do tap into disco's atmosphere of hedonism undercut by despair. New band of the day: Escort (No 1,506) 2013-05-03T16:34:13Z

Joyce Carol Oates, a novelist whose name is often mentioned as a possible Nobel winner, tweeted: “Ishiguro very deserving. Beautiful melancholy work. Favorite is ‘Never Let Me Go.’ After the Bob Dylan Nobel prize backlash, will honoring Kazuo Ishiguro ‘make the world happy’? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

The museum displays melancholy stone carvings from the priory, and there is a gallery bristling with weaponry and ironmongery. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z

The bouncy second movement had a suitably playful gait; the melancholy third movement, an enticing languor. Music Review: Takacs Quartet Plays Britten and Janacek at Zankel Hall 2012-04-15T18:18:42Z

Given the melancholy nature‎ of the film's subject matter, the intimate songs were natural complements, attempting to enhance the feelings that characters were experiencing on screen. Indie musicians help movie soundtracks hit right emotional note 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

His paintings capture the vitality as well as the melancholy of urban existence. Christopher Martin Hoff show a reminder of talent, loss 2012-08-15T18:57:06Z

Together they blew away the melancholy of the company’s recent retirements — Julie Kent’s, above all — by showing how much there is to marvel at in the present. Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake’ Adds Drama to Romance 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Michael Stipe, loose with whiskey, was in the mood to offer his friends in the cult Brooklyn band, whose records tend to the lugubrious and melancholy, some advice. The National: gloomy ? with a hint of sunshine 2010-04-22T20:30:00Z

The record closed with a showcase for James' most idiosyncratic talent: a stark, piano-based composition that only needed a few quietly-shifting chords to leave "Syro" with an air of melancholy and depth. Aphex Twin's 'Syro' lines up the faithful at Complex in Glendale 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

In this layered, alternately witty and melancholy story, Mallarico sees shadowy apparitions everywhere when he returns to his childhood home in Naples. Review | Jhumpa Lahiri translates another Italian gem into English: Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trick’ 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

The a cappella Christmas hymns sung by students that night were lovely, but the true music of Coimbra is fado, the melancholy music whose local version differs significantly from the better-known Lisbon style. Frugal Traveler Blog: A Portuguese University Town, Both Familiar and Foreign 2012-01-03T21:32:27Z

Yet this pale wraith's signature mood is exquisite melancholy and the evening's apogee is set-closer Strange Weather, a carnal, jazz-inflected lament delivered from the death throes of a love that was always doomed to fail. Keren Ann ? review 2011-04-10T21:15:00Z

The adult’s melancholy reflection and the girl’s swelling impetuousness are flawlessly braided together. ‘The Girls,’ by Emma Cline: Charles Manson, reimagined 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

We ended up breaking it up so that the stuff related to James Gandolfini was in its own section, and that made the book feel very sad and melancholy at the end. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Deep Dive Back Into ‘The Sopranos’ 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

Painted at a time when Hockney was trying to get over a painful break-up, “Beach Umbrella” is rich with sunlit melancholy and suggestion. Staff arts picks 2013-07-24T22:10:39Z

It’s an irresistible mixture of profound thoughts, melancholy confessions and darkly, startlingly funny one-liners. 'Annie' with a bad attitude: 'Hedwig' rocks the Pantages 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

It goes without question that “Cabaret,” a melancholy musical set in a nightclub during the rise of Nazism, wouldn’t be “Cabaret” without Mr. Prince. ‘Cabaret,’ ‘Phantom of the Opera’ and More: Hal Prince’s Hits Transformed Broadway 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

The mood is plaintive, melancholy, verging on fatalistic. Before Midnight: Richard Linklater's search for a happy ending 2013-06-13T17:59:01Z

This bittersweet quartet, written in 1919, balances a melancholy mood with Romantic steaminess and, in the finale, a folksy spiritedness, but Kreisler ties those elements together thoughtfully and, for the most part, satisfyingly. Music Review: ?Quartet Variations? at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-15T21:53:02Z

The veins on the underside of my wrist twanged, a taut pulling of melancholy threads. "The Vanishers:" a troubled psychic probes the past 2012-03-29T20:26:03Z

"I want you to party!" says Bridwell with a grin, before more meekly continuing, "… with some melancholy." Band of Horses – review 2012-11-20T17:50:09Z

All that sweetness would have seemed out of place were it not for Charlie Wilson, who slices through West’s slurry cheer with a melancholy chorus so fragmented you can practically hear the punctuation marks. 10 of Kanye West's Most Inspired Collaborations 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Written and directed by Joseph Mathew-Varghese, who is based in New York, it’s the rare film set in India that speaks the melancholy language of the international art house. | 'Bombay Summer': A Love Triangle Without the Bollywood 2010-10-08T04:33:00Z

Led by red-haired singer-songwriter Florence Welch, English rock and soul band Florence + the Machine offers an ethereal collection of songs on its dreamy, soulful, somewhat melancholy second CD, "MTV Unplugged — A Live Album." Florence + the Machine to rock White River 2012-07-19T20:12:07Z

Their songs — mostly melancholy ballads in the mode of 1980s British New Wave, occasionally cut through by something harder — were not bad. Pierre Rigal Imagines a Pop Concert at the Joyce 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

There was a mournful descending harmonica line, leading into a noble, melancholy string section – huge and sad, it sighed but never sobbed. John Barry: The composer who was as pop as the Beatles 2011-01-31T12:49:27Z

It is a rare art that can marry the melancholy of this to compassion, and resilience and humour. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z

Mr. Geier has mundane tricks and limited physical comedy skills; his special effect is a textured voice laced with melancholy. The Tears (and Fears) of a Clown 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

With the melancholy wisdom of an immigrant, this loquacious fig tree hears the confessions of the grieving, and it recalls the joys and horrors of what happened during those tumultuous years back home. Review | In Elif Shafak’s ‘The Island of Missing Trees,’ a surprising narrator makes sense of surreal events 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

A slowly screeching violin was like a bending branch; the clarinet, a melancholy folk tune performed in its shadow. Planned Before War, a Festival Embraces New Ukrainian Music 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

I doubt that anyone objected to Mr. Ax’s intensely private reading of the waltz, or to the splash of resigned melancholy it added to an otherwise radiant concert. Review: Mostly Mozart’s Opening Concert, With a Chopin Encore 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

This, even more than the indignities of slavery, remained the core of his life’s terrible melancholy. Review | Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, ‘Barracoon,’ finally sees the light of day 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

“Stove League,” partly filmed in the stadium of the SK Wyverns of South Korean professional baseball, is an entertaining soap opera with a melancholy edge. Starved for Sports? Here Are 5 Options That Aren’t N.B.A. Classic 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

The comforting melancholy of the title number, which McKechnie performs with a lovely wistfulness, sets the show's autumnal tone. 'In Your Arms' a pleasing, sketch-heavy dance-musical at the Old Globe 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

The album’s lyrics had a bittersweetness, and the music is a little melancholy, which felt correct to me as a child.” John Mulaney’s Comic Stew: Sondheim, ‘Drag Race’ and Spalding Gray 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

It suggested the continuity of a thread of introverted melancholy running through so much English music over the last 400 years. Mark Padmore 2010-07-19T21:45:00Z

But his melancholy 1970 version of Kris Kristofferson's "For the Good Times" managed to bridge the gulf and it topped the country charts while reaching No. 11 on the pop charts. Country music legend Ray Price dies at 87 - family spokesman 2013-12-17T01:10:07Z

Yet the music is suffused with curious melancholy, suggesting that this young woman has a troubled psyche. Review: Bellini’s ‘La Sonnambula,’ Sung by Promising Young Voices 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

The intersection of historical trauma and individual destiny isn’t an uncommon theme in contemporary cinema, but Almodóvar handles it with characteristic elegance and a profoundly melancholy humanism. The Future of Movies Collides With the Past at the New York Film Festival 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

It is a searing inquiry into loss and a melancholy meditation on mortality and time. Books of The Times: ?Blue Nights,? by Joan Didion ? Review 2011-10-31T18:26:44Z

An empty suburban street seen from above, a slowly sweeping sprinkler, a young boy’s back, the melancholy plink-plunk of a piano on the soundtrack. Review: ‘The Guilty’ Chases a Missing Child Down a Familiar Path 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

This melancholy but resolute track from “Black Panther” faces and overcomes a hero’s self-doubt, in a production that glances back toward Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” while it makes synthesizers sound like African hand drums. The Playlist: The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar Join Forces, and 15 More New Songs 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

The lineup on the first half of the concert included a lively riff on the nostalgic melodies of “Bad Boys” and an enigmatic, melancholy version of “The Izu Dancer.” Music Review: Movies as a Form of Music 2010-12-19T22:31:25Z

“I hope my work is as much about the positive and inspirational aspects of change as it is about loss or melancholy.” Putting Memories to New Use 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

In “North Shore,” which Mr. Bryars arranged for a larger ensemble, a melancholy viola melody unfolded slowly over solitary piano chords. At the Stone, the Flux Quartet Flexes Its Muscles 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Oh, the story is by no means devoid of that melancholy tone: on the contrary. Nimrod's Shadow by Chris Paling 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

While in Chicago, Mr. Obama began writing short stories — melancholy, reflective tales inspired by some of the people he met as a community organizer. Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Writes McNulty: “Thompson shatteringly portrays the melancholy Dane in a boyishly affectionate performance that heightens the plight of a character forced by treacherous circumstances to relinquish his youthful ideals.” Essential Arts & Culture: A censored mural returns, PST: LA/LA is humming, learning from Las Vegas 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

The usual melancholy is there, but so is a wink. Review: Lana Del Rey Wonders ‘Is It the End of America?’ on Her New Album 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Dark doesn’t equal melancholy, she said, “or if it’s melancholy, it’s closer to the melancholia of Albrecht Durer, which is a contemplative state rather than a nihilistic one.” Mark Rothko’s Dark Palette Illuminated 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Bernstein’s score for “To Kill a Mockingbird” exemplifies this principle with lyrical elegance, both in his simple, childlike theme for the film’s protagonist, Scout, and the more mysterious, melancholy orchestral theme for Boo Radley. Is the success of a movie score measured only on screen? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

The movie, by contrast, lingers like a persistent melancholy. T Magazine: The Enduring, Multigenerational Appeal of Justin Timberlake 2013-09-12T11:35:19Z

The cool, vibratoless voice, always on the note, singing without syncopation and with minimal dynamics, conveys an inviolable purity of heart tinged with mystery and a faraway melancholy. 2010-01-30T05:31:00Z

When I entered that trapezoidal classroom on East Ninth Street, I saw a panda man — a large fellow just shy of 40 with sad eyes and an air of genial melancholy. Remembering Andrew Sarris: A Great American Film Critic 2012-06-21T12:39:03Z

He allowed himself to be swept away by the anticipatory flood tide of “Something’s Coming,” from “West Side Story” and to be crushed by the melancholy of “Mood Indigo.” Music Review: Darius de Haas in ‘If Only for One Night’ at 54 Below, 2012-12-05T23:00:46Z

I mean, he’s very bad, but his malevolence is laced with melancholy, and there is a ghastly grandeur to his ambition. ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: It’s Marvel’s Universe. We Just Live in It. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

It's not unique, of course – artists have previously realised that the juxtaposition of cheesy choonage and melancholy is far more depressing than something that Morrissey or Elliott Smith could ever mope into being. Is this the most depressing Europop anthem of all time? 2010-05-06T14:20:00Z

Listen to what Milan Kundera wrote about The Escape, Thirlwell’s previous novel: “A novel where the humor is melancholic, the melancholy mischievous, and the talent startling.” “I do bad sex very well. In life and in the novel form”: Gary Shteyngart interviews Adam Thirlwell 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

But logistics fall away as Ms. Honigmann settles into a kind of ecstatic impressionism, shot through with melancholy. Review: ‘Around the World in 50 Concerts,’ a Documentary, Follows an Orchestra 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

An overwhelming sense of melancholy pervaded the stalls; the dealers seemed resigned to it, as if it were just another occupational hazard, like frostbite. | Orhan Pamuk 2012-10-04T15:00:21Z

Not surprisingly, “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming,” reflects back on his childhood, with a mix of nostalgia and melancholy. M83's Anthony Gonzalez: 'I needed to put myself in danger' 2012-05-02T17:59:00Z

In the second room the tone is more melancholy. Micah Ganske puts feeling into his dystopian vision at 101/Exhibit 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

A rich tapestry of human voices and mostly acoustic, strummed instruments, Fleet Foxes' "Helplessness Blues" channels the majesty and melancholy of Pacific Northwest scenery — and the feeling of Simon and Garfunkel. New CDs: Fleet Foxes' 'Helplessness Blues' 2011-05-02T20:24:05Z

All the uncertainty and melancholy of that period simmers noticeably under the hushed lo-fi sounds of “Rapt.” Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O Gets Intimate on Her Solo Debut 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

But while he didn’t suffer the financial woes and chaos that often plague artistic careers, what he described as his “wretched, uneasy and violent brain” led him to write melancholy, tortured music. Music Review: Saint-Sa?ns and Chausson on Lincoln Center Program 2012-05-21T04:03:04Z

Though the title sounds like science fiction, Ralph Fiennes’ elegantly melancholy “The Invisible Woman” looks not to the future, but to the past. ‘The Invisible Woman’: a Dickens of a love affair 2014-01-23T22:31:34Z

In “The Backstage of the Universe,” his new show at Los Angeles’s Gavlak gallery, Wynne conjures an ethereal wonderland shot through with hints of melancholy and longing. See Artist Rob Wynne’s Works at Los Angeles’s Gavlak Gallery 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

It’s going to be funny, but with bits of horror and melancholy. Alice Lowe: ‘I was terrified that Bill Nighy was going to hate me’ 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

On Sunday she displayed the ease with which she can fill even the vast Met with an encompassing mood: darkly nostalgic and death-haunted, as you’d expect from her melancholy repertory. A Day of Divas 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

Here is the melancholy second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh, which the record’s liner note explains “happily falls short of being a funeral march.” 100 Years of New York Philharmonic Milestones, by the Earful 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Instead, the finale explored something more granular, more melancholy. Losing Her Mind: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Ends with Hope 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Filmed in Los Angeles, but keeping its setting anonymous, this amiable look at life on the margins gradually accumulates a melancholy that punctures the drollness. Review: ‘Hunter Gatherer’ Profiles Two Men Living on the Margins 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Taub writes neat hooks, so when the philosophical clown Jacques opens with a melancholy phrase, the notes stick and a blue mood is set. Review | The hippies are back in Shaina Taub’s musical ‘As You Like It’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Many reviewers noted the melancholy tone of the record and speculated that lyrics like "we argue a lot no matter what we do" indicated further problems in her marriage. Cole's roles 2011-05-05T15:16:24Z

But von Trier, the modern melancholy Dane, finds solace in his affliction. Lars von Trier's Melancholia: The End of the World as He Knows It 2011-11-10T18:07:51Z

His choreography is about the painstaking accumulation of textures through dance, sound, lighting and costume; despite these same tools, “sakinan” lands in a sappy place of melancholy. Dance Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Dances a Work by Christian Rizzo 2014-05-08T20:54:15Z

The melancholy in her songs sometimes surprises Ms. Harris. A LifeDigging For Veins Of Gold 2011-04-24T00:49:06Z

Deakins bathes everything with a soft, warm sense of nostalgia and melancholy, which may seem like an unusual choice given the violent subject matter. 5 examples of cinematographer Deakins' best work 2012-11-08T21:23:14Z

“French elegance, French taste — and French melancholy, that too,” Mr. Brug added. Luc Bondy, Swiss-Born Theater and Opera Director, Dies at 67 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Sonically, the record feels like early Magnetic Fields, in the sense that it’s a luxurious and melancholy homage to early ’80s synth-pop. The 12 best summer music releases you may have missed 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Sure of pitch and elegant in its phrasing, her modest-size voice has taken on a melancholy wistfulness. Mariella Devia Returns to New York in ‘Roberto Devereux’ 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

It was up against four highly praised contenders: Cold War spy drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, slick LA noir Drive, melancholy family drama The Descendants and civil rights issue-flick The Help. Baftas best film: Was The Artist the right choice? 2012-02-13T13:28:00Z

That’s more or less the story of “A Simple Life,” which in its understated, slightly melancholy way considers the varieties of affection and love. Movie Review: ?A Simple Life,? Directed by Ann Hui 2012-04-12T21:40:33Z

His farewell to the happy couples united in the play’s celebratory finale is admirably free of rancor and cynicism — or, for that matter, melancholy. Theater Review: ‘As You Like It,’ With Lily Rabe in Central Park 2012-06-22T02:00:14Z

The melancholy underlying “Dancing in the Dark,” Springsteen’s biggest hit, holds sway in a rendition that is almost dirge-like in its quiet beauty. 'Springsteen on Broadway': A rock-star confessional with heart 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Her unadventurous, middle-class euro zone existence is melancholy in its own way. Movie Review: Miguel Gomes’s ‘Tabu’ 2012-12-25T22:44:18Z

The song's longing and melancholy feel more acute, the equivalent of what it feels like to be outside on a bitterly cold day. The solace of Joni Mitchell's "River," a holiday song that defies merry and bright expectations 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Sex and death are inextricably entwined in "Silent Souls," a melancholy poem to love, loss and the tug of tradition. 'Silent Souls': a tale of memories and longing 2011-10-13T20:14:04Z

GY!BE let loose their political angst as the haunting melancholy of 1997's The Sad Mafioso accompanies blood red images of stock exchange figures and marching protesters. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – review 2012-11-05T19:08:58Z

What begins as a giddy shuffle bursts into splayed reverie, the horns tangling and jousting with Tal Yahalom’s guitar, before the melancholy melody takes hold once again. The Playlist: Mavis Staples Warns of Deadly Force, and 9 More New Songs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

However, he revelled in the incongruity, accompanying exquisitely melancholy tunes with quips about Pimm's and "fascist" prime ministers. Magic Loungeabout festival ? review 2011-08-01T17:36:30Z

His cringe comedy often began as a spoof of the hustle of American entrepreneurs, but invariably spun off into melancholy, oddly poetic moments. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

The film’s blend of curatorial nostalgia and dystopian prophecy captured a mood of self-conscious melancholy in its moment and set a tone of melancholy self-consciousness that has endured ever since. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

If the melancholy saga of Enron proves anything, it is Broadway's irrelevance to serious theatre. Enron's failure shows Broadway's flaws 2010-05-05T12:30:00Z

That means watching the characters grope their way through melancholy, a feeling that doesn't translate to much physical movement and relies on the patient viewer to understand that. "Master of None" returns for an unexpected third season with "Moments in Love" 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z

Ludwig’s fate is a variation on the one faced by Prince Fabrizio, the Sicilian nobleman played by Burt Lancaster in “The Leopard,” who contemplates the arrival of the new order with melancholy acceptance. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Molly Shannon plays a supporting role, as does the melancholy of autumn in New York. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Private Life’ and ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Author David Foster Wallace became one of the most admired writers alive, but the melancholy that ran through the novel never left him: He killed himself in 2008. The genius of “Infinite Jest”: How David Foster Wallace’s masterpiece saved the “big” novel — and why it’s not “a thousand-page suicide note” 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

More importantly, opportunistic bandwagon-jumpers or not, the Bee Gees had an innate understanding of disco's complex emotional dynamic, the undertow of melancholy lurking beneath the dancefloor euphoria: their songwriting had always tended to the lachrymose. My favourite album: the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack 2011-08-02T18:03:22Z

The books' inescapable melancholy is partly her own yearning for lost place and time past. Susan Cooper: a life in writing 2012-12-21T22:54:02Z

Mr. Bazinet, a wiry German with a black leather jacket and a mop of curly hair, speaks in bursts of melancholy and poetic flourishes. Arts & Leisure: How Do You Make a Whole Show Fly? 2011-06-08T12:00:00Z

Miles could prise the most melancholy emotions from Sinatra tunes like It Never Entered My Mind – and that was mainstream stuff. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z

While she comes off as an exhibitionist onstage, in private Ms. Schumer is introverted, sometimes melancholy, with bouts of insecurity occasionally breaking through her acerbic veneer. Amy Schumer’s Comedy Central Show, From the Inside 2013-04-18T12:00:01Z

As I lingered on the sidewalk, a rooster’s crow pierced the heat-induced lethargy of midday and cast a melancholy air. The West Indian Island That Shaped Alexander Hamilton 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Chamberlike and willowy, suffused with melancholy, it reflects her sly noncompliance with jazz and classical conventions, which has been a prevalent theme of her half-century career. Carla Bley, Still Improvising and Inspiring as She Turns 80 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

“He brought up the heaviness of the beat and the grittiness but still brought up the melancholy, the vulnerability and the glitter. We carried on from there.” Danish songstress MO ready to break out in America 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

As they do, Rifkind draws skillfully from multiple sources, expanding her sympathies to include them all — wives and lovers, too — in her melancholy narrative. The Unknown Hostess of 1930s Hollywood 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

A less elevated perspective is enfolded in "sea-washed, sunset gates", a rather mournful image combining the sense of expansive, gently-gilded western horizons with the exile's homesick melancholy. Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z

The sets — based on, and sometimes magnified reproductions of, melancholy ink drawings by the artist Georg Baselitz — are black and white. Review: A Conductor Sets Munich’s Ashen ‘Parsifal’ Aflame 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

For me, that setting added to the melancholy mood, particularly when – as always seemed to be the case when I watched the TV versions – the action unfolded in winter. Why I loved Charlie Brown and the Peanuts cartoons 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

But the songs themselves are loaded with melancholy, the sense that even the best of times with a lover aren’t destined to last. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z

You will also meet eccentric characters possessed by a kind of madcap melancholy, soulful and silly in equal measure. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Is a Complex Caper 2014-03-06T15:00:02Z

Liberties are definitely taken: the intro to one melancholy ballad was unmistakably the guitar intro to Aerosmith’s “Dream On.” Review | Chicago’s Hypocrites bring ‘Pinafore’ to D.C. in their jammies 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The singer, who brought the melancholy music known as "morna" to international audiences and received a Grammy in 2003, was hospitalized on Friday with respiratory failure, heart problems and pulmonary edema. Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora dies at 70 2011-12-18T21:51:35Z

This was gently melancholy, vaguely hopeful music, the kind best listened to while staring through a window at the rain. So Much Traveling, With No Clear Destination 2011-02-11T16:57:37Z

As a result, many of the works exhibited at the Hayward land somewhere between joy and grief, with jubilance and the macabre meeting in a soaring, melancholy overture. ________Stepping Into the Expansive Worlds of Black Imagination 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Rather than use this melancholy to deepen the narrative, the filmmakers soon yank us back to the buffoonery. Review: ‘What We Did on Our Holiday’ Transfers Sitcom Formula to the Big Screen 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

This gallery has one of the most reliably intelligent programs in New York, and currently hosts a melancholy exhibition by the Scottish sculptor Lucy Skaer. 10 Galleries to Visit Now Around SoHo and TriBeCa 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Still, despite some problems with pitch, de los Angeles brings a blend of radiant sound and melancholy to her portrayal. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Stephanie Blythe, Eva-Maria Houben, Nicholas Phillips and More 2014-03-05T17:18:59Z

The delicate melancholy of Schubert’s “Arpeggione” Sonata was invested with great character, highlighting its classical proportions and structural cohesion. Review | Emmanuel Pahud dazzles at Kennedy Center 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z

At other times, if the light on it is a little less bright, it can appear desperately melancholy. Mir?, Van Gogh and Tate St Ives ? the week in art 2011-08-12T08:00:00Z

“There’s a pleasing melancholy about it, I find,” Mr. Esterly said. Antiques: Michael Cardew, British Ceramist, Is Subject of a Biography 2012-12-21T05:27:15Z

“I think he’s melancholy. He’s very, very low right now.” Weinstein stir crazy at New York hospital days after sex crimes conviction, spokesman says 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

“Roadkill” has elements of political satire and conspiracy thriller, but its dominant mode is a kind of melancholy, slow-moving farce. Review: Hugh Laurie Plays a Politician Trying to Avoid Cancellation 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

The colorful liquids flowed through the painting’s raised surfaces like yellow lava, swirling in strange tandem with the oboe’s melancholy tunes. Music Review: Eight Hours of Songs, and Uncounted Influences 2011-02-22T22:18:37Z

JNR Affectionate documentary first aired in 2010 to commemorate the influential jazz pianist, as he looked forward to his 90th birthday, now lent a tint of melancholy by his death last December. TV highlights 25/01/2013 2013-01-24T20:00:01Z

But striking moments develop along the way, jolts of weird joy and melancholy as menace gathers under the Mediterranean sun. 'In the Name of My Daughter' a frustrating, would-be thriller 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Oscar Wilde wrote that "In point of fact, there is no such thing as Shakespeare's Hamlet: there are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies." Hamlet: Dane and dusted 2010-09-19T20:45:00Z

If so many rum cocktails conjure up visions of the playboy Ernest Hemingway, the sunburned bon vivant, this one evokes the Hemingway behind “A Farewell to Arms”: melancholy, romantic, cratered with existential angst. Shaken & Stirred: The Choices? Rum and Rum 2009-12-12T04:54:37Z

A bright Allegro is followed by a meditative slow movement, in which a languid melody is subjected to bouts of dark melancholy. Review: Quatuor Cambini-Paris Revisits Neglected French Composers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

“Mrs. Hemingway” is a melancholy waltz that honors Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley, whom Ms. Carpenter describes as a shadowy figure known only through Hemingway’s depiction of her in “A Moveable Feast.” Mary Chapin Carpenter, Still Storytelling 2010-05-10T21:24:00Z

“In some kind of way I am lost,” Yanya sings with a stirring mix of melancholy and hope on the affecting final track. Nilüfer Yanya’s Music Is a Family Affair 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Like a party thrown by Pippa Middleton, Indigo could be described as "elegantly ravey", but unlike a Pips bash, there's a vague air of melancholy to proceedings. Amelia Lily, Mikky Ekko: this week's new tracks 2013-01-14T06:00:00Z

The poems, set in an idealised English countryside and imbued with a yearning melancholy, struck a chord not just in England but in America. A Worcestershire lad 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

In his “Apple Family Plays and the Gabriels,” the playwright Richard Nelson offered a melancholy hat tip to Anton Chekhov. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

This was the melancholy question that seemed to hang over Thursday night's award ceremony and fundraiser, the fourth annual event held by the Norman Mailer Center. ArtsBeat: Longing for the Good Fight at the Norman Mailer Center Gala 2012-10-05T23:57:00Z

The title - Amy-Blue - and the translucent colours used by Dumas point to the singer's musical influences as much to the melancholy of her life. Amy Winehouse painting acquired for National Portrait Gallery 2012-11-26T17:43:25Z

A melancholy 60-year-old man and his mother dine at the home of a wealthy friend. Review: New Novels by Paul Murray, César Aira and Others 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Later, yards and yards of fabric from Mrs. Dalloway’s much-discussed green party dress billow from high above, turning its wearer into a melancholy figurehead on a ship to nowhere. | 'Septimus and Clarissa': ?Septimus and Clarissa,? an Adaptation of ?Mrs. Dalloway? - Review 2011-09-16T02:01:01Z

The verses, meanwhile, explore the melancholy reticulations of the American landscape, everything from the limits of rural economy to the inevitability of domestic disjunction. Five Songs 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

To temper the melancholy, the music offers sentimentality, in the syrupy 1950s romance that oozes across Surrender's waltzing piano or the title track's country chords. Joshua James: From the Top of Willamette Mountain – review 2012-11-22T21:15:01Z

Veteran voice actor Rupert Degas narrates this wonderful tale in a well-paced, matte-finished voice, nicely capturing the prevailing moods of ruefulness, melancholy and gentle comedy. Review | Update your playlist with these great new audiobooks 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

To accompany his melodramatic apocalypse fantasy, Mr. Whitacre concocted an eclectic mix of whooshing synthesizers and thumping techno beats, accented by two taiko drummers and rich, melancholy contributions from a splendid cellist, Fang Fang Xu. Music Review: Eric Whitacre and His ?Paradise Lost? at Carnegie 2010-06-16T20:23:00Z

Her and Schwartzman’s characters spend the movie’s running time trying to get their uptight guests to embrace their inner hedonists, but Godrèche brings to her performance both a sense of mystery and of melancholy. Meet Judith Godrèche, the Surprise Comic Standout From The Overnight 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The music seems to wrap around and subtly trail off the words; the lucid orchestra is neither bullying nor reticent, producing an atmosphere of gnomic, melancholy beauty. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Flemming has a wry, melancholy manner, and Bamba has a tragic back story, but he also functions more as a symbol than a fully formed character. ‘Fear’ Review: Stranger in a Strange Land 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

The only vocalist who manages to stand up to the force of Guetta’s production is Sia, back for another few rounds after “Titanium,” who carries “Bang My Head” and the melancholy closer “The Whisperer.” Review: David Guetta Falls Behind His Contemporaries on Listen 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

It’s melancholy, and sometimes it swings like hell, or it sounds so tough. Nick Waterhouse finds the right musical language 2012-10-04T16:30:00Z

But then much of Tetzlaff’s documentary, recently restored and receiving its first theatrical run in New York, casts an aura — admiring and melancholy — around Robeson to the detriment of a more shaded portrait. ‘Paul Robeson’ Review: A Tribute to an Entertainment Titan 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z

Such presiding melancholy has motivated Eliza Bozek, 30, and a cadre of other young musicians to get to glaciers now, not later. The Poignant Music of Melting Ice 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

As the priest walks away from the crowd, he radiates melancholy and a world of worries. Why I'd like to be … Jason Miller in The Exorcist 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

But even when the piece swings, it has a solemn, even melancholy cast — prayerful more than hopeful. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

In Figaro, it's a helpful collective that even includes the young bride Susanna; but at its centre stands the melancholy figure of the Countess, ignored by a husband she still loves. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

Re; Chris Hemsworth--"he does have.. a natural pensiveness bordering on melancholy that creates a nice frisson with his bulging muscles and heartthrob looks." ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

I know that’s startling for some people to hear — we are conditioned to speak about abortion with reverence and a bit of melancholy, if we speak about it at all. After my abortion I felt relieved — and I’m in the majority 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

It’s either meta or melancholy that the show built around that premise is an entirely traditional sitcom. A Chill in the Air? Stay Inside and Watch TV 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

But it is the police detective's own dogged nature and melancholy spirit that drive him on. Start the year in crime with Agatha Christie's children 2011-01-06T00:05:04Z

He likes the stripped-down highway movies of the 1960s and ’70s — the kind that Quentin Tarantino celebrated in “Death Proof” — and also the atmospheric masculine melancholy associated with Michael Mann. | 'Drive': ?Drive,? With Ryan Gosling - Review 2011-09-15T22:55:25Z

Vying against “A Star Is Born” and the blockbuster “Bohemian Rhapsody” as best drama contenders will be the superhero smash “Black Panther,” the melancholy “If Beale Street Could Talk” and Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman.” ‘A Star Is Born’ and ‘Vice’ Lead the 2019 Golden Globes Nominations 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

The diminishment of the middle class is the great subject of this oddball series, a melancholy hour-long comedy that tries to be philosophical about feeling gloomy. “Lodge 49,” Reviewed: Channelling Pynchon to Capture California’s High Hopes and Deep Loss 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile the engaging melodies hold lyrics tinged with melancholy and disillusion. Straddling the Border, Eccentrically 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z

The other strand that seems to run through Greig's work, especially the comic roles, is a sense of melancholy. Tamsin Greig: 'I always think I'll never work again' 2011-03-03T21:00:01Z

A backdrop of verdant hills and melancholy sculpture should underscore Wilder’s exploration of life’s beauty and its evanescence. Spare Times for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

The soundtrack strives for a quirky, melancholy resonance befitting its tragic subject, but too often it comes off as gimmicky and ponderous. Album review: Damon Albarn, 'Dr. Dee' 2012-05-07T15:28:00Z

Byrne included his own version of the song, a melancholy anthem about a weary worker. Afro-Peruvian rhythms featured at Howard Theatre

Louis C. K., on his television projects and in his stand-up, tends to work on the blue end of the spectrum, trafficking in melancholy as well as profanity. Review: ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ Amuses, but Misses Opportunities 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

The Circus, ITV1's new documentary series, is a gentle and gently melancholy look at Paulo's Circus, one of the few remaining traditional setups left in the country – if not, it appears, for terribly much longer. The Circus – review 2012-06-30T06:00:01Z

Whiteness, in this sense, is defined by absence, the missing faces of people of color, with the exception of Native Americans, who are seen as allegorical types, melancholy embodiments of a prelapsarian America. Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

If This Is Homeby Stuart Evers In fact, the pervading air is one of quiet melancholy and disappointment. If This is Home by Stuart Evers - review 2012-07-14T23:05:50Z

One of Fellini’s truly great films, with a fierce note of melancholy and even tragedy that is perhaps atypical of him. All Federico Fellini's films – ranked! 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

He concludes “Wild Things” on a melancholy note, admitting that his foray into children’s literature allowed him more than a simple chance to re-encounter the favorite books of his youth. A Personal, Breezy Tour of Classic Children’s Books 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Seliger, 54, said he started writing country songs in the late 1990s to stave off melancholy and artistic angst as his tenure as the chief photographer for Rolling Stone was winding down. Mark Seliger’s Career as Frontman of Rusty Truck 2013-08-05T21:20:25Z

There’s also something melancholy about the idea of simulated life: the thrill of achievement is compromised by the possibility that everything has already happened to our descendants. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Instead of the usual tone of nostalgic melancholy, her version of “That Old Feeling” conveyed a bounce of anticipation. 2010-01-08T04:07:00Z

The book’s subtitle is “a self-mythologizing memoir,” but really it is a spiritual text about wonder, melancholy and fame, and how being a movie star is “either too boring or too much work.” Parker Posey is really pleased to meet you. Yes, you. No, really. 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Written with de Botton's customary humor, grace and melancholy, "Religion for Atheists" may not always convince. Alain de Botton's 'Religion for Atheists' 2012-03-08T21:57:05Z

But I also liked, a lot, Mad Men’s season 3, which until its office-Ocean’s-Eleven finale turned off some fans with its slow pace and melancholy. TV Weekend: Mortality (and Reefer) In the Air for Mad Men’s Return 2013-04-04T16:43:30Z

Transforming an actual chunk of local real estate, it blossomed in the iridescent, melancholy beauty of "Watts Riot." Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

For uncomfortable conversations, melancholy and a constant tightening of the narrative toward very personal consequences, go with “Next of Kin.” The Mideasterner, TV’s Most Flexible Genre 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Not when the music is this fine, this suffused with springtime sorrow and the melancholy promise of expectations dashed. New band of the day ? No 759: Faded Glory 2010-04-01T09:38:00Z

A new café and antiques shop has opened near where I live, its name echoing the melancholy shiver of the lost-and-found photograph: Outdated. Why do we love to look at strangers’ family photographs? 2013-04-11T16:58:00Z

That persona is a perfect fit for her melancholy ballads, which usually tend more toward torch songs than pop anthems and are more rock than country. Americana cavalcade ? Neko Case, Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss 2011-06-29T23:36:04Z

His best-known painting was an outlier among his works, which more often exuded melancholy and resignation, like the ones now at the Met Breuer and Scandinavia House. When It Comes to Contemporary Art, Miami Wants More, More, More 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Playing with crystalline clarity and a rhythmic buoyancy that highlights the works’ dance elements, Mr. Schiff reveals the contrapuntal brilliance and the joy, wit and melancholy of these 24 preludes and fugues. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z

Mr. Barnett-Hart played with tender melancholy the forlorn opening melody of Schubert’s “Rosamunde” Quartet, which reflected the composer’s unhappiness at the time of composition. Music in Review: Performances by Sasha Cooke, Escher String Quartet and Ensemble Signal 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

The aesthetics of indie: the longing for a golden age, the melancholy, poverty chic, and the overall values of simplicity, autonomy and austerity. Ask the indie professor: Why are there so many white indie bands? 2011-01-04T13:10:38Z

Without Jack Black, this ode to music would have been a touch too melancholy. The many types of romantic-comedy best friends 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

A certain melancholy comes from knowing that this kind of near-extinct figure was a product of the cinema, a space that many directors have now left for TV. Does Andrea Arnold's experience on Big Little Lies suggest that auteurs are doomed? 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Day-Lewis composes a symphony of moods: sardonic, melancholy, inspired, impatient. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

Baroque concepts of melancholy embraced not only what we would classify as depression, but also a series of emotional responses to ideas of mortality, mutability and transience. Andreas Staier: Pour Passer la Mélancholie – review 2013-03-07T21:30:01Z

By the 17th century, the rich took milk in huge quantities to address ailments from melancholy to bowel complaints. Milk: A Local and Global History by Deborah Valenze ? review 2011-07-29T23:08:16Z

The film might be disingenuous, but at least the melancholy is real. "The Expendables": Death of the old-school action hero 2010-08-13T11:01:00Z

On “Wary + Strange,” she depicts a nightmarish netherworld of abandonment by spectral women — her mother; a lover — and a self-aware descent into melancholy, boozy depths. Amythyst Kiah Found Her Powerful Voice. Now She Has a Sound to Match It. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Garage was a melancholy character study about a jovial attendant at a rundown rural petrol station, whose developmental difficulties prevent him from seeing that his entire way of life is doomed. Lenny Abrahamson: 'Good guys can be complex too' 2013-01-03T17:00:01Z

Like the little-reported thinness of her funeral crowds once you got a few hundred yards away from St Paul's Cathedral, some sides of the Thatcher story are melancholy rather than inspiring, even for rightwingers. Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris – review 2013-04-24T12:57:02Z

From a melancholy opening filled with swooping glissandos, the 20-minute string quartet emphasizes group virtuosity with jagged bursts of notes deployed in rhythmic unison, mostly at high velocity. Critic?s Notebook: Avoiding ?Moderato? Becomes a Style 2011-04-17T22:15:36Z

Paris, golden and gray, breezy and melancholy, immune to its own abundant clichés and gorgeously shot by Darius Khondji, certainly helps. | 'Midnight in Paris': Kicking the Old Ennui With the Lost Generation 2011-05-19T14:22:17Z

Every word needs to be understood, so that the amiable music can make its melancholy point. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

I’ve rarely felt such melancholy at the end of a rehearsal period. Learning 'Lear': Time to Leave the Nest 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The work sometimes feels dated, but Honegger’s sound combinations are consistently savvy: melancholy trumpet and double bass, winsome soprano and flute. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z

In another installation, "Surround Me," six recordings of Philipsz singing melancholy English songs from the 16th and 17th centuries are being played through Jan. 2 in lonely alleys and streets in London's financial district. Hear that? Latest Turner Prize winner is music to the ears 2010-12-11T20:50:00Z

For about two days I did nothing but listen to melancholy pop songs and drink. World Book Day: Michael Grant Gone game exclusive code! 2013-03-07T11:00:00Z

Set to melancholy music, the narrator takes our acquiescence for granted. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

I admire people who make great melancholy melodies, but if I get one it’s because I’ve stumbled upon it. Kim Gordon: ‘I'm not a badass, whatever that means’ 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

When I suffered the unremitting melancholy brought on by teenage angst, my mother ran to her mother for solace. Motherlode Blog: The Grandparents of 9/11 2011-09-12T21:11:01Z

In the novel, Charyn leaves his melancholy Salinger unfinished in a similar way. Review | By the end of 2020, we were supposed to have more J.D. Salinger. Instead we have ‘Sergeant Salinger.’ 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

What else is the work but a melancholy longing for a time before a bloody massacre? Review: ‘Ghosts’ of the Guillotine Reunite at Versailles 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Other photographers may linger on the mystery of a stranger’s gaze, or its melancholy transience. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Listeners please note: There is beauty and soulful enrichment in melancholy. Review: Low continues to soar on 'Invisible Way' 2013-03-18T21:54:12Z

Mr. Arjona is one of Latin pop’s finest lyricists: observant, nuanced, sometimes wry, sometimes melancholy and especially fond of the play of opposites. Music Review: Ricardo Arjona at Madison Square Garden 2012-02-28T00:01:48Z

Fleeting moments of suspense or melancholy are undermined by Cioma’s unremitting insouciance — no matter the situation, he wears a smirk — and a series of underwritten relationships muck up the narrative rather than enrich it. ‘The Forger’ Review: Hiding in Plain Sight 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The Fourth is steeped in Viennese Classicism, and yet it maintains a slight ironic distance from that tradition, a melancholy detachment. In Search of Charisma at the New York Philharmonic 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

The game’s stark, melancholy music is as much a storyteller as the occasional snippet of exposition. Video Games: Reviews: Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, FarmVille 2: Country Escape and Monument Valley 2014-04-22T20:57:56Z

Playing Batman as melancholy and middle-aged was certainly not the safe choice. Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Keaton gives a profoundly moving double-edged performance as a tersely melancholy has-been and, in flashbacks to the freewheeling days of slapstick silent short films, as the blank-faced, mercurially acrobatic master of uproar. A Nineteen-Fifties TV Series That Let Directors Run Free 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

He engagingly conveyed every nuance, from the sighing gestures — played here with a rich, melancholy tone — to the aggressive outbursts. Music Review: A Composer Who Rolled the Dice 2011-01-30T22:07:57Z

One of her first outside performances was on “The Dean Martin Show,” when she performed the melancholy ballad “Little Girl Blue.” Actress Rose Marie of ‘Dick Van Dyke Show’ fame dies at 94 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

But there are no people here, no machines, so it’s framed by a palpable melancholy on a February day. Music: Echoes of Another Time and Place 2011-02-18T20:45:34Z

These songs are spare and full of free-flow musings, recalling the more melancholy side of the Sarah Records catalog, and the awkward angularity of Beat Happening and its K Records compatriots. Music Review: Frankie Cosmos, at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn 2014-04-29T20:04:42Z

The book was a successful, melancholy meditation on America’s lost manufacturing base, the erosion of a shared sense of national purpose, and one middle-class man left adrift. North to Alaska in Dave Eggers' new 'Heroes of the Frontier' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

All those events, while sometimes shot through with melancholy, were celebratory in spirit. Shut by Virus, Met Opera Announces Starry ‘At Home’ Concert 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

His brother sang the lead parts in a melancholy timbre and played guitar. Ralph Stanley, Whose Mountain Music Gave Rise to Bluegrass, Dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

But loss, melancholy and darkness pervade even the most lighthearted stories in the new collection. Review | Ruth Prawar Jhabvala’s stories capture an India that no longer exists 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

There’s wonder and melancholy in every indescribable sequence, a window into the past made strangely clearer by its corrosion. The best films of 2017 … that you didn't see 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

Smiley, a Pulitzer Prize winner for "A Thousand Acres," takes a melancholy, pensive tone here: Margaret's fate is anything but happily-ever-after. 'Private Life': Jane Smiley's quiet novel of a Midwestern girl's odyssey 2010-05-05T22:35:00Z

At their best, Ehrlich’s reminiscences carve a melancholy track, depicting the disastrous losses, human and otherwise, that accompany global warming. A Memoir That Sees Only the Tip of the Melting Iceberg 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Despite their discovery, the remainder of the journey was tinged with melancholy. A Road Trip That Ended in Love 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

There, they recorded a debut album filled with melancholy songs, many about the recent demise of Mr. Leon’s marriage. James Truman, A Crown Prince in a New Kingdom 2013-08-16T21:00:35Z

His portraits revealed the drama and comedy of the everyday, exhuming unsentimental levity from the melancholy, or hüzun, that Pamuk attributed to modern Istanbul. What Ara Güler, “The Eye of Istanbul,” Saw in His Homeland 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

Anyone who doubted that watercolour was able to achieve intimations of the sublime so central to the romantic project had only to look at what Girtin – who died at a melancholy 27 – achieved here. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

Yet her stories are instantly gripping and highly evocative, conjuring scenarios at once weird, mundane, melancholy and comical. Diane Williams is at her unconventional best in 'Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine' 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

His voice lends itself to self-searching melancholy, in marked contrast to that of his brother, who appears to think self-searching is something you do in front of Babestation TV while the wife's out. Noel Gallagher | Pop review 2010-03-26T21:30:00Z

Frøkedal’s songs are wise, assured, beautiful, a tonic, like love intermingled with a bit of melancholy. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

I asked her about the mood of the songs, which is warmly melancholy, the way Elliott Smith’s songs often were—generous, not sombre. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

“Fake Smile” takes a different approach to the same idea, opening with the same melancholy soul sample used in the Wu-Tang Clan’s “Tearz”; its rough-hewed urgency is threaded throughout the rest of the song. Ariana Grande Is Living a Public Life. The Real Reveals Are in Her Music. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Realizing she was turning melancholy, she sought to bulldog through it. Krisha Fairchild is a breakout star - at age 64 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

"On the one hand, I'm proud of my heritage and my melancholy, pugilistic people. On the other hand, is there anything about the way the holiday is celebrated in the U.S. that isn't just . . . gross?" Baileys, Jameson and plenty of greens: 5 of our favorite St. Patrick's Day recipes 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The melody is full of heartbreak, loss and regret, but the song is too beautiful to be entirely melancholy. ‘Marriage Story’ Review: Dance Me to the End of Love 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Much of the language is retrospective in gaze and melancholy in tone. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Or they don’t think the subject matter — the fiery singles or melancholy post-divorce tracks — will connect with their target listener demographic, moms in their mid-30s. Miranda Lambert is a superstar. But can she get a No. 1 on country radio only if she sings with a man? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

They also had a penchant for minor keys that lend a melancholy tinge, even while the songs dance ahead. New Music: Albums From Moon Honey, Peter Walker and Angola Soundtrack 2013-12-30T22:16:58Z

And if no one is likely to approach the melancholy comic genius of Barbara Harris, the original star, Ms. Errico gets more out of Daisy than the passivity of the role might suggest. Review: ‘On a Clear Day,’ Eternally Odd, Gets Yet Another Life 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a happy marriage, in other words, though one that is touched with midlife melancholy. Review: ‘Private Life,’ a Piquant Look at a Couple’s Campaign to Conceive 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

There is an indescribable depth of melancholy in his vocal. Some of Us Are Haunted by Washington Phillips 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Grief, melancholy, missed chances for personal happiness often seem to be contemporary literature’s concept of evil. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Just because she doesn’t have a picturesque version of melancholy doesn’t make it any less real or any less deserving of compassion. Review: ‘A Really Good Day,’ Ayelet Waldman’s Better Living Through LSD 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Manohla Dargis’s take: “Part of the mystery is that it’s unclear what kind of story this is and where — with its charming child and restrained melancholy — it could be headed,” our critic wrote. The Best Films of 2022, So Far 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

And as befits a record about grief — her husband died tragically two years ago — this was a night of melancholy. Corinne Bailey Rae casts a mournful spell at Seattle's Moore Theatre 2010-04-13T17:52:00Z

With melancholy lyrics, delicately blended voices and careful, often Baroque-tinged productions, their songs offered yearning and solace in psychedelically turbulent times. How the Bee Gees Stayed Alive 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

So I’m surprised when he volunteers that Wick’s melancholy possibly has a connection to some of the most painful moments in his life. Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss, those things don’t ever go away’ 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

Lush, melancholy ballads like Am I Forgiven and Take Me As I Am propelled the album to number three in the UK charts, and earned the singer two Brit Award nominations. Rumer's new musical direction 2012-05-30T11:31:09Z

It was performed by Mr. Sauer and the violinist David Bowlin, who spun out the melancholy melody with a rich, alluring tone. Music Review: Beethoven Institute at Mannes College the New School for Music 2013-06-02T22:12:04Z

This invitation to indulge in what Guadagnino has called “the melancholy of lost things” extends not only to nostalgic fiftysomething gay men, but to anyone with a love affair in their past worth remembering. Why Call Me By Your Name should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

The cutting here is meticulous but leisurely; the mood is one of restless melancholy. 2009-12-28T01:20:00Z

An eccentric who lost the spotlight, Mr. Chappelle presents himself pointedly as melancholy, a little in turmoil. Dave Chappelle Returns to Stand-Up, With Stories to Tell 2013-08-15T11:55:00Z

It still takes such a hold of you when you're listening to it, with the touches of melancholy in Carly Simon's haunting vocals mixing with the mystery required of any great Bond tune. The best of Bond in 007 categories 2012-10-02T15:47:08Z

It is obviously an intensely personal film, flawed in some ways, with some plot issues, but acted with integrity and openness, and made with courage and a sense of melancholy in exile. I Am Nasrine – review 2013-06-13T21:30:31Z

Before we left the room, he said, “I hope I wasn’t too melancholy or sad,” and showed me a picture on his phone: Cora. Jon Hamm’s Second Act 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Gaillard's camera lingers over cityscapes gone to seed, a 20th century equivalent of the melancholy ruins painted by artists such as Piranesi. Artist of the week special: Loris Greaud, Cyprien Gaillard, Tatiana Trouv? 2011-03-23T16:12:48Z

What you remember may not be pictures or ideas so much as his voice, roughened by age and tobacco, fragile but still hectoring, melancholy and indomitable. ‘The Image Book’ Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

“I tend to listen to Townes when I’m feeling melancholy,” Ms. Jones said. Texas Monthly: Norah Jones Lists Her Favorite Music 2012-01-01T01:20:07Z

In short, we want a beer that will get us buzzed, render us free of melancholy, or, hopefully, will taste just as pumpkin-y as a pie. Seasonal Suds: Rating 11 Fall Beers 2013-10-08T09:45:51Z

And now comes an album of the Britten and Rutter works and a few other carols, the last of Mr. Scott’s many recordings, bringing tidings of melancholy and joy. Classical Playlist: John Scott, Mozart and Ryan Wigglesworth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

“The opening number is a perfect example of that dichotomy, because on the face of it it’s a very exciting, happy song, but there’s a lot of melancholy in it as well,” he says. An Inside Look at 'La La Land's' Boldest Musical Number 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

He posted a letter on his website, saying that watching the film made him “very uncomfortable”; that he’d found it “oddly intrusive and melancholy.” SXSW: Russell Brand a no-show for a documentary about him 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

But this movie has none of the titillation or theatrical kills of a slasher picture; it’s deliberate, melancholy and deceptively layered. Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

‘Indian Summer’ Two mismatched teenagers — nicely played by Owen Campbell and Elise Kibler — form an unlikely intimacy in Gregory S. Moss’s melancholy and rather wan comedy-drama, set on a Rhode Island beach. Theater Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Although his films range widely in their idiosyncratic themes and settings, they are of a piece in their serene melancholy and their loving attention to the unruly details and irreducible dimensions of individual lives. ?Letters From the Big Man,? Starring Lily Rabe 2011-11-04T22:01:54Z

Instead, he is content to deliver extended shots and images that are achingly melancholy, and teasingly cluttered. Review: ‘Kaili Blues,’ a Dreamy Trek With Otherworldly Beauty 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Some readers may agree, and wish for a return to the days when the melancholy adventures of a single immortal denizen of the night were enough to power a novel. Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles is looking a little long in the tooth 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The Russian inflections in the choreography – the fusion of melancholy and boisterousness – are bred in the bones of this cast. Bolshoi: Russian Seasons 2010-07-30T20:31:00Z

Early in Elif Batuman’s funny and melancholy first book, “The Possessed,” she describes her disillusionment, as a would-be novelist, with “the transcendentalist New England culture of ‘creative writing.’ ” 2010-02-16T22:32:00Z

"It catches perfectly the play's melancholy and preoccupation with time, transitoriness and loss," says our own Michael Billington, "even if it cannot efface golden memories of the one he did at Stratford in 1958." What to say about ... Twelfth Night 2011-01-20T17:11:23Z

As Mr. Maxwell reminds us, that’s a large part of the melancholy beauty that makes theater itself so precious. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z

Photograph: David Livingston/Getty Images A melancholy history of Hollywood recounted in terms of the offspring of its greatest personalities would reveal a litany of also-rans, failures and addicts. Letter: Harry Carey Jr and the golden era of American cinema 2012-12-30T18:01:33Z

The series never really develops any characters outside the central pair — it only has eyes for them — and the last third or so feels slack, moping from one flavor of melancholy to another. ‘Normal People’ Review: Their Love Will Tear You Apart 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

That song and Mr. Cohen’s “Everybody Knows” delivered a tone of jaunty sarcasm that define the theme of a mostly downbeat show whose underlying melancholy is contradicted by Ms. Jungr’s enthusiasm. Music Review: Barb Jungr’s ‘Dancing in the Dark’ Combines Rock and Cabaret 2013-12-25T21:52:35Z

The events of that summer of 1924 are magical and melancholy because, even as Gatsby took shape, other things began to fall apart. Review | Did an extramarital affair inspire ‘The Great Gatsby’? One book tries to make the case. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

But it's every bit as serious an investigation into what might be called the melancholy of everyday life. Top-notch 'Stupid ... Bird' zings with audacity 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Ethan Hawke, with somber countenance and a heavy mustache, plays Tesla as a restless soul burdened by genius and haunted by melancholy. ‘Tesla’ Review: Lightning Strikes, but Quietly 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Jaar has talked about his desire to create "rhythmic anguish": music that you can dance to, with uncomplicated joy, but which is full of melancholy "above the bass". Does Nicolas Jaar's music defy description? 2010-09-01T15:22:00Z

All his musical styles are audible in this rhapsodic score, from the serenity of Greensleeves to the tugging, modal harmonies of the Fifth Symphony, to the solo viola melancholy and ethereal chorus of Flos Campi. The Pilgrim's Progress; Total Immersion: Knussen at 60 – review 2012-11-11T00:05:45Z

The humor is self-defeating, though, since this wheezy romantic caper — with Tommy Lee Jones and Morgan Freeman as the rival suitors — inspires little more than melancholy reminiscences of Mr. Shelton’s earlier work. Review: ‘Just Getting Started’ Has Big Names, Not Big Laughs 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

In Mr. Sparks’s soft-spoken performance, Ray lives in a melancholy limbo between searching for redemption and being reconciled to its impossibility. Paul Sparks Hones Tragic Persona in ?Dusk Rings a Bell? 2010-06-19T06:39:00Z

Assuming the rest of the season is as sharp, witty and melancholy as the four episodes made available for review there's no reason to worry about where it's headed. "Insecure" to the end: Issa Rae's groundbreaking comedy sails into its final season 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

Love and death, body and spirit, overload and austerity, propulsion and meditation, desire and renunciation, fear and strength, joy and melancholy, existence and oblivion all figure in the songs on “No Shape.” Perfume Genius Grows Brasher and More Introspective on ‘No Shape’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Harris begins on a personal note, with an anecdote about his father, depicted in old snapshots as a handsome man with a distinctly melancholy, distracted air. ‘Through a Lens Darkly,’ on African-American Photography 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

He explores the disappearance of his beloved mother, recounts the death of one of his own children and has a melancholy return to Tokyo, where, post “Death,” he had pop music stardom foisted on him. ‘The Most Beautiful Boy in the World’ Review: A Cautionary Tale 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Brazil’s signature contribution to world culture is its popular music, and the characteristic mood of that music is the melancholy yearning called saudade. Even on NBC, Rio’s Colors Can’t Be Airbrushed Out 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

Rhys Ifans, who plays the Earl of Oxford, is a touching picture of aristocratic melancholy, his long face and hooded eyes suggesting the weariness of a decent, disappointed soul. Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z

Surprisingly, for a piece that is essentially about the big emotions of youth, the opera is full of melancholy. Eugene Onegin: unchain my heart 2013-01-02T19:30:04Z

Those pastel pinks that mold and mottle, from forced happiness to sweet melancholy. Life in Miami on the Knife’s Edge of Climate Change 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Just as the human body needs certain crucial vitamins for balanced nourishment, so the reading soul demands regular doses of melancholy. Nimrod's Shadow by Chris Paling 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

The first, in F minor, is darkly melancholy, with a lyrical undercurrent that Ms. Lane projected beautifully. Music Review: Sacred Works by Pergolesi at Church of the Epiphany 2010-03-29T21:11:00Z

As Paul’s career goes on without going forward, the film takes a turn toward melancholy that seems at odds with its endless nights of parties and nightclubs. Toronto Film Festival: Mia Hansen-Løve finds 'Eden' 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

A lot of movies are described as “a ride,” but Hamaguchi’s melancholy masterwork, where the opening credits arrive 40 minutes in, earns that label in its own uniquely winding way. ‘Lost Daughter,’ ‘Licorice Pizza’ top AP’s best 2021 films 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Like 'Hard Times,' there's a very particular kind of melancholy in that song. Gillian Welch ? worth the 8-year wait 2011-07-13T23:59:03Z

Other highlights are the melancholy paintings of George Shaw, shortlisted for this autumn's Turner prize.• Toulouse-Lautrec, Mantegna and Therrien ? the week in art 2011-08-19T08:00:00Z

Schumer takes the genre in her own direction, though, by welding together its usual narrative — the melancholy story of self-discovery — and her preferred mode in films, the bawdy, ugly duckling romantic comedy. ‘Life & Beth’ Review: Further Inside Amy Schumer 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The Weeknd became a star with melancholy confessions about his self-destructive tendencies. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Yet the painter knew that Beth B’s talent for revealing the melancholy truths beneath life’s placid veneer was learned at the foot of the master. She’s Her Own Artist. And a Daughter’s Muse. 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

The static of the radios, like surface noise from an old LP, added to the melancholy, as did the juxtaposition of their scratchy faintness and Mr. Herbert’s hearty yet poignantly isolated presence. For the Solstice, a Bach Appearance on the G Train 2012-12-23T22:44:46Z

Keaton’s smooth brow and melancholy deadpan, customarily shadowed by a porkpie hat, express an ingenious, innocent determination to surmount whatever obstacles the universe imposes. Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Yet what’s really special about this book is that it demonstrates what a melancholy baby this poet is, in all the best ways. Review: Charles Simic Displays a Poet’s Voice and His Passions 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

The main themes are for piano, strings and saxophone and they are there to carry the wistful ideas of melancholy and nostalgia. Ennio Morricone: a composer with a thrilling ability to hit the emotional jugular | Peter Bradshaw 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

Saudade is a Portuguese word that is similar to nostalgia, but more weighted with melancholy. Actor. Lawyer. Lover of the arts. Her uncle defied category. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Even a melancholy number described by Mr. Smith as “if Kurt Weill had been born in West Texas” was deeply affable. Music Review: Swing That?s Smoked and Saucy and Will Stick 2011-01-07T23:26:43Z

As he has explained in interviews, Mr. Carsen thinks Verdi’s great comic opera is overcast with melancholy. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z

Something lands with an almighty splash in this calm millpond of melancholy regret. Poetry ? review 2011-07-28T21:25:01Z

I wanted the atmosphere to carry the beautiful melancholy that was so powerful in the first movie. Denis Villeneuve Proved to Us He Loves 'Blade Runner' More Than Anybody 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters Once, the intimate and melancholy bar-room musical that has charmed Broadway audiences and critics, took top honours at the in a night of upsets at the annual US theatre industry bash. Tony awards 2012: Once scoops nine awards on night of upsets 2012-06-11T05:13:00Z

Sample lyric: “The melancholy face is an analogy now the hat that’s worn is like a horse track.” Music: The Midlife Thing, the Nightmare Thing 2011-02-24T21:48:04Z

I do a really slow version of Tom Petty's You Got Lucky – it's a bit more melancholy and soul searching than the original, which is to take nothing away from the song. Waxing lyrical: Corey Taylor, Slipknot/Stone Sour 2011-01-12T12:05:01Z

A far quieter, more melancholy movie is "River Road" by Chinese director Li Ruijun. Hong Kong film festival offers view of a changing China 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Despite the absurdity of the play's off-kilter relationship, Ellis' focused production becomes steadily more melancholy in tone. Terrific actors face off in "Gruesome" play 2011-02-01T03:36:14Z

Out of this frenetic activity came a picture that is quiet, moving and melancholy. Werner Herzog: 'I'm fascinated by trash TV. The poet must not avert his eyes' 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

But the new title also strikes a note of melancholy. For Jann Wenner, the Music Never Stopped 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

Another Smith film, “Pilgrim,” which revisits the ashram and the Shaker site in a melancholy register, suffers from its placement in a corridor that leads to the terrace. The Whitney Reopens With 3 Powerhouse Shows 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

The Troubles broke out when I was a child," she says when I ask where the melancholy comes from, "so that really coloured it very much. Deirdre Madden: 'The Troubles are almost always in my work at some level' 2013-06-14T15:00:05Z

“There are only two tempos, too fast or too slow,” Cameron Grant, the principal pianist with New York City Ballet, said with a melancholy laugh after rehearsal a few weeks ago. Finding the Keys for the Right Ballet Steps 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

A sense of melancholy lingers over these characters’ lives, as it does over this entire project. Witty and Soulful Stories From a Writer Who Was Just Getting Started 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

“My Dad is paying me to be here,” he says, with a mixture of melancholy and bitterness. Debate Society's ‘Jacuzzi,' With Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

But in the new songs — melancholy thoughts about time, decline and limitations — are neatly refuted by music that’s full of life. Critics' Choice: New albums by Dr. Dog, Sam Amidon, Laura Bell Bundy and Aaron Goldberg. 2010-04-11T21:37:00Z

The music there was by Jules Massenet, who loved the peacefulness of country life and whose sweet, sometimes melancholy tranquillity is only rarely touched by true discord. Music Review: Damien Top and Linda Hall at Symphony Space 2012-09-10T02:23:04Z

Yet failed aspirations and loss were consistent themes for Mr. Briggs, a melancholy soul. Raymond Briggs, Illustrator of ‘The Snowman,’ Dies at 88 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

The sonic squall grows melancholy and implacable, like a memory that won’t fade away. The Playlist: Iggy Pop’s Jazzy Whimsy, and 12 More New Songs 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Unlike her earlier albums, “Metals” wears its melancholy on its sleeve, Mr. Pareles said. ArtsBeat Blog: Popcast: Two Chanteuses 2011-09-29T20:23:00Z

They transferred these passions to the next generation, along with a prideful melancholy that their children might never know the home country. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

These occasional hints of melancholy are the record’s most affecting moments. Mavis Staples Spreads Love and Joy on One True Vine 2013-06-26T09:45:05Z

Meetings were clipped; havoc, routine; graying hairlines, a melancholy performance bonus. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Post Malone is the most modern pop star — a rapper and singer, a child of hip-hop but not beholden to it, melancholy even when he’s celebrating. New Year’s Eve: A Guide to Music and Comedy Events 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Distance, emotional and physical, was an overarching theme best encapsulated on the final song, “Ketchum, ID,” in which each woman sings a verse about the melancholy of life on the road. Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus Formed an Indie-Rock Supergroup 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

“Underneath this plain narrative surface — or rather, resting on it the way a smooth stone rests in your palm — is a lucid and melancholy inquiry into the current state of American society,” he wrote. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Devs’ and ‘Better Things’ 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

But, he added, “what I absolutely can’t get enough of is the sheer brilliance of much of the music, the wonderful play with irony, with melancholy. The Dionysian life force is fantastic.” Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

The bulk of the activity postdates the end of Murray’s second marriage in 2008, but as with his screen performances, the dusting of midlife melancholy adds rather than subtracts from the stories. This Season’s Best Books on Hollywood 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Despite her expressed joy in family life, she doesn’t conceal her enduring melancholy; it’s as if real life were the offstage sideline to which Cindy were relegated. “Cutting My Mom,” Reviewed: A Filmmaker’s Ingenious Web Series, Made in Collaboration With His Mother 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

It was the shadowy cousin of 1991's "Out of Time," another multiplatinum success that dealt with its melancholy in a more sanguine, orchestral manner. R.E.M.’s “Monster” and the legacy of an unsung melancholic masterpiece 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

But beneath the buoyancy, there was a palpable melancholy, hinting at the vein of sorrow that runs throughout “Kidding.” A Darker, Deeper Jim Carrey Returns to TV With ‘Kidding’ 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Then again, Keep Shelly in Athens excel in one of our favourite musical genres: melancholy disco. New band of the day ? No 949: Keep Shelly in Athens 2011-01-19T16:22:46Z

Mike Flanagan’s skill at transforming seemingly unadaptable novels into vibrantly melancholy, undeniably spooky TV series and films is unparalleled. Hidden horrors: our writers on the scariest movies you (probably) haven't seen 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

Though songs like "Chasing Pirates," "Young Blood" and "Light as a Feather" were somber in theme, they were performed without melancholy. Norah Jones shows off new shoes, new approach at Seattle's Paramount 2010-04-19T16:02:00Z

Joshua Harmon’s melancholy comedy of friendship and marriage will toss its final bouquet on Sunday. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

I asked Newman about the dissonance between his lyrics, which are often dark and even melancholy, and the actual music of his songs, which is typically upbeat and danceable. WATCH: Carl Newman of The New Pornographers: “I’ve always loved epic, sugary pop songs” 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Blind Faith, a flatly brilliant pop record that sets a mournful, reggae-infused vocal against a vast diva-screamed chorus perfectly captures the euphoria and melancholy of the dancefloor at the end of the night. Chase and Status: No More Idols ? review 2011-01-27T15:30:01Z

And its outdoor cinematography, casting the landscape in a dense melancholy blue, makes it feel as if a frozen Jack Nicholson could be stumbled upon at any moment. Redrum and Then Some: 7 Movies Influenced by ‘The Shining’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

In his obsessive, melancholy and hungry-making new book, “The Dairy Restaurant,” the writer and illustrator Ben Katchor suggests that orange juice is hardly the primal elixir of the Jewish diaspora. An Illustrated Love Song to Jewish Restaurants of Old 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

Part of the mystery is that it’s unclear what kind of story this is and where — with its charming child and restrained melancholy — it could be headed. ‘Petite Maman’ Review: Into the Woods 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Yet, sensing the desires of the Internet zeitgeist, SNL featured a short, melancholy film in which cast member Leslie Jones floated the idea that she, not Baldwin, should step into the role of Trump. Our president is a TV addict. It’s going to get the best of him, but he’ll never get the best of it. 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

I think some people focus on the sadness or the melancholy but there's also a lot of silliness in there. Six hours, one song: the National perfect the art of repetition 2013-07-11T18:03:02Z

It's easy to laugh, but The Real Thing is an authentically fantastic pop record: in a world of euphoria, it sounded strangely wistful and muted, its melancholy chafing against its plasticky bedroom production. The best No 1 records: Tony di Bart – The Real Thing 2012-05-31T20:18:00Z

There, a young film music supervisor — one of today’s industry power brokers — told Donovan his music was great and used in films because it was “hopefully melancholy.” At the Neptune, Donovan took fans on a magical musical tour 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

He imagined history through the gaze of a melancholy angel caught in widening gyres, impelled inexorably into the future while staring helplessly at the wreckage of the past. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

The Windsors’ oldest son, Charles, the Prince of Wales, carried with him a perpetual air of Hamlet-like melancholy. A Low Point for the Monarchy, in a New Season of ‘The Crown’ 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

Beneath the silver plate, its antic story of a divorced couple who reunite while honeymooning with new spouses is more melancholy than you may recall. Review: Reliving ‘Private Lives,’ This Time Mostly Women’s 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

The choral music accompanying the piece — spare, melancholy folk songs performed by Ensemble Rustavi of Georgia — is the final element that creates the spell onstage. Golden visions from Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan | Dance review 2014-03-07T18:41:37Z

But Mr. Davies, as “Doctor Who” fans know, has perfected a style of propulsive, almost manic comic dialogue with an undercoating of melancholy, and there are plenty of hilarious and touching moments in “Cucumber.” Review: ‘Cucumber,’ a Logo Series Starring Vincent Franklin 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

She journeyed into adulthood as a melancholy reminder of his former flesh-and-blood humanity. Perspective | Lisa Marie Presley understood how to live life as a nepo baby 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

While he has the same charming smile and supremely relaxed conversational style, he sounds different here: melancholy, earnest and poetic, direct. Jerrod Carmichael Comes Out in a Riveting Special That’s About So Much More 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

The concerto's temper is that of inconsolable melancholy, a melancholy made all the more poignant given that Elgar would live for an additional 15 years in sad irrelevancy. Yo-Yo Ma is marvelous during a strange night at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

It's unfathomable how Mary and Leeward ever got together, but Bloom brings a yearning melancholy to her role, even as Mary is positioned as Leeward's buzzkill conscience. 'Swim Little Fish Swim' drowns in tired take on 'artistes' 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

You may be relieved, or disappointed, to hear that I didn’t detect a single element that warrants an exclamation point in the rather melancholy Encores! Review: ‘Zorba!’ Starring John Turturro 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

And considering the tragedies that pile up in the middle, it can seem a melancholy one. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

As part of the newly formed Hunter Theater Project, Mr. Nelson will direct a new translation of Chekhov’s melancholy comedy with a cast including Jay O. Sanders, Roberta Maxwell and Yvonne Woods. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

He also penned rather melancholy occasional verse — much of it quoted by Davenport-Hines — and produced pioneering travel and topographical guides to Oxfordshire and Berkshire. Review | Looking back to a time when leaders and millionaires were also men of letters 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

At the same time, LaChiusa’s forte is melancholy, which is much harder to monetize than big drama or big comedy. ‘Los Otros’ Review: A Slow-Burning Tale of Melancholy 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

I like Christmas songs but ours, No Christmas, was more of a melancholy anti-Christmas song because it was all about guilt, loneliness and loss. Twelve tips for the Flaming Lips 2011-01-12T14:09:59Z

With its palpable melancholy and infinite sadness, Beginners is no story of teenage angst manifested weirdly. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z

Duane Linklater, from Moose Cree First Nation in northern Ontario, contributes a pair of large sculptures that redeploy indigenous materials into wordless, melancholy formations. Artists Space Re-emerges as an Enduring Downtown Alternative 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Yet, with their melancholy physicality, the works actually rhyme with the old house, highlighting the decaying wood, the cracks in the floors, the dingy wall panels. Tony Greene: Melancholy in paint, given new dimension at MAK Center 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Poignancy is thrown in with melancholy ruminations on the passage of time and the fate of art. Theater Review: ‘The Hunchback Variations’ at 59E59 Theaters 2012-06-11T02:00:00Z

He describes the songs as being melancholy and bittersweet, yet she says that in each, there lingers a sense of hope. Paul Reiser makes 'unusual suspect' for music album 2010-12-07T19:42:00Z

Country legend Johnny Cash found late career success with his "American Recordings" series, which paired his voice with mainly an acoustic guitar as he worked through melancholy cover tunes. Tom Jones sings the gospel on "Praise & Blame" 2010-07-16T19:34:00Z

After a comically disastrous meal, the tone turns melancholy, as Garland laments her unhappy life and her hosts reflect on theirs, as closeted partners in pre-legalisation 1960s Britain. Is Hollywood still in love with the suffering ‘gay icon’? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Both situations call for thorough self-questioning and the mournful recognition that joy is fleeting, along with flashes of anger, estrangement, guilt and melancholy. Cage the Elephant Returns, Suspended Between Rowdiness and Regret 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

It is now the first single off their new album – Taylor's offering melancholy vocals about someone who doesn't treat him right, before the track lifts off into an 11-minute jazz-funk jam. About Group: Alexis Taylor swaps Hot Chip for jazz improv 2011-03-31T21:29:00Z

All three of these productions balanced the play's comic elements within the serious melancholy pathos underlying the play--the missed relationships and opportunities both in love and in life. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

“But,” as the slightly melancholy final line notes, “he never did.” Mog the Cat, and the Mysteries of Animal Subjectivity 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

They languished in the back of the passport drawer, no doubt melancholy, as one gets when nobody takes you out. I Was Misinformed: Love and the Stick-On Nipple 2014-04-18T18:55:23Z

His melancholy voice-over narration early on is a letter to her. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z

As does his implication that melancholy afflicts the most ambitious human efforts, that it is a historical and collective, not just a personal, fate. D?rer's Melencolia I ? a masterpiece, and a diagnosis 2011-03-18T10:52:50Z

“Shining Through Broken Glass,” which preceded it, was a ballad suffused with graceful melancholy, framing a contemplative solo by Mr. Klein. Music Review: A Little Kick From the Mideast: Folk Spices the Jazz 2011-04-06T21:58:18Z

As a result, despite a rich vein of slapstick humor, “Huck Out West” is a more melancholy novel than Twain’s original. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are back — and all growed up 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

While Wave works with a wide range of producers, they’ve collectively honed a signature sound that suits Wave perfectly — most songs begin with lush and contemplative piano, a plangent and melancholy guitar, or both. Rod Wave Sings Through the Pain 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Albarn, in an interview, described the opera’s story not as a tragedy but as “a melancholy.” Music Review: An Alchemist Reaches Out Across Centuries 2011-07-03T19:14:09Z

Singer Kelly Jones delivers dark, melancholy songs of sadness and contemplation, the title track and Violins and Tambourines pondering the transience of life over touchingly simple guitar motifs. Stereophonics: Graffiti on the Train – review 2013-02-28T21:00:01Z

Few of the works have the broad, melancholy, crystalline force of Zagajewski’s “Mutilated World,” which is included in the book. Perspective | Words of wisdom or wishful thinking? The problem with new books that aim to heal us. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

An unnerving, single-movement piece, it traces a trajectory not so much from darkness to light, as from melancholy to something akin to relief. LSO/Harding/Hardenberger – review 2013-02-06T13:21:40Z

And if you interview parent after parent about that, you can feel the kind of melancholy welling up in you, like, I really better self-consciously enjoy this. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z

Across selections from Chausson, Debussy, Poulenc, Mendelssohn, Richard Strauss and Alban Berg, Piau conjured a rarefied emotional world, suffused with wistful longing and serene melancholy, and leavened by a sense of wry detachment. French soprano’s serene concert at UDC is the stuff of dreams 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

At a time when animation is expected to be computer-generated, three-dimensional and relentlessly upbeat, Mr. Sullivan’s film is flat, handmade and melancholy, a dark and painful fantasy for grown-ups. Movie Review: ‘Consuming Spirits,’ an Animated Film by Chris Sullivan 2012-12-12T00:01:20Z

They were moved by his love letters and his statesmanship to write a melancholy romance that doubles as a political message. Oscar-Nominated Songs With Familiar Composers 2014-02-19T22:59:00Z

How could you not when the numbers include “Dancing in the Dark” and “That’s Entertainment”? But don’t be surprised if those tunes now echo with melancholy. ‘The Band Wagon’ Stars Brian Stokes Mitchell 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

“Perhaps it was for this reason that Dunwich became a place of pilgrimage for melancholy poets of the Victorian age.” Footsteps: Rambling With W. G. Sebald in East Anglia 2011-04-22T18:55:00Z

When corroborating alibis seemed to clear his name, a string of eccentric suspects followed, beginning with Hazel’s surly and melancholy uncle, William Taylor, whose farm was located within a mile of Teal’s Pond. Hazel’s brutal murder was all but forgotten. Until she inspired ‘Twin Peaks.’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

And she usually disrupts a melancholy or dramatic exchange with an abrupt, bizarre burst of humor. Diane Williams is at her unconventional best in 'Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine' 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

A mood of nostalgic melancholy pervades the film as each seems to be trying to find the other without ever succeeding. A Video Artist Playing With Themes of Orientalism 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

But there's a melancholy quality to his functional existence. "The American": George Clooney's killer trip through Italy 2010-09-01T15:02:00Z

A mistress of metaphor and sparking detail, and with more punch than Proust, Colette's descriptions are often laugh out loud funny, at once cruel and compassionate, but usually followed swiftly by a warm, reflective melancholy. Colette has more punch than Proust 2011-03-25T14:00:03Z

Her subsequent albums were sprinkled with vignettes that conveyed melancholy attachment to the people and places of her past. Lucinda Williams Is Raw, Riled Up and Ready to Speak Her Mind 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

It focuses on the passing of a beloved era, a melancholy transition that everyone knows will reshape their relations to each other. Review | In Tessa Hadley’s new novel, death mixes everybody up 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

I’ve always had a thing for music that can make me cry, or at least indulge some serious melancholy. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

What he called the city's "vistas of melancholy" mesmerised him. Mingus, Monk and Mailer: W Eugene Smith's Jazz Loft photographs 2010-05-12T11:51:00Z

The intent may vary: sometimes the haunter wants sex, sometimes they want to rekindle something, sometimes they just want to wallow in this one-way mirror of their own melancholy. Guide to online dating behaviours 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

The moods of “Musik” are alternately dark, festive, pensive, regal and melancholy. William Eggleston, at 78, in a New Key 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

This melancholy solitude didn’t last long, as Ms. Borree, taking her bows, soon became a one-woman receiving line for City Ballet principals past and present. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Yvonne Borree Hangs Up Her Toeshoes 2010-06-07T21:06:00Z

Some hold that Byron's dog went mad in sympathy with Byron; others that Nero was driven to desperate melancholy by associating with Mr Carlyle. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

“The difference between ‘sad and melancholy’ and ‘melancholy with an edge of resolve’ is really in the ear of the listener,” Mr. Butler said. The Carpetbagger: Arcade Fire Gets Inside Spike Jonze’s Brain 2014-02-11T18:30:57Z

Romantic bonus: Aulay’s hobby on the high seas is painting melancholy seascapes with no people in them. Love Notes 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

“It was carnal love,” O’Brien said, “but also he saw within her a melancholy and an ancient knowledge that answered his deeper needs.” In ‘Joyce’s Women,’ 2 Great Irish Writers Square Up 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

As do Mr. Khan and Ms. Kaur, islands of melancholy calm surrounded by silliness and noise. Movie Review: ‘The Lunchbox,’ With Irrfan Khan: Mumbai Mix-Up 2014-02-27T16:27:45Z

Perhaps “Figaro” is also accountable for the concerto’s affecting mix of effervescence and melancholy, and for the subtly stagy flourish of its finale, in which a poignant minuet interrupts a buoyant rondo. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘All-Mozart’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-06-21T21:44:31Z

But I was determined not to write a melancholy or maudlin record about isolation. From Fleetwood Mac back to Crowded House, Neil Finn weighs in on the band's open-hearted new album 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Robyn, who has the air of a melancholy British nanny, is written and played for laughs, so it’s difficult to take the couple seriously. 'The Way You Look Tonight' at the Odyssey Theatre 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

While albums in the streaming era aren’t always made to be heard as a whole, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” traces a clear arc: from bravado to melancholy. Billie Eilish Redefines Teen-Pop Stardom on a Haunted, Heartfelt Debut Album 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Laura Schwendinger’s “Garden of Earthly Delights,” inspired by the famous Bosch triptych of that name, was a suspenseful tangle of bristling lines and eerie dissonances with passages of melancholy respite. Music Review: Cutting Edge Concerts Continue at Symphony Space 2010-04-06T22:28:00Z

Its melancholy tone and patient pace set up new kinds of clever jokes. Best Comedy of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

Ever since her body was consigned to the disease, my mother had been melancholy. A Brief History of Death 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

This story ends with a melancholy and oddly beautiful floating parade of no-longer-carnal female ghosts. Books of The Times: ‘Four New Messages,’ Stories by Joshua Cohen 2012-07-31T12:00:00Z

Muñoz then led an elegant account of Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” Suite, capturing the melancholy of the music while letting the players cut loose in dancing, near-frantic episodes. Review: At Caramoor, a Concert Signals Return and Remembrance 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

The piano music ripples and courses like time slipping away, in keeping with “Chéri’s” melancholy tone. An affair to remember: Martha Clarke’s dance-theater version of Colette’s ‘Chéri’

The Jesus and Mary Chain also mined the past, culling material from their ‘80s and ‘90s albums when they combined distortion and melancholy to mesmerizing effect. Concert review: Riot Fest at Humboldt Park 2012-09-17T05:46:00Z

The golden glow that halos around the two former lovers reconnecting in “See You Then” is tinged with melancholy. ‘See You Then’ Review: The More Things Stay the Same 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

One of the implicit tragedies within this show, which trails off into reflective melancholy in its conclusion, is that Gee was never allowed to reach the heights that Ms. McDonald inhabits with such assurance. Review: ‘Shuffle Along’ Returns to Broadway’s Embrace 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Oh, don’t be so melancholy,” he would say. The Time Capsule 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

A sense of melancholy lingers over these characters’ lives, as it does over the book: So, who was just 28, died last December. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

All the same, the exhibition left her feeling melancholy; the Marshall retrospective had made her feel the same way. Anna Deavere Smith Contains Multitudes 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

By contrast, “When I Was Your Man” is a melancholy piano ballad about lost love that leaves a haunting impression. Bruno Mars’ ‘Unorthodox Jukebox’ lives up to name| New CDs 2012-12-10T22:16:59Z

Edwards' dazed, distorted tracks come from a techno tradition "shot through with melancholy, or at least unease," Sherburne said. Underground music hero Delroy Edwards fosters an above-board approach 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

“And there’s a unique tone: a mix of goofiness and melancholy,” often registered in the mix of horror, disgust and rapt fascination with which Goodweather greets the monstrous things he sees. Corey Stoll enjoys ‘The Strain’ of series stardom 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

When Hella returns from Spain, for example, he sees ‘‘Her smile was at once bright and melancholy.’’ The Unsparing Confessions of ‘‘Giovanni’s Room’’ 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The painting depicts a desolate, dark green clapboard house with a 'For Sale' sign beside it, reflecting the melancholy of the time. Hopper work sells for record $40m 2013-12-06T11:34:57Z

But the show was dynamic, not melancholy, in spite of the lush operatic music of “La Traviata” on the initial soundtrack. Fashion Review: Chanel's Kinetic Look at a New World 2013-07-02T17:11:40Z

It’s funny, because I love melancholy stuff so much. Michael Kiwanuka Felt ‘One Step Away.’ Now He Has a Seat at the Table. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Sorrow and melancholy became more evident, even in works wearing a sunny exterior. Lewis' Schubert recital a thing of rare beauty 2011-05-23T17:16:10Z

On top of that, I already felt emotionally quite alone from my marital breakup, a melancholy sensation that only intensified during intervals when an hour passed without seeing another car, even on major highways. Where the Journey is the Destination 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Anything to vary the days, alleviate “the ineffable melancholy, the shadowless sameness” of being financially solvent through a mere accident of birth. ‘Heiresses’ Adds Up the Melancholy and Danger of Inherited Wealth 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Yukisada’s “Aroused by Gymnopédies” — the Erik Satie piano composition plays a role in the plot — is both the most melancholy and the most humorous of the three. Drama, Humor and a Sex Scene Every 15 Minutes 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

It’s a tale of crisscrossing couples in Montreal, and their melancholy intimate complications. What to Stream: “Afterglow,” a Melodramatic Spotlight for Julie Christie 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

He had a stillness, a shyness, a slightly melancholy reserve that anchored the trust of his young viewers. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Throughout “The Maidens,” Michaelides quotes from the melancholy poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, one of Cambridge’s most celebrated poets. Review | ‘The Silent Patient’ was a huge hit. Next we have ‘The Maidens.’ Don’t believe the hype. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

She is found by the much older Golaud, a prince who marries her and brings her home, only to see her apparently fall in love with his half brother Pelleas, another figure of immense melancholy. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z

This melancholy comedy is the story of a young gay man, played with appealing gawkiness by Gideon Glick, who finds himself feeling increasingly isolated as his best girlfriends marry off, one by one. Times Critics’ Guide: What to Do This Week 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Without mentioning a title, their conversation about harrowing photographs, heartfelt letters and melancholy music made it clear they were discussing the PBS miniseries The Civil War. Ken Burns's The Civil War: America's greatest documentary rides again 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

But, oddly, the more he talks about loss, in that hushed, melancholy voice, the more I begin to suspect he is one of life’s unlikely optimists. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

In notable contrast to the revivalist meeting atmosphere provoked by his quartet's live appearances, these albums offered another Brubeck: introspective, wistful, contemplative, with an occasional trace of melancholy. The best of Dave Brubeck – in video clips 2012-12-06T11:38:57Z

Then she spotted a beautiful, melancholy woman with red hair like her own. The Art of Slowing Down in a Museum 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Some pieces are experimental and darkly stylized while others are naturalistic and melancholy, nodding to Albrecht Dürer. The Artist Beneath the Art Forger 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

But there is melancholy too, and serenity, particularly on the Pop Ambient compilation series that Wolfgang describes as "pop under the microscope: beautiful, light, like flowers and dreaming". Kompakt – Germany's friendly techno label hits 20 2013-03-21T17:39:26Z

And yet, with this homespun treasure, Chomet proves there is still a place for old-school sleight of hand; for something rare and exotic, majestic and melancholy. Edinburgh film festival review: The Illusionist 2010-06-17T08:41:00Z

The singer shifts her posture from melancholy troubadour to agitated riot grrrl, and tells him off. How beabadoobee’s “I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus” Reckons with a Rock Idol 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

There is an extraordinary, very poetic melancholy about a sun going down. "I like to be right alongside with my characters": Charlotte Rampling on her career, acting "flow" 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

After the melancholy party had stayed there for some time, Monsieur Tournevau remarked: 'This isn't very cheerful, is it?' A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z

It, too, is a joyous film, but it’s also brushed with melancholy shadows that cling. At Cannes, A German Comedy to Fall in Love With, and Paterson's Poetic Radiance 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Harlequin, thin and hungry and white-faced, twists his diamond-patterned body like a melancholy serpent, while a woman with cheeks pared to the bone clutches herself as she broods over her absinthe. Picasso in Paris: raw works of genius from the artist as a young man 2013-02-15T17:25:03Z

The instrumentation is eclectic — reeds, washboard, accordion — and the effect is both melancholy and ominous, a sort of Kit Kat Club aura without the decadence. Review: ‘Old Hats,’ Mime and Mayhem From Irwin and Shiner 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

In the film’s most melancholy moments, you’re aware that this budding friendship is built on a lie. Review: In ‘The Infiltrator,’ Bryan Cranston Tunnels Into a Menacing Drug Network 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

His wife’s suicide in 1885 further deepened Adams’s melancholy, causing him to refer to his subsequent existence as his “posthumous life.” Review | The best new audiobooks: Tales of deception, suspense — and some history 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Not a gentle sort of autumnal melancholy but a deep grief and anger and loss. ‘Britain Is No Home to Me’: Five Artists Respond to ‘Brexit’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Those who enjoy McMurtry’s rueful humor and understated tone of elegiac melancholy will devour the book in one setting; others will find it too slight and offhand to be genuinely commanding. Westerns by Larry McMurtry, Craig Johnson, David Fuller, Jeff Guinn

She and Mr. Lin pushed the first movement of the Concerto No. 5 into melancholy dissonances before returning triumphantly to the opening theme. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Plays Bach 2013-12-17T22:02:05Z

"There's a sense of melancholy in Wilder's movie that I responded to." The clues to 'Mr. Holmes' director Bill Condon's varied career 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

The wooden horn is similar to an alpine horn and produces a low, melancholy sound. 10 traditional winter festivals in Europe 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

The result is an elegantly opaque abstraction, in melancholy layers of purple and gray, that echoes the questions of loss and longing that Mr. Hunter asks in his play. Behind the Poster: 'The Whale' 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

To Maeve Sinclair, just shy of 30, the parade is a melancholy reminder that she’s moving on to a new job in Boston. Review | ‘Red Hands’ is either creepily satisfying or a trigger for your worst nightmare 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

London critics roundly praised Ms. Bennett’s performance, though some, like Michael Billington of The Guardian, said that the melancholy work allowed audiences to wallow in Garland’s troubles without providing fresh insight about them or her. ArtsBeat: 'End of the Rainbow' Producers Aim for Broadway 2011-04-19T16:53:48Z

She is steeped in nostalgia and melancholy, fulfilling a cinematic vision of putting things back together after they fall apart. Allow Natalia Lafourcade to Reintroduce Herself 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

In its early stages, nostalgia manifested as a general melancholy accompanied by obsessive thoughts and recurrent images of one’s homeland. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z

The melancholy at the core of Now Is Not the Time does battle with synth-distortion, and Science is an Ibiza-in-east-London extravaganza, with searchlights blinding the audience. Chvrches – review 2013-05-01T17:09:00Z

“Puccini’s ravishingly melancholy work seemed, like many operas of its time, to romance death,” Ben Brantley wrote in his 1996 review for The New York Times. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Rent’ and the SAG Awards 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

After helping dismantle the temporary display, the prisoner says with a hint of melancholy, “The process is what matters.” ‘Paper & Glue’ Review: A Sequel of Sorts to ‘Faces Places’ 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

The vision of Fred Rogers—as played by Tom Hanks—that emerges in Marielle Heller’s new film, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” is lyrical, strange, and melancholy. The Wondrous Heroism of Mr. Rogers in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

But his melancholy melts away when he’s on the podium, particularly in rehearsals that he leads with a kind of merry rigor, laughter snapping into a crisp downbeat. For Riccardo Muti, a Grand Sort-of-Finale in Chicago 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

Such time traveling allows Mr. LaChiusa to weave witty period homages into a melancholy, swirling, key-shifting score, with nods to Offenbach, Glenn Miller, Irving Berlin and disco anthems, among many others. | 'Hello Again': Web of Love, Explicitly Woven in Shades of Anguish 2011-03-21T02:01:03Z

And yet there is nothing in either Galeano's work or his demeanour that smacks of despair or even melancholy. Eduardo Galeano: 'My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia' 2013-07-23T16:41:00Z

The acting is sumptuous, whether these sturdy-voiced actors are biting off words in anger or letting fly with romantic, melancholy speeches. To Moscow! Kennedy Center showcases an expert Russian ‘Three Sisters.’ 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

The first time we listened to it, we were amazed by the melancholy of some of his songs, moving away a little bit from the parodic tone that was present in previous albums and soundtracks. August's best new music from across the MAP 2011-08-17T17:09:56Z

"Lewis expresses his melancholy. Robin never did. Robin never let you in on his other world. Richard makes a living letting you in on his other world. I am not worried about him." Richard Lewis looks back at his dark comic turns in 'Bundle of Nerves' 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Polenzani is not the swaggering, trumpeting Franco Corelli-style tenor generally associated with the part — though he rises, stylishly, to fiery intensity — but rather a vocalist of refinement, inwardness and melancholy. Review: ‘Don Carlos’ Finally Brings French Verdi to the Met 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

A melancholy mood is enhanced by blocks of funereal black filling in the oblong expanse of the billboard on either side of the picture. Critic?s Notebook: Sculptural Surprises Grace the Streets 2011-08-18T22:26:28Z

His work focused on giving life to a feeling can't quite name, something between wonder and deep melancholy that captures what it's like to float in the unknown and accept what comes. "Cowboy Bebop" is an off-key adaptation that captures the jazzy color but not soul of the original 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

Anne, realizing that friends can be as supportive as her own relatives, shakes off her melancholy. ‘Jam Van’ Dares to Ask: What if Family Road Trips Were Actually Fun? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

The movie’s view of human society is bleak, but its ending strikes a chord of melancholy hope. 6 Best Summer Blockbusters You Have to See 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Conor Madden, who is portraying the melancholy Danish prince in the Second Age Theater Company’s production of “Hamlet” being presented at the Everyman Palace Theater in Cork, Ireland, was wounded during a sword fight. ArtsBeat: Actor Is Injured in Irish Production of 'Hamlet' 2011-03-22T14:28:29Z

Even more captivating than the unexpected turns of this plot is the way she reaches into the depths of melancholy but never sinks into despair. Review | Decades after his mother’s disappearance, a man searches the past for clues 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

At the same time, it gives you a sense, more vivid than any mere biography, of the personality of the man who drew it — manic and melancholy, electric, incandescent. How to Look at a Basquiat 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

“Jealousy,” Philippe Garrel’s new film, begins in tears and proceeds through seasons of romantic melancholy, unfolding on Paris streets and in Bohemian apartments filmed in lovely shades of gray. ‘Jealousy’: a blue romantic tale filmed in shades of gray 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

The staging manages to infuse the old war horse with a genuine mood — a real, if occasionally exaggerated, melancholy — without alienating those looking for hoop skirts and a parade at the end of Act 2. ‘La Bohème’: Should Opera’s Most Beloved Classic Be Changed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

"Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind" seesaws between hilarity and melancholy as it tracks the rise of one of the great American comics. “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind”: 10 things we learned from new doc 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Dave Robicheaux, the narrator of this robust regional series, is an Iberia Parish sheriff’s detective with the melancholy air of a man who occasionally sees the hollow-eyed ghosts of the Confederate dead. A Gumbo of Crime: From the Bayou to Britain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Ratmansky’s ability to tell difficult stories and evoke complicated relationships and emotions is unmatched, and his compressed glimpse of the melancholy and turmoil of Soviet life is no exception. Review | National Ballet of Canada dazzles with exhilarating energy at the Kennedy Center 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

"He gives the character such an inescapable melancholy – a certain perseverance in the face of absolute resignation to his fate – that he becomes a more tragic figure than ever," says Todd Gilchrist at Indiewire. The Dark Knight Rises gets off to flyer with US critics 2012-07-16T11:32:03Z

“Holy Motors,” a frenetic blast of mad fun and melancholy from the French director Léos Carax, will be shown only once this week, but it’s also opening theatrically in New York on Oct. Critic’s Notebook: The New York Film Festival’s 50th Edition 2012-10-09T00:33:01Z

In an early review, The Hollywood Reporter trade publication called Jones's film "an absorbing, melancholy look at the hard lot of women in the Old West". At Cannes, Tommy Lee Jones turns the western on its head 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

But as feared, there was also a tinge of melancholy in seeing this ebullient personality in a wheelchair and working at reduced capacity. Review: Bach at St. Paul’s, and the Fictional Relative, P.D.Q., at Town Hall 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

While “Mrs. Fletcher” may sound, from a plot summary, like an R-rated comedy or the outline for a raunchy Judd Apatow movie, it is more melancholy than many of his earlier books. Tom Perrotta Returns to Familiar Turf: Sex, Schools and Suburbia 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

He was not a morbid or melancholy artist — quite the opposite, in fact: His images are passionately alive. The Man Who Taught a Generation of Black Artists Gets His Own Retrospective 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

It gives us the peculiar atmospheres, the unearthly light over the Breton landscape, the static silences and frozen gestures, the strangeness and sadness, the melancholy and yearnings in his art. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z

Some of its stories are universal and painful, yet this book is not mired in melancholy. Books of The Times: ?Then Again,? by Diane Keaton - Review 2011-11-17T23:11:27Z

By 2011, a friendly war between artists soon emerged – waged, instead of bullets, with the likes of Brad Pitt’s melancholy, ideological rants in “Fight Club,” scantily-clad pin-up girls and kid-friendly “Looney Tunes” characters. 10 striking images of graffiti in Kandahar 2014-01-05T13:00:00Z

It’s a kindly, enveloping sound that Ms. McLachlan has long used to conjure passion and empathy laced with melancholy. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Sarah McLachlan, Devo and Tom Petty 2010-06-13T21:44:00Z

But the introspective, melancholy tone of Buniatishvili’s playing — her exquisite touch at the keyboard, coupled with a warm yet lonely sound — encourages a deeper interpretation of the film. Khatia Buniatishvili brings Chopin program to UW 2013-02-28T23:50:09Z

In another installation, “Surround Me,” six recordings of Ms. Philipsz singing melancholy English songs from the 16th and 17th centuries are being played through Jan. 2 in lonely alleys and streets in London’s financial district. Canvas? Paint? No, Just Sound 2010-12-10T23:35:00Z

Where their debut contained giddy guitars and a song about their local swimming pool, their third album finds them pondering mortality within melancholy epics deserving the comparisons with the Blue Nile and Talk Talk. The best albums of 2012 (so far) 2012-06-14T19:00:06Z

Shrouded in fog, squalor and melancholy, “Port of Shadows” is less concerned with the machinery of plot than with conveying a sustained mood of uncompromising bleakness. Michèle Morgan, lustrous French actress of ‘Port of Shadows,’ dies at 96 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

In short, it sounded as it should: like a courageous, risky rebuilding of spirit following the unclothed melancholy of the preceding movement. Artemis Quartet - review 2011-01-23T18:18:53Z

The moodiness is also reflective of the melancholy of watching a loved one fade away. Robert Downey Jr. reconnects with his filmmaker dad in Netflix's poignant documentary "Sr." 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

One isn’t melancholy simply because of the experience of racism, Cheng suggests; melancholy, and its dynamics of loss and recovery, are the foundations for racial identity. The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

Whereas the music in “Nixon in China” was dispatched in jumpy headlines and sound bites, that of “The Death of Klinghoffer” ripples, sways and flows, exerting a melancholy undertow. Music Review: ?Klinghoffer? Returns, to Be Debated Anew 2011-06-17T22:32:42Z

Isaac said he felt “a real melancholy” when he watched Fisher on screen in “Rise of Skywalker.” 'It's bittersweet': Leia has key role as 'Star Wars' wraps Skywalker saga 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

In the melancholy painting “Winter 1946,” a young man descends the hill, which is infused with shades of brown. Footsteps: In Pennsylvania, Exploring Wyeth’s World 2013-05-24T17:13:58Z

“The kind of drag I do is intense melancholy,” Mr. de Leon said after. At Bushwig, Pushing the Boundaries of Drag 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Her own sense of melody holds echoes of Celtic tradition; her voice, smoky and torn at the edges, brings melancholy and pain close to the surface. Music: Beth Orton Releases ‘Sugaring Season’ 2012-09-29T23:43:03Z

In Madden's early work, the compassion went along with a deep sense of melancholy. Deirdre Madden: 'The Troubles are almost always in my work at some level' 2013-06-14T15:00:05Z

The diary becomes a record of his unraveling, as contemplative melancholy spirals into despair. Review: ‘First Reformed’ Is an Epiphany. Ethan Hawke Is, Too. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Centred and authoritative in his dancing, suddenly and inexplicably goaded into petulance by Zenaida Yanowsky's serene melancholy, he commands the stage from his first entrance. Royal Ballet triple bill – review 2013-03-03T00:05:19Z

With the third record you have something that is dark and melancholy, and a little bit cynical.” Alex Chilton, Influential Rock Singer, Dies at 59 2010-03-19T04:41:00Z

Keaton nonetheless emerges in all his enigmatic, melancholy glory. Review: ‘The Great Buster’ Brings a Deadpan Genius Back to Life 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Films make Ford happy, he insists, but he still retains a stubborn streak of melancholy. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

“There was a huge opportunity for writers to invent the causes for his melancholy, his love of opera, his love of crosswords, his reason for staying in Oxford,” even the roots of his beer swilling. ‘Endeavour,’ Inspector Morse Prequel, Set for PBS 2012-06-29T20:46:16Z

But just when the succession of artful, heartbreaking pictures starts to reach peak melancholy, Salgado's interests begin to shift toward unspoiled nature, and the doc becomes more hopeful. The thought-provoking, brainy sci-fi drama 'Ex Machina' 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Both iterations require the character to seem simultaneously adolescent and elderly, in a performance sprightly enough that winsomeness prevails over melancholy, yet allows those darker tones to seep through. How the Star of ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Found Beauty in Her Voice Again 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

In choosing Audiard to close Season 5, Rochant picked a director with a proven record for putting a thoughtful, melancholy spin on the thriller genre. ‘The Bureau’ Is an International Hit. Why Did Its Creator Hand It Off? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Anyone who visited Coney then knows that it possessed a dark charisma, a melancholy charm in which the boardwalk’s seediness was, at once, moodily present and a proof of what was lost. Coney Island: The Cyclone! The Hot Dogs! The Art! 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

While some critics faulted Mr. Rakoff’s writing as overly aphoristic, many praised his singular style, which combined an amiable dyspepsia with an almost palpable undercurrent of melancholy. David Rakoff, Award-Winning Humorist, Dies at 47 2012-08-10T15:50:38Z

The work concludes on a melancholy note with the questioning “Adieu.” Esa-Pekka Salonen With Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-25T00:50:05Z

He draws equally from both albums, and his keening, cracked falsetto remains a thing of wonder, ladling plaintive yearning over the wintry melancholy of Holocene. Bon Iver 2012-11-09T11:58:06Z

He can be obsessive, thin-skinned, insecure, melancholy and unforgiving — especially when he walks into one of his restaurants and all is not as he wishes. Tough on Others, Tougher on Himself: The Perfectionist Behind the Milos Restaurants 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

Even when he was painting mundane domestic scenes, his eye for the subject and his painterly treatment infused them with a sly, soft-pedaled, gently melancholy wonder. Review | Artist Noah Davis died tragically at age 32. A New York show reveals a great lost talent. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

Last month’s “Pretty Face” — his first full-length recording — is built on the same melancholy lyricism and lo-fi production that defined previous projects, but it feels more resolute, nudging up the intensity on his heartsick ruminations. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

All of which ought to confirm that Dean risks a formal beauty and deploys a melancholy palette that in her case easily cohabits with irony, rigour and complexity. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z

Yet even the most absurd scenes have a melancholy quality to them. Review: In ‘With No Fanfare,’ Things Fall Apart 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

Gothic grumbling from 1996 that positions itself neatly between melancholy and rage. Readers recommend: Songs with indecipherable lyrics 2010-05-06T23:01:00Z

Today’s playlist is a tribute to artists like Paul: an appropriately fleeting, gently melancholy collections of tracks from artists who have cultivated a certain mystique. The Enduring Appeal of Magical Mystery Musicians 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

In the sweetly melancholy “Yoyo,” often considered his masterpiece, Mr. Étaix played the dual roles of a wealthy idler and his son, who grows up to become the celebrated clown Yoyo. Pierre Étaix, Director and Slapstick Actor, Dies at 87 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Northwest transplant Megan Griffiths has given us a true Northwest film, infused with the same melancholy, overcast atmosphere that made "Five Easy Pieces" so memorable 41 years ago. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-06-06T19:01:05Z

Without ever becoming a violent criminal spree or a baffling head-scratcher, it’s simply a melancholy, 10-episode rumination on loss and friendship. Review | ‘Lodge 49’ reminds us that sometimes TV shows — like life — can just be weird 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

The pair’s comic adventures interweave with the more melancholy account of Clare, a first-year fiction writer who can no longer write. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

But more often, McRae’s sharp vocals are coated in layers of production — the melancholy “Hate Myself” is thick with theatrical reverb, and “Go Away” pulses with a muscular throb. Post Malone and Pop’s Single Sound 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Gwen's departure leaves me melancholy and I wonder at the emotions I feel at a simple video game. Ghosts who grieve in video games – and how I helped them achieve a measure of peace 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

At a time when melancholy can easily overshadow joy, Morris’s “L’Allegro” is more than an incandescent evening of music and dance. Review: The Sophisticated Simplicity of a Mark Morris Masterpiece 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

This is a place of melancholy artifice, a concatenation of assorted pastiches; and picture is a kind of sight test – how to read the visual signs in art as well as life. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z

Every move he makes turns genuine emotions into a pose, which doesn’t discount the authenticity of the flickering melancholy within. Review: Kevin Kline Serves Ham in Soignée Silk in ‘Present Laughter’ 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Part of the success of Scandinavian crime dramas and crime authors lies in their being unafraid of darkness and melancholy, and instead seeing a certain beauty and comfort in it. There's more music like The Bridge theme lurking in the Norwegian woods 2012-05-24T12:55:27Z

It’s one of the most ambivalent, melancholy documents of rap success ever released, which is odd, because it was recorded long before Drake’s turn in the limelight. Arts & Leisure Preview: The New Face of Hip-Hop 2010-06-09T19:29:00Z

Sam Kelly as the downtrodden Soppitt memorably transforms himself from a man who looks like a melancholy walrus to a cuff-shooting figure quietly surprised at his own audacity. When We Are Married ? review 2010-10-28T11:04:00Z

She calls herself an optimist early on, but her peppy charisma has hints of melancholy, an undercurrent that emerges more explicitly when she talks about divorce and dating. The Best New Comedy Specials to Stream Right Now 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

In its original French, the opera is a luscious wallow in melancholy and opacity; its libretto, by Maurice Maeterlinck, verges on impenetrability in its portrayal of star-crossed love and fratricide. Critic?s Notebook: An Orphan, a Libertine and the Walking Dead 2011-06-19T22:11:24Z

As part of the newly formed Hunter Theater Project, Mr. Nelson will direct a new translation of Chekhov’s melancholy comedy with a cast including Jay O. Sanders, Alice Cannon and Yvonne Woods. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

She shares a rocky island with a succession of characters whose identities and attitudes shift without warning or explanation: They are parents, children, potential lovers or perhaps emanations of her anxious, melancholy mind. Critic’s Notebook: Film Comment Selects Festival Offers 22 Intriguing Picks 2014-02-13T22:30:25Z

She is earnest and yearning as young teenager Amy-Jo, wonderfully proud of her father but somehow made melancholy, as she'd have to be, by the hardscrabble circumstances of her life. Pain and pure love in the melancholic memory piece 'Low Down' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Upbeat as it is, “Silk Stockings” has an underlying melancholy. On DVD, an American in Paris (and in the Soviet Union) 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

But his style is warmer, relying on punch lines with corkscrew turns that have moments of vulnerability and even melancholy. 4 Comedy Specials to Watch: Seasoned Stand-Ups Making Debuts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

One, dated 1944 and actually titled “Self-Portrait,” is a realistic likeness, soulful almost to the point of being a sendup of romantic melancholy. After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Wells struck a more unnerving than usual balance between physical dread and the contentious, melancholy grind of survival. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Most natural, perhaps, is the way in which Kosky’s take on the musical — unaltered, but for welcome Yiddish additions — unfolds as an act of memory, at once melancholy and warm. America’s Most Interesting Opera Destination? The Midwest 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

But “Dining Alone” is barren: melancholy — and the frailty that it cloaks — is more than an empty plate. Dance Review: ‘Dining Alone’ at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2013-04-21T20:08:20Z

But then we eventually see that his friends of 25 years never got to know him either, which makes everything that befalls him land with bitterness as opposed to melancholy. Stripped of its cheekiness, Hulu's "The Full Monty" transforms from a movie comedy into a TV slog 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

But it’s her guilt about a righteous but unlawful killing that lends the book such haunting melancholy. The Best Crime Novels of the Year 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

I could crudely say it’s like flamenco, though it’s darker, with a melancholy color all its own. NSO, Lopez-Cobos disappoint in “Iberian Suite” program 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

And both pieces relax into melancholy passages of seeming sincerity, haunted by eerie mists. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

But the atmosphere is more one of melancholy. "Zero F**ks Given" embodies the willful tedium of a depressed flight attendant 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

With his high-collared trenchcoat and melancholy poker face, K is as much of an old-school gumshoe as his gruff predecessor, even if the “runner” in their job description increasingly seems inaccurate. Sedate expectations: will Blade Runner 2049 give birth to the slow-burn blockbuster? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

His photographs capture both an “ambience of melancholy” and the stubborn pride of former Zonians. After the Panama Canal Zone 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

It can be hard to disentangle sex appeal from exploitation, or to avoid seeing the shadow of Monroe’s profound unhappiness in Sugar’s melancholy moments. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Roz Chast’s graphic love letter to the city, “Going into Town,” also published this month, is more sanguine than most about the evolution of New York but still strikes a melancholy note. A Graphic Novelist’s Passionate Anatomy of New York 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

And Mr. O’Connell rises to the crucial challenge of convincingly drawing Berowne’s evolution from madcap joker to melancholy philosopher, who comes to understand that man cannot live by words alone. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z

Mr. Clements works wonders with a deadpan expression, imbuing his role with a repressed melancholy, a nice match for the poignant emotionalism of Mr. Gould’s Bob. Review: In ‘Humor Me,’ a Dose of Borscht Belt for a Midlife Crisis 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

With exquisite balance in the sarabande, a sustained ecstatic melancholy in the andante religioso, and light but earthy folkiness in the finale, this was a compelling account of Grieg's evocative retro masterpiece. Norwegian CO 2010-08-26T11:00:00Z

At which point he was supposed to say, as he would have said from his sleeping bag as a boy, “Oh, don’t be so melancholy.” The Time Capsule 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Or to put it another way, the success of “Hamlet” is contingent on the success of whoever is playing the melancholy Prince. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Shaw's 'Saint Joan': A marathon for four actors, and the audience 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

It’s a work of journalism and of imagination, of history and portraiture, of indignation and melancholy. Review: ‘Wormwood’ Confirms That Errol Morris Is Our Great Cinematic Sleuth 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

"He was truly a melancholy Dane," said Hirsch, noting that Hamlet's own mother proclaimed him to be mad. Jury deadlocked over Hamlet's mock murder trial 2011-02-01T12:46:04Z

Particularly beautiful is the Agnus Dei, in which the boys sing a melancholy line over an ostinato bass pattern in the organ, here played well by Frederick Teardo. Music Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Sing Britten 2010-05-20T21:17:00Z

"Some Boys" and "Codes and Keys" carried on a "night of metaphor" as Gibbard called it, with his melancholy voice taking the crowd on a sometimes somber, reflective journey. Death Cab for Cutie galvanizes a sold-out Showbox crowd 2011-05-12T21:44:05Z

There are comic and musical moments throughout — albeit the fleeting comedy of ironic observation and the melancholy music of Sufjan Stevens singing carols. Review: A Ham’s ‘Christmas Carol,’ Without the Honey Glaze 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

She also finds people are "surprised" when they meet her because she's not melancholy like her music. Adele tells Vogue she's done with break-up music 2012-02-13T05:03:11Z

Peluchonneau is an invented character, a creature conjured from crime fiction and touched with philosophical melancholy as well as ruthlessness. Review: ‘Neruda’ Pursues the Poet as Fugitive 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Heavy, dragging phrases looped in an ever-deepening expression of melancholy; one lithe, slippery dance grew gradually more cocky. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

The filmmakers — Janus Metz directed, from a screenplay by Ronnie Sandahl — focus on the melancholy Swede, perhaps out of Scandinavian pride and perhaps because they believe his still waters run deep. Review: ‘Borg vs. McEnroe’ Revisits an Epic Court Battle 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Peck responds sensitively to the jaunty, jazzy, sometimes melancholy Poulenc score. Review: In Paris, a Bold Ballet Adventure From Justin Peck 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

The album’s melancholy might point back to Beck’s lengthy hiatus from music, including a period when he was incapacitated by a spinal injury. Beck 'Morning Phase' review 2014-02-25T00:11:00Z

To a lay listener, the feeling that most resonates is one of vindication, tinged with melancholy. Review: Singing the Lone Survivors of Nearly Lost Music 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

But in the midst of the pastoral calm and natural beauty, you feel the pull of his melancholy, the weight of his malaise. ‘Down With the King’ Review: A Rapper in the Wilderness 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

Gillian Welch: With her partner David Rawlings, the singer is back with her first album in nearly a decade, “The Harrow & the Harvest,” a sparse collection of melancholy beauties, 7:30 p.m. Top weekend show: Gillian Welch at the Vic 2011-07-22T04:19:00Z

"This melancholy musical is without doubt a heartfelt, intensely personal project," wrote David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter. Sting musical opens on Broadway 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Maybe it's because I'm a naturally melancholy person, and fall is the most melancholy time of year -- a brief, final flowering of life before bleak winter settles in. Leaf peep show: The greatest autumn movies 2010-10-23T01:01:00Z

Born at the end of the 19th century, the music and dance reflect the passion, drama and melancholy of their experience. Colombian couple win world salon tango competiton 2011-08-30T01:27:08Z

In the case of “Risky Business” the dreamy, wistfully descending nocturne “Love on a Real Train” helps bring out a strain of melancholy in the misadventures of the all-American teenager played by Tom Cruise. Tangerine Dream’s Music in BAMcinématek Series 2012-06-02T23:03:01Z

“And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, / Bidding adieu,” Keats writes, and I felt the truth of his claim that images or narratives of happiness are the best conduit for melancholy. Garth Greenwell on Vacations 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Baldwin’s home has been abandoned, however, and is now for sale: a melancholy pile of stones where once we’d laughed and talked. Back to Provence 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z

Huston stated that the melancholy film was "about the spiritual process of the defeated and the futility and indestructibility of hope". Susan Tyrrell 2012-06-27T14:41:00Z

Yet his influences included Anton Chekhov and Williams for their nuanced characters and baseline melancholy, and he generally accepted being associated with the absurdist theater. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The performance of “Kullervo” that followed was remarkably colorful, full of vitality and also a deep melancholy. Thomas Dausgaard leads Seattle Symphony in another excellent Sibelius program with ‘Kullervo’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

This was an energetically played but altogether melancholy evening. Review: Mythical Twins Inspire Music Divided in Two 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

That melancholy spirit comes through beautifully in the stunning fourth episode of the new season, in which BoJack has to attend the premiere of “Secretariat” at the Pacific Ocean Film Fest, held underwater. ‘BoJack Horseman’ Returns for a Hilarious and Hallucinatory Season 3 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

But even as it expresses a general nostalgia for the premodern business of show-making, “Around a Small Mountain” also explores more specific forms of melancholy. | 'Around a Small Mountain': A Village Circus From Jacques Rivette 2010-07-08T21:39:00Z

All this romantic romping merely inspires raised eyebrows and wry bemusement from the play’s famous cynic, Jaques, portrayed with a quiet dignity and understated melancholy by Stephen Spinella. Theater Review: ‘As You Like It,’ With Lily Rabe in Central Park 2012-06-22T02:00:14Z

I enjoyed the visual pleasure of the glittering blue pools of suburban Connecticut and noted the way the melancholy anti-hero flirts and lies to conceal his state of mind. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z

His photograph, although a jeu d’esprit, exudes a whiff of melancholy because like all photographs it’s a reminder, with that shadow, of something gone except in the picture and our recollections of it. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z

His new novel, “The Rise & Fall of Great Powers,” is weightier, more focused and considerably more melancholy, but it still exhibits the author’s impish wit and his fondness for tangled stories. Book review: ‘The Rise & Fall of Great Powers,’ by Tom Rachman

The item I discarded that I miss most — as a melancholy pang, not as grief — was a natty burgundy-red cardigan that my then girlfriend gave me in L.A., right before she dumped me. 'Mess' author straightens out readers about clutter and hoarding 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

They were powering down the pirates, who slowly ceased their partying—which, under the harsh industrial lighting, looked a little melancholy. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Every track is suffused with a melancholy that draws comparisons to some of the best of Ween's softer material, including the aching "Birthday Boy" and "I Don't Want It." Review: A look at overlooked albums of 2012 2013-01-03T17:46:53Z

“Micmacs” finds Mr. Jeunet, still best known in this country for “Amélie,” in a contemplative mood, his impish sensibility shadowed by melancholy and anger at the violent state of the world. | 'Micmacs': In Jean-Pierre Jeunet?s Work, Misfits Battle Arms Manufacturers 2010-05-27T22:46:00Z

On “Sweet 16,” the most melancholy song here, he laments, the “girl that’s throwing down a bottle of Olde English/back in the warehouse,” concluding tragically, “You will always be my sweet 16.” Critic’s Notebook: Green Day and No Doubt Have New Albums 2012-09-25T22:10:16Z

It presents deadly action as slow-boiling farce and mixes dark satire with a melancholy, blissed-out comic fantasy of fathers and sons bonding over money drops and assassinations. Reviews: Amazon Pilots Include a Revolt and the Supernatural 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Fittingly, melancholy permeates “Memoirs From Beyond the Grave.” The French Revolution Made Him an Exile, and a Writer 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

“Drowning Practice” is a book about a dream, and it reads like a dream too: melancholy and luminous, looping and discursive, resistant to easy interpretation. In ‘Drowning Practice,’ a Dreamlike Vision of the End of the World 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Jonathan Kent, the production’s director, said that Ms. Staunton was distinctive for “an ebullience of spirit that is slightly undercut by a melancholy.” Imelda Staunton on Return to Musicals With Sondheim Roles 2012-08-10T01:35:08Z

Still, even at her happiest, an air of unexplained melancholy hangs over her, a sensibility the film itself shares. In 'Princess Kaguya,' a wondrous parable about what matters 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Sometimes that melancholy had a political context and Scissor Sisters are unusually alert to the deeper meaning of disco. Long live disco 2012-05-21T17:55:01Z

The recent presidential election shadows this hour, particularly in its melancholy mood. 5 Stand-Up Specials to Stream This Week 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

The mood is melancholy, yes, but hardly oppressive; Rondeau’s touch and pace is so varied that even this program of broadly related works seems to span a whole universe of sound. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

A review in The New York Times deemed the drama of a would-be art student “who finds herself slowly becoming a barroom and boudoir bum” not “without a certain melancholy charm.” ‘La Chienne’ and ‘A Married Woman’: The Better Half, in Dark Strokes 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Some of that mixture of defiance and whimsy is present in “Closed Curtain,” but it is also edged with melancholy and fatigue. ‘Closed Curtain,’ by the Iranian Dissident Jafar Panahi 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

At the same time, the carefully maintained tone of hushed melancholy tempers the macabre extremes of the horror plot, with its occasional flashes of violence. ‘The Patient’ Review: The Doctor Is In. In the Basement. 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

It was a stimulating experience, devoid of melancholy or sentimentality on either side. Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms 2010-07-26T20:31:00Z

But he is a naturally reserved player, and he did contribute a fine melancholy to the slow movement. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Much like Barry, I went across the country by Greyhound, a melancholy but very instructive experience. Gary Shteyngart on How Hedge Funders See the World 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

“I had never seen myself that way, but when I read it, I knew it was true. Am I still melancholy?” Amy Schumer Doesn’t Care What You Think (That Much) 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s just exquisitely beautiful music, tender and melancholy, and fabulous for dancing.” ‘Everyone Danced in France’: A Baroque Bourrée Comes to BAM 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

Beautifully composed and adroitly paced, the film is suffused with a melancholy that Mr. Bong, in his signature trick, somehow marries to low humor. Film: Where Wit and Genre Filmmaking Collide 2010-02-25T00:26:00Z

“Even though the works themselves are quite contrasting, I find a very strong element of melancholy in Janácek and Schubert, and also an amazing quality of melody,” he explains. Superstar duo Yuja Wang, Leonidas Kavakos have a meaty program in store for Seattle fans 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

“I Don’t Know” flips to melancholy and reassurance. The Playlist: Paul McCartney’s Smooth Tunes, and 13 More New Songs 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Ms Dynamite is on melancholy form singing on Toddla T's Fly. F&M playlist 2011-08-11T21:20:00Z

Similarly with Kelley: the dark space he planned to retreat to beneath his replica homestead now seems an image of profound melancholy. Our memories of Mike Kelley's art will be shaped by the manner of his death 2012-05-16T15:49:27Z

The emotion common to more humans than any other, he has decided, is melancholy, and that's what they want to emanate from every track. New band of the day - Tomorrow's World (No 1,429) 2013-01-11T15:45:23Z

Wandering-standing in the cathedral, alone with the saints, the melancholy Fortinbras is aware of their gaze, inquiring of him what happened to the past. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Children described words like “ebullient” and “melancholy” in ways that related to their own emotion. Why every parent should read to their kids 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Braiding this concern into a larger portrait of loss, “The Little Bedroom” is a gentle, melancholy drama so pale and tentative that its very colors appear washed away by grief. ‘The Little Bedroom,’ About a Nurse and a Willful Patient 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a place where the defiant hope of pop rock is tugged at the edges by a melancholy awareness that for many of these people, escape will never be an option. ‘Sing Street’ Review: New Wave Music as Sweet Deliverance 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

As a young man Mr. Salinger had a long, melancholy face and deep soulful eyes, but now, in the few photographs that surfaced, he looked gaunt and gray, like someone in an El Greco painting. 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z

Exhaustion competes with elation, celebration with melancholy, and all around it the city of Miami lives and breathes, occasionally infiltrating the fair and transforming its visitors. From the Fringes of Art Basel Miami Beach 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

The collection’s strongest poems find a melancholy strain thrumming under the good intentions. Perspective | Words of wisdom or wishful thinking? The problem with new books that aim to heal us. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Full of pure sentiments, from nostalgia and mirth to melancholy and heartbreak, Josh Rouse’s holiday album is too cool for Yule. Get in the holiday mood with Ne-Yo, Lea Michele and Chicago 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

"C'mon" is a gentler, more introspective collection, a lush, melancholy work recorded in a converted Catholic church in Duluth. Alan Sparkhawk talks about his trio, Low 2011-09-15T19:24:03Z

But without those kinds of external threats, the sad gnaw of solitude quickly sets in, a deep-seated melancholy infusing the solo-act-in-space that was Silent Running, the eco-conscious preface to Moon. Going solo: the grinding power of the single-actor film 2011-03-25T12:13:18Z

But he incorporated hip-hop posturing into his vocals, and his blend of cocksureness and haunted melancholy became a genre staple. Nate Dogg, Hip-Hop Collaborator, Dies at 41 2011-03-17T04:31:55Z

And, stereotypically, a lyrical bent and melancholy outlook. All Is Silence by Manuel Rivas – review 2013-06-21T15:43:01Z

It is a gentle, melancholy tale about an old-school vaudevillian magician and entertainer who finds that modern showbusiness is leaving him behind. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z

With permission from Yoko Ono, Osbourne recorded a mournful, melancholy version of How? Ozzy Osbourne covers John Lennon song for charity 2010-10-06T10:16:00Z

The Elizabethans boiled it down to four types: You were choleric or sanguine or melancholy or aggressive. Rachel Maddow and Doris Kearns Goodwin on a Presidential Race for the History Books 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

The pace here was swifter than that of many other quartets, so that the deep melancholy of the music gained an added dimension in the inexorable passing of time. Music Review: The Emerson Quartet Plays the Mostly Mozart Festival 2013-08-21T21:27:12Z

Is it melancholy to think of this being your last Carnegie performance? A Third of the Three Tenors, José Carreras Exits on His Terms 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Over here is just about the most desolate, melancholy landscape in the world. Perspective | The no-pressure holiday gift you won’t even have to wrap 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

While concerned with the melancholy closure of ageing, the poem conveys in parenthesis the limitlessness of adolescent aspiration. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z

A benumbed melancholy throbs through both the novel and film, which plays like a lampoon lamentation for the Southern California utopia that might have been. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Firth is exceptional at capturing the future king's imperious yet melancholy air, the underachiever waiting to be prodded into something more. 'King's Speech': A pair of restrained scene-stealers 2010-12-16T16:18:00Z

I saw, with fresh emphasis, the extent to which the play is about temperament: sunny souls turn hardship into a picnic; those with melancholy hearts will drag their heels forever. As You Like It – review 2012-05-22T09:51:51Z

The light is warm, and bright but melancholy music plays. Review: These Art-Historical Nudes Become Bodies in Time 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z

She notices a mother and daughter splitting a sundae, and, after it had just been revealed in the previous episode that her own mother passed away when she was young, the mood reads as melancholy. On "The Bear," Sydney's Chicago-wide smorgasbord liberates women from food guilt and girlbosses 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

A slow, dreamlike sequence sees them rolling across the floor, rising onto an elbow, then sinking again, as if falling into the melancholy melody. Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Showcases Beethoven and Female Choreographers 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

But the overall mood is one of gentle melancholy. Rip Van Winkle, Newly Awake, Meets His Neighbors Onstage 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

The accumulated meaning of her aching lyrics and the magnificent vocal music she produces add to the melancholy beauty. Toni Morrison's ghostly 'Desdemona' blends words and music in lyrical revision of Shakespeare 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

He left behind the young man full of verve and romanticism, who courted melancholy in his poems. When the World Stops, Traveling in John Keats’s ‘Realms of Gold’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

But I think that push is not the need for fantasy, but a familiarity with the fantasy - also with melancholy: the color of dusk, night, death and separation are dominant in the prose. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z

It stands up as both a melancholy mood piece and satisfying detective story, offbeat but grounded by a shifting yet constant sense of dread, even in the blazing sunshine. I’ve never seen … Chinatown 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

But Banks has found a newer, richly compatible setting for her seething melancholy: the disembodied, suspended-time synthesizers of what has been labeled minimal R&B or future soul. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

What’s notable is that Mr. Stanhope’s matter-of-fact, even hopeful style does not invite sympathy or melancholy. Critic’s Notebook: Doug Stanhope’s ‘Beer Hall Putsch,’ a Stand-Up Album 2013-09-06T22:34:31Z

On this happiest of happy nights, a wet wool blanket of melancholy sogged itself over me. His adoption secret 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z

But to listen to Molly's quintessentially English postwar blues was to be reminded that melancholy meditations on the fragile nature of human happiness are not the sole domain of sensitive young men with guitars. Nick Drake: in search of his mother, Molly 2013-03-22T07:00:10Z

And what might have registered as a dirty joke becomes a stirring interlude of melancholy beauty. Kneehigh Theater's ‘Tristan & Yseult’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

You guys weren’t that old when you wrote it, but there is just this melancholy tint to the record that’s really timeless. Buffalo Tom’s Bill Janovitz on Nirvana, “My So Called Life” and a new record 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

It’s the narrator’s mother, though, who embodies the real terror, melancholy and desperation of Aleppo. Review: ‘No Knives in the Kitchens of This City’ Describes a Syrian Hell 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

It’s kind of the same thing as the Flaming Lips, where there are these really melancholy lyrics and melodies yet it’s extremely uplifting. Tame Impala and the lonely pursuit of perfection 2012-11-08T18:56:00Z

The first movement’s emotional surges and melancholy strains are beautifully conveyed here, with the moody transition of the development section heralded with startling vigor. Classical Recordings: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 2011-06-10T14:33:11Z

Small Gestures is a rather melancholy film, but not because it is a portrait of the artist in his old age. Lucian Freud's feathered friend 2010-06-16T21:01:00Z

Despite all the beauty shots in the movie, the light that softens Jackson’s world also fades, replaced by a melancholy that can feel eulogistic: It’s mourning again in America. ‘Jockey’ Review: Hit Hard and Still Riding 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

As it happened, a sense of melancholy and of grappling with spiritual notions were this concert’s through line. Music Review: Robert Sirota’s Chamber Works at Manhattan School of Music 2012-09-16T22:15:11Z

She was better suited to pieces like Debussy’s “Beau Soir,” with long, slow lines that she negotiated elegantly and a mood of light, languid melancholy that she is well practiced in projecting. Music Review: Renée Fleming and Susan Graham at Carnegie Hall 2013-01-28T22:44:30Z

Tracker’s team includes a reticent buffalo, a witch who rises up from a puddle of oil, an archivist who’s also a master swordsman and a melancholy giant who won’t stop lamenting his kills. Review | ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’ is the fantasy epic everyone will be talking about 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

To be sure, Brown wears his melancholy on his sleeve. A very real take on turning 60, written with wit and verve 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

I have been haunted by her words, and I thought of them again as I read the British writer Katherine May’s lovely, melancholy memoir “Wintering,” about a dark time in her life. ‘Wintering’ Offers Hopeful Perspective on Embracing Difficult Times 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

In , it is accompanied by orchestral music, and looks sad, majestic, august – a melancholy anti-war sequence. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z

Above her serenely melancholy piano, Hynes — sometimes harmonizing with himself — sings in quick triplets about bicycling late at night and poses questions: “How do you feel?” Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s Wholesome Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

There, tutors identified a strain of melancholy in the man which had first been pointed out by teachers at school. 'I'm an expressionist nihilist at heart': the dark allure of Tom Burke 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

The arena became an island of elegant melancholy in Sade’s first world tour since 2001. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z

It’s a nuanced, gorgeous first half-hour, brilliantly performed and laced with melancholy and humor; you could confidently put it up against the best HBO or Showtime half-hour pilots of recent years. Fall's Best New TV Show Is Not on a TV Network 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

It exudes melancholy even as the beat fires up; it's our old friend, sad disco, something to dance to even as you ponder the vapidity and meaninglessness of frivolous self-expression. Trophy Wife (No 876) 2010-09-28T15:47:00Z

Kristol, a ring leader in what he calls the “beat down” Never Trump movement, had been melancholy ever since his first glimpse of the arena early Saturday. Yes, Bill Kristol is at the Republican convention, having a terrible time 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

And because I am hopelessly nostalgic, I liked the melancholy history, which is inescapable. Vienna is cited as the world’s most livable city. Most exciting? Not so much. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Andrew Mellor, the author of “The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture,” described melancholy in the region “as a discipline. It’s also a kind of pastime in Scandinavia.” A Posthumous Solo Album Reveals a Jazz Star’s Melancholy 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

Jack Antonoff produced both the bouncy “How You Get the Girl” and the later “Question …?”, which feels like a hazier and more melancholy variation on a similar theme. Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ (Lindsay’s Version) 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

In another he poses as a moody teenager, gripped by a melancholy that can lead to genius or misfortune. J.M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, in Black and White 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

At five pages, “The Fledgling” is a virtuoso composition, its brevity speaking to how poetic concision can test a reader’s capacity for melancholy. ‘The State We’re In,’ a splendid new collection of stories by Ann Beattie 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Her partner, Robert Fairchild, was sharp and soft in all the right places, and in the second pas de deux, an angular display of partings and meetings, they shared a tenuous melancholy. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z

She’s not the melancholy and difficult woman described in other accounts. Review | Was Abraham Lincoln gay? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

“Thank you,” I said, feeling melancholy, because I knew how hard it was for our birth mother, alone. Modern Love: Modern Love — Three Mothers, One Bond 2012-12-27T17:38:28Z

The overture opens with a soft section for cello solo, though, during which the melancholy sound of David Hardy’s instrument set an unexpected and delicious tone for an outdoor concert. National Symphony Orchestra shines in quiet moments at Wolf Trap

The contestants show the judges videos highlighting their charity work — beauty and misery to the tunes of melancholy piano concertos. Miss World is the biggest beauty pageant you’ve never heard of. What’s it doing in Washington? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Some melancholy, if not quite grief, about the exploitation of the Earth suffuses the work, mainly through the incongruous musical selections: B.B. Review: The Sea Is Rising, but the Dance Goes On 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

That this lovely, melancholy exploration of loss was able to find a place on secular TV, hone its technique and return stronger, is, itself, a minor miracle. Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Starts Over Beautifully in Season 2 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

For all its melancholy, it verges on being cute. Review: Orhan Pamuk’s ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’ 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Four Clowns Presents Hamlet The clown troupe puts its own spin on the Bard's tale of the melancholy Dane. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 13-20: 'One Man, Two Guvnors' and more 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

The film works quite well as a melancholy travelogue — an elevated version of something you might see on cable television — but its aspirations for depth of feeling or more profound social commentary aren’t quite realized. | 'Beijing Taxi': Bystanders to China?s Transition 2010-12-09T23:30:00Z

Abdel is more of a brooder, at least for a while — Benssalah has a clenched, melancholy watchfulness that holds your attention in the midst of all the noise — but eventually he starts yelling, too. ‘Athena’ Review: Oh Brothers, Where Art Thou? 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

On one hand, it was a great exit -- a melancholy moment of self-immolating fear and shame that further humanized this Ma Barker-like crime boss. "Justified": A poignant end to a bloody season 2011-05-05T12:06:00Z

But the play’s roiling undercurrents — of melancholy, frustration, romantic longing, repressed primal urges — still resonate. | 'Dancing at Lughnasa': ?Dancing at Lughnasa? at Irish Repertory Theater - Review 2011-11-01T23:37:20Z

Those backdrops conjure the neoclassical obsession with ruins, the melancholy gaze on the past by artists like Piranesi and Hubert Robert. Review: France Once Fought Over This Opera. Juilliard Shows Us Why. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Orchestral in scope, its songs are steeped in drama, atmosphere and, oftentimes, melancholy—its first album was called “Hospice,” after all. Your week in Seattle music: Steely Dan, New Order, Lauryn Hill and more 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Perhaps only Shteyngart could evoke a dog who “died from the melancholy of being a working-class Jewish pet.” Gary Shteyngart Is Back, on the Road and Still a Master of Dislocation 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

After an initial violin outburst, the piece yields to a meandering and melancholy piano solo. There’s a Skeleton in My Closet, Literally 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Her reading of “River in the Rain,” from Roger Miller’s Huckleberry Finn-inspired musical “Big River,” conveys melancholy admiration of forceful, unfettered freedom. Alison Krauss: Vintage Country. Modern Self-Awareness. 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Most people now read Raymond Chandler less for the mystery than for the sassy similes and the weary melancholy in Philip Marlowe’s voice: Review | Locked-room masterpieces from Japan are the perfect escape for summer 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

I think Brian is very drawn to darkness in music and I am drawn to melancholy - not necessarily darkness as much as he is. Norah Jones, Danger Mouse channel heartbreak 2012-05-02T12:53:08Z

Finally, El Camino took on an unexpectedly melancholy dimension due to the death of actor Robert Forster the same day of its release. El Camino: is the Breaking Bad movie worth the wait? Discuss with spoilers 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Scrolling on, I feel more melancholy with each item. Auctioning Freddie Mercury's things: As a fan, I'm heartbroken. As a widow, I understand completely 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z

But “I’m Not the One” is one of his best melancholy ballads, and Easton’s spectacular guitar fills accent the melody like he’s channeling George Harrison. Ric Ocasek’s Essential Songs: Listen to 11 Tracks 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jacobs, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and an alert, excellent cast have located both its uproarious farce and its core of melancholy. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z

"The delicate chemistry between Karl and Seibert breathes warmth into their outsider romance, and Adrian's solos, the melancholy "Raining" and "I'm Done," in which she finally asserts herself ... are among the better numbers," it said. 'Rocky' musical packs punch on Broadway with rousing finale 2014-03-14T17:14:26Z

The perfunctory happy ending is suffused with melancholy. ‘Car Wash,’ a Raunchy 1970s Comedy Brimming With Meta and Mayhem 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

“It’s kind of an exquisite melancholy,” she said. Single for the Holidays 2012-11-02T18:54:45Z

He is neither buoyed up with jollity nor sodden with melancholy; he is, from the moment he first appears, always threatening to fade. This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:50Z

It was one more beautiful melancholy Legrand melody, and listening to it now, it feels like a tribute to him. Swept Up in the Whirlwind Known as Michel Legrand 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Washington loads the title line with portent and melancholy as he delivers it, and it still sounds trite. Great acting can only take HBO Max's throwback noir "The Little Things" so far 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

Most are marked by a sense of loss and melancholy. Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Although darkness and melancholy suffused most of its songs, they were countered with just enough reassurance from choruses like those in “Don’t Give Up” and “In Your Eyes.” Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z

But sometimes it manages to break through his chronic melancholy. James Blake Finds Love, Moodily, on ‘Assume Form’ 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

And it embodies an elegant and melancholy paradox: What looks like tourism is really the pursuit of truth and beauty, and vice versa. Review: In Eugène Green’s ‘La Sapienza,’ a Search of Ideals of Civilization 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Adams delivers a compassionate performance as a girl whose swagger and practicality hides a melancholy edge. Review: ‘Roxanne Roxanne’ Is a Slice of Old-School Hip-Hop Life 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Rooted in contemporary cityscapes and mythic pasts, with affects ranging from melancholy optimism to humor to horror, this collection is a sensuous, polyphonic feast. Power and Passage: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

I was talking to a few people after about this and I realized the film is actually a lot more melancholy than I was in touch with. Go inside a teen LARPer’s mind in the documentary “Raj and the Rebellion” 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Dvorovenko is somewhat unrecognizable in the role: Sallow and drawn, her usually glittering sapphire eyes disappear into the camera with piercing melancholy. I Don’t Miss ‘Swan Lake’: A Ballerina’s Role on ‘The Americans’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Seventeen years ago, Bowie was already confronting his lost youth in the video for “Thursday’s Child” off of 1999’s Hours… The video is melancholy and contemplative, much like the perhaps under-appreciated song. The 10 Best David Bowie Music Videos 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

It was the music of Brahms, however, that was always closest to Mr. Vogt, for the solace of its melancholy. Lars Vogt, Acclaimed Pianist and Conductor, Is Dead at 51 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Blue Monday is a dance track with a hint of melancholy. How we made: New Order's Gillian Gilbert and designer Peter Saville on Blue Monday 2013-02-11T17:31:49Z

I sensed that Sascha was feeling some of the same melancholy. A Father-Son Bonding Mission in the French Alps 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Although the narrative proceeds in roughly chronological order, there is a very neat switchback, when it jumps ahead and then fills in the details, giving both irony and melancholy to the events. The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner – review 2012-06-01T07:00:03Z

These songs were written by the Bengsons, a husband-and-wife team whose piquant, yearning music is an ideal match for this play’s energized melancholy. Review: Songs Say What a Family Can’t in ‘Sundown, Yellow Moon’ 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

“There’s a certain melancholy in the movie, the way Marc depicts the North, the jobless and the homeless,” Ms. Chammah said. Isabelle Huppert and Her Daughter Meet on Screen at Cannes 2010-05-18T11:48:00Z

The video is a bit acid-fried and melancholy and puts Bieber's alienation in a new and — dare we say — sympathetic light? Justin Bieber, Diplo and Skrillex release video for 'Where Are U Now' 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

But beneath this composed surface his verse sounded notes that ranged from mordant to melancholy. Reed Whittemore, Former Poet Laureate, Dies at 92 2012-04-11T03:47:18Z

There is a unifying spirit in the songs, a spirit that conjures senses of longing, melancholy and hope. Review: Idan Raichel Project builds global unity 2013-06-04T16:54:11Z

That paradoxical killing of the thing one loves is both the nub of Ms. Opie’s political critique and the melancholy viewpoint her film shares with “Vertigo.” ‘Vertigo,’ Through Two Artists’ Eyes 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Anaya is hauntingly engaging as the lost heroine through whose eyes we see the world, and Ibáñez is deft in conjuring an air of melancholy which draws the viewer into her overwhelming sense of loss. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up: Clash of the Titans; Hierro; The Bounty Hunter 2010-07-26T23:05:00Z

The Knights vividly illuminated the yearning qualities of the orchestral suite, with its melancholy English horn and trumpet solos ably performed by James Roe and Sycil Mathai. Music Review: The Knights Play the Naumburg Bandshell 2012-07-25T21:52:26Z

Eve has occasion to look back on the person she was late in the series, but it’s less an act of melancholy than a continuation of her empty nester bewilderment at who she has become. The sexual frustration of "Mrs. Fletcher" 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, some of the keenest insight comes from Chris Ware, another chronicler of cartoon melancholy, who trains his expert eye on Schulz’s craft, the spatial and rhythmic decisions that create his effects. In a Collection of ‘Peanuts’ Tributes, the Gang Is All Here 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

But they sense similarities in each other — melancholy, difficulty relating to others, a sense of remove from one’s own life. Review: ‘The Body of an American’: Ties Created by War 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

The original series brilliantly hinted at the character's troubled, melancholy past, so we'll tune in to find out the details. JK Rowling should remember that less means more in the Potterverse 2011-08-20T23:05:38Z

But there is quiet nobility to the duets near the melancholy end for the two leading ladies, who sing with sensitivity and grace. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Plucks of electric guitar work that instrument for all its echoey melancholy. Review: ‘Angels in America,’ Carved to the Bone and Into an Opera 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

The effects, indeed, of these sacred and fabulous records are different: the one shedding over the mind a pleasing serenity; the other, a sombre melancholy. Cumbria is the place to boggle your Hallowe'en mind 2012-10-29T10:33:55Z

Colbert describes him as a living legend known for his melancholy lyrics. How Morrissey fell for the Stephen Colbert effect 2012-10-11T13:21:09Z

A melancholy tune, beautifully rendered by Mr. Arron, underpins the theme and variations of the second movement Andantino. Music Review: Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert at the Met 2013-01-14T22:11:48Z

But the atmosphere is continually stirred by suggestions of discomfort, melancholy and anxiety. ‘Lips Together, Teeth Apart’ Revival at Second Stage 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Yes, the play often strikes a melancholy tone, but its wheels also send up sparks of generosity and in Liz’s monologue, sharp humor. ‘The Coast Starlight’ Review: Strangers on a Train 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Ninety years later, the film “Christopher Robin” again captures the tender melancholy of transition. The Moral Clarity of “Christopher Robin” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Something in his state of mind and musical sensibility listened to the romantic exuberance of a young woman’s pop album and heard his own melancholy. Haters Gonna Hate: Listening to Ryan Adams's "1989" 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Vocally, Ms. Bareilles sounds bright, too, and comfortable — doing her familiar trick of making the melancholy chirp. New Music: Sara Bareilles, George Duke and Ace Hood 2013-07-15T20:42:55Z

“The real world of 18th-century London seems both lavish and perishable, and the fantastic world of mermaids feels deadly real, especially when the live mermaid pollutes everyone in her vicinity with anxiety and melancholy.” 6 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

When we pick up, Paper Boi’s career has progressed, but all the growth happens offscreen and we just see melancholy parts of his rise: the lack of dependable income, bad fan encounters. The Cast of ‘Atlanta’ on Trump, Race and Fame 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

Add a few years of Stanislavsky-based training and you begin to understand why Wilder's funniest performances exude a whiff of melancholy. A charming, witty introduction to a 'Stranger' a la Gene Wilder 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

These luxurious drones carried their identical Thom Browne briefcases over to the fountain and opened them to eat identical melancholy sandwiches. A Message of Useful Beauty from New York Fashion Week 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

As for Bill, he oversees a large stable of magazines and is conveniently divorced and melancholy about finding anything like true love. Books of The Times: Soft Lyrics Set in Motion a Mad Crush 2011-01-31T19:02:40Z

The artistic attire of those creative figures was unconventional and mildly exotic, worn with a mix of flamboyance and melancholy. Artful Fashion Meets Fashionable Art at Fairs 2012-10-15T14:02:23Z

Solitary figures, drawn in white, multiplied across a video screen as a melancholy piano tune meshed with fast tremolos in the strings. Music Review: Max Richter’s Update to ‘Four Seasons’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-12-23T22:14:54Z

Sure, I’m a bit melancholy that The Post is moving from its own shabby modernist headquarters to occupy a few floors of a swanky corporate office building. Post Classic iPad app: Experience the best of old-school and high-tech 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Last night’s powerfully sad episode of “Game of Thrones,” “The Door,” might have put you in a melancholy mood today. “Game of Thrones”: The Door 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

This melancholy nostalgia drew me into orbit around Benjamin Johncock’s debut novel, “The Last Pilot.” Set in the Space Race era, ‘The Last Pilot’ is nostalgic and heart-rending 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

I rewatched it recently and something new hit me – a sort of joyful melancholy. The film that changed my life: Rian Johnson 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Not every work penetrates deeply, but Johnson's shaggy, restless style consistently holds the eye and snags the soul too, with its alternating emotional current of melancholy and wonder, tenderness and despair. Wonder and despair, frame by frame: The stirring animations of Ezra Johnson 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

My dad also lived in Chicago, our home town, and was saddled with a pervasive melancholy not uncommon among Jewish men of his generation. Jill Soloway Tells the Personal Story Behind “Transparent” 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

Molly Drake … melancholy meditations on the fragility of happiness. Nick Drake: in search of his mother, Molly 2013-03-22T07:00:10Z

But that wouldn’t account for its undercurrent of melancholy, the pathos of an innocent creature in the grips of a big decision. On the Met’s Roof, a Wistful Fantasy We’ve Been Waiting For 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

She plays an instrument those sound is synonymous with melancholy. 'Melancholy Play' is earnest, early Sarah Ruhl 2011-07-28T19:56:47Z

A bittersweet, contemplative melancholy pervades the score, which moves almost continually at a calm pace. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z

Madeira mixes sweet melancholy with dry wit as he finds the power in healing. Review: On the rebound, Madeira finds the power in healing 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Wazeed, who himself lived in Kashmir during the peak years of the separatist violence, writes with a melancholy lyricism that is in sharp contrast to the jarring, gruesome realities he describes. Debut fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-02-20T00:12:01Z

My experience of love has been melancholy, but also joyfully ridiculous; it’s that combination, like a brilliant pop composition, that makes it worth replaying. Notes from a Hollywood divorce: 'We had a primal connection. But we hung by a thread for years' 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

His notes on landscape, limestone and poetry, serve to re-route the squabbling and bring a peculiar kind of melancholy to the series. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'We're not the big buddies people think we are' 2010-10-26T19:29:00Z

This production succeeds mainly on the level of a caper, albeit one spiked with melancholy about squandered lives. Review: The Melancholy of Misspent Lives in ‘Autumn Royal’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

The problem with Frankie Boyle for me isn't so much that he's offensive; it's that his relentless attempts to offend have worn me down and left me feeling a bit melancholy. Is Frankie Boyle actually funny? 2010-12-19T00:06:27Z

For sure, this funny and tender film prompts cheerful smiles, but sometimes they turn melancholy. Review: ‘Menashe’ Finds Faith and Fatherhood Sometimes at Odds 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Draped in a pall of melancholy that more than fulfills the promise of its title, “The Lost Daughter” — Maggie Gyllenhaal’s seductive first feature as director — is a movie filled with portents. ‘The Lost Daughter’ Review: The Parent Trap 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

The film works quite well as a melancholy travelogue — an elevated version of something you might see on cable television — but its aspirations for depth of feeling or more profound social commentary aren't quite realized. 'Beijing Taxi': a picturesque ride through several years of China in transition 2011-06-09T20:12:05Z

Their softness seemed to soothe her and to trigger the faintest wisp of melancholy. After ‘Mission: Impossible,’ Rebecca Ferguson’s Impossible Calm Amid a Whirlwind Mission 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Some of the individual tales may hit the emotions harder or stay in the mind longer, and some viewers may never acquire a taste for his talky, elliptical, melancholy style. ‘The Woman Who Ran’ Review: Conversations With Friends 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Regardless of the outcome, Bristol will leave a new woman, taking with her a newfound confidence that will hopefully allow her to shed the melancholy that she's been carrying around with her all season. Take that, Bristol! Jennifer Grey wins "Dancing With the Stars" 2010-11-24T13:10:00Z

Imagine Thornton Wilder without the radicalism, William Inge without the melancholy, Lillian Hellman without the flash. Review: ‘Morning’s at Seven’ Awakens Again, Only to Hit Snooze 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Ash Wednesday is on many islands a solemn day, ushering in a whole year of what Trinidadians call tabanca: irrepressible melancholy and longing induced by the conclusion of Carnival. On Dominica, a Carnival Celebration as It Was Meant to Be 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The beauty of the West Virginia landscapes captured by Ms. Sheldon’s camera puts the struggles of the movie’s subjects into melancholy relief. 3 Sobering Documentaries on Netflix, Fandor and Field of Vision 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

She looked as French as my grandfather looked American, the soft, elegant looks of a Renoir painting, but overlaid with the melancholy of an Edward Hopper. I could never understand my grandmother's sadness – until I learned her tragic story 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

It felt like Jeffrey Eugenides, the writer, really understood the experience of being a teenager: the longing, the melancholy, the mystery between boys and girls. Sofia Coppola on making The Virgin Suicides: 'When I saw the rough cut I thought: Oh no, what have I done?' 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

With subtle melancholy and restraint, Smith plays Lady Naylor, presiding over an estate in County Cork that feels increasingly embattled as Ireland prepares to break free of the British. Maggie Smith's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Struggling to Let Go of My College-Student Daughter When I sent my daughter, Emma, off for her freshman year of college a few years ago, I found myself overwhelmed by an incredible feeling of melancholy. Motherlode Blog: Struggling to Let Go of My College-Student Daughter 2012-08-01T15:34:57Z

As Baskets seeks to meld high art and low entertainment, Baskets strives to merge humor and melancholy. Review: Zach Galifianakis's 'Baskets' Wrings Painful Laughs 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Change, growth, the movement of consciousness toward maturity — the short story tends to depict these processes with serene melancholy, but the stage is a more head-butting place. In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

He paints as though it's always damp and melancholy, and escape were impossible. British Art Show 7: have I got spews for you 2010-10-25T20:30:00Z

In five collections of songs, he set 43 poems by Hardy, often choosing melancholy themes about the transience of love and life. Gerald Finzi: the quiet man of British classical music 2011-01-27T23:41:00Z

But this time, Marinetti's jubilation has given way to a sense of melancholy. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

You’re right, it’s kind of aggressive, but melancholy at the same time. Exclusive world premiere of “Robyn Hitchcock” by Robyn Hitchcock 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

The melancholy “Dream English Kid” may not have the outward-facing joy of “Fiorucci,” nor the exacting wit of his cabinet of curiosities. Mark Leckey Captures the Exuberance of Pre-‘Brexit’ Britain 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

In these last few hours, Chase crafted each episode into a dense, claustrophobic, melancholy work of art, each one more solemn and heartbreaking than the last. 10 years ago: “The Sopranos” goes dark 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

As I was drying off, though, a different wave hit — a wave of melancholy. A Bicycle Tour Through Remote Southwest Canyon Country 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z

Luxuriant rubato was reserved for the slow waltz, a melancholy tune led by the plaintive sound of principal oboist Nicholas Stovall. At NSO, a rewarding introduction 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

The melancholy of “Tomb of the Forefathers,” the lovesickness of “It Must Be a Wonderful Thing” and the dreamy sadness of “The Lorelei” were barely glimpsed amid the aggression. Music Review: Brian Mulligan and Lisette Oropesa at the Morgan Library 2012-04-02T22:10:13Z

In the new anime adventure “Lu Over the Wall,” Kai is a melancholy middle school student in Hinashi Town, a small fishing village that was once home to humans and merfolk. Review: A Mermaid Saves the Day in ‘Lu Over the Wall’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

If the movie tries a little too hard to evoke a timeless melancholy, so be it. Review: In ‘Bluebird,’ Momentary Distraction Sets Off a Chain of Misery 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Most of the stories don’t contain such bleak moments, but the initially bouncy tone grows significantly darker and more melancholy. Review: ‘Now en Español’ Uncovers a Slice of Latino Life in Hollywood 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Sharper in its focus than recent Protein pieces such as Big Sale or Dear Body, pared down until it sings with melancholy tension, LOL is Silvestrini's strongest work to date. American Ballet Theatre; LOL (Lots of Love) ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:02Z

Do you prefer the pained idealist of Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons,” marching toward martyrdom with melancholy eyes and perfect diction? 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Thomas More Follows His Principles Straight to the Torture Chamber 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

The white Formica-topped tables, linoleum and wood panelling deliver an almost exquisite melancholy, immediately punctured by maybe the purchase of an ice-cream shake and a toasted teacake. The wonder of seaside cafes: neon, nougat and knickerbocker glories 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Bullock sang with burning focus, as she did the whole set, which brought her mellow, dusky voice from melancholy earthiness to piercing crows. Review: Good Music, but Julia Bullock Makes It Great 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

By the third song, “Morning Blues,” he’s settled in a bit, pulling his strings until they make melancholy teardrops. Albums That Look Backward: The Range, Father, Parker Millsap 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

But there were also moments — a fleeting theme with a melancholy, chromatic turn in the finale, for one — that seemed to point toward Chopin. Music Review: Composers? Influences, Side by Side 2010-09-01T21:52:00Z

In Jenny Offill’s melancholy and satirical third novel, “Weather,” there’s a small subplot about the narrator’s friendship with a car service driver in New York City. In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ Paranoia Is Delivered With Humor 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

As the crowd packed in, How to Dress Well set the night’s melancholy tone with a warped R&B opening set. T Magazine: Salem, the Sound of Givenchy 2010-10-21T22:41:00Z

Sally Timms of the Mekons opened “Queen of the Silver Dollar” as a spooky, melancholy dirge, with shimmering, abstract glissandos from the band, before settling it back into country. Music Review: Celebrating a Twisted, Elegant Versifier 2011-08-07T21:46:32Z

An exquisite melancholy has settled upon the galleries of Marcel Breuer’s inverted ziggurat on Madison Avenue: an air of dashed aspirations, commitment and farewell. The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

In his diary, Munch wrote that the painting was inspired by “a gust of melancholy.” Art Mystery Solved: Who Wrote on Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’? 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Was it also the beginning of our 20th century brand of malaise and melancholy? Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

The ghostly trees are barely blue, but they are profoundly melancholy. Review | In the galleries: Exhibits explore the many meanings of blue 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Gauguin's paintings of the Pacific attempt to document a culture and its destruction: their melancholy modernity is eerily resonant with our time. Gaugin, Van Gogh and Doctor Who 2010-09-27T13:38:00Z

With it, she said, she could convey the contemplative melancholy or intoxicating joy she felt each time she played. Fredell Lack, Admired Violinist and Teacher, Dies at 95 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

For all the intellectual bravura, Pendleton’s project carries an undercurrent of melancholy. Adam Pendleton Is Rethinking the Museum 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Their choice to accept us forces them to dwell, so to speak, at the limits of their real natures, which they continually transcend with their human gazes and melancholy snouts. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

I’m kind of melancholy all the time, anyway – I think I live my life in B-flat minor. Bettye LaVette: “I’m kind of melancholy all the time, anyway – I think I live my life in B-flat minor” 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

He had fine, dark, melancholy features that made him irresistible to women. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

“No Choice” is her anguished account of why leaving was necessary for self-preservation, while “Blue,” her take on a torch song, exults in the sensuality of romance with the melancholy awareness that it could fade. Ingrid Andress, a Nashville Outsider Who Paved Her Own Path In 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

Twenty years on, the melancholy tugs harder, as the technology celebrated here — film, running through a camera or flickering on a makeshift screen — is itself becoming an artifact of the past. Review: In ‘A Trick of the Light,’ the German Answer to the Lumière Brothers 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Johnson is at his most moving when he talks of his mismatched parents living together in a state of mutual solitude and when he defines melancholy as "a lazy frost, a numbness of the mind". A Dish of Tea With Dr Johnson ? review 2011-03-09T01:20:25Z

If Moore was in a melancholy mood, it might be because this was his second such event in two days. D.C. punk vets pay tribute to John ‘Stabb’ Schroeder, a ‘very strange’ local legend 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Richard Greenberg's “Three Days of Rain,” a wise and mostly melancholy tale of inter-generational angst, would seem like a candidate for the latter fate. Three stars for drafty 'Three Days of Rain' at Viaduct 2011-05-25T21:37:21Z

His prose-poetry, films and collages, full of romantic melancholy and righteous indignation, were rabble-rousing in not even conforming to the standard genres. Abroad: In Britain, Separation of Art and State 2011-01-25T23:24:38Z

One dance routine is repeated again and again, to results that are funny, melancholy and ultimately moving. | ?Hysteria? and ?If That?s All There Is?: The Ordinary Can Pave the Road to Insanity 2010-12-19T22:49:44Z

It doesn't mean I don't write about melancholy things, but it's a more approachable method – it lets me branch out and do stuff like the Christmas song. Waxing lyrical: Corey Taylor, Slipknot/Stone Sour 2011-01-12T12:05:01Z

In his mind, X. says some strongly-worded things about girls as a concept, eats two platefuls of chubby little doughnuts, and succumbs to several hours of moral and physical melancholy. “Let’s Say” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

His empty halls and violet shadows describe the particular hush and melancholy of those long hours. | Interior Monologues 2010-10-22T20:37:00Z

It’s melancholy to look back on the past season and realize that my two favorite performances were the kind of thing that might go by the wayside in the Met to come. Is It the End of an Era at the Metropolitan Opera? 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

There is a touch of mystery that comes across when you're playing these melancholy, wounded characters. Luke Wilson: How it feels to be America's boyfriend 2010-08-04T11:01:00Z

Best subtitle From Arabian Nights: “Oh melancholy man tell me the truth - does your willy wiggle?” Cannes 2015, week two report: perfect Pixar but Gus goes gooey 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

His melancholy, along with his waggish humor, goes more unguarded in his songs. Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

It's an appealing synthesis, particularly on Tobacco Fields, in which every instrument, and Burgess's unusually delicate voice, shiver between melancholy and joy. Tim Burgess: Oh No I Love You – review 2012-09-27T20:57:01Z

But “Happytime” never approaches that show’s melancholy insight into the machinery of celebrity. Review: ‘The Happytime Murders’ Has Puppets as Nasty as the Rest of Us 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Monk’s gorgeous “Gotham Lullaby” gives the final section a tinge of melancholy. Dance Review: Les Ballets de Monte Carlo at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-18T01:14:18Z

They’re in single movements of two parts, but within those deceptively simple bounds, there’s immense variety of mood — sunshiny and melancholy, dancing and pensive. A Sprawling Recording Focuses on Scarlatti’s Sonatas 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Back in New York, I received a text from her that caught me off guard: “When you first wrote about me, you described me as melancholy,” she texted. Amy Schumer Doesn’t Care What You Think (That Much) 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

That combined talent reveals itself mainly in the melancholy, funny-because-it’s-painful tone of “Baskets.” How much Zach Galifianakis is too much? ‘Baskets’ pushes the limits. 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

On the one hand, I'm proud of my heritage and my melancholy, pugilistic people. McDonald's Shamrock Shake is back for St. Patrick's Day, but our easy homemade recipe has booze 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

For “I’m Not That Girl,” which is sung by Elphaba, the green-skinned wicked witch of the West, Mr. Brohn used muted strings, a harp and acoustic guitars to stress its melancholy mood. William Brohn, Who Made Broadway Orchestras Sing, Dies at 84 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

But what little light does peek through his melancholy affect is eclipsed by a tragedy that brings melodically horrible terms like “vacuolated lymphocytes” into his life. He Can’t Save His Daughter. Can He Save Himself? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

An undertow of melancholy tugs at Graham Swift’s characters, threatening to pull them under — or at least backward. Review: Graham Swift’s ‘England and Other Stories,’ a Darkness Across Time and Fates 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Its music is a continuous stream of melancholy longing. Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

In the center of the lobby, a folding screen of 10-foot-tall wooden soldiers, hinged together like paper dolls, face the colorful figure of a melancholy Gerda, who kneels in a bed of red roses. | A Snow Queen for Our Time 2011-02-02T19:17:16Z

No. These boys are all about bruised melancholy, layered vocal harmonies, warm electronica and guitars that veer from delicate to psychedelic. Why we're watching: Half Moon Run 2013-06-09T07:07:01Z

There’s a tinge of melancholy as Jair outlines the defining moments of his life. Meet the man living with Alzheimer’s who climbs the same mountain every day 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z

The pervasive feeling of detachment is meant to metaphor for a national sense of melancholy at the end of the 1960s. 5 great car movies 2011-04-29T19:57:21Z

His music is notable for its startling contrasts, with hauntingly beautiful interludes juxtaposed with dissonant outbursts and interwoven with solitary passages tinged with a Renaissance-flavored melancholy. Review: A Dark, Haunting Work by Michael Hersch Gets a Premiere 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Like her creator, Emer has green eyes with different-sized pupils, which reflect “some charismatic, universal, lighthearted melancholy, like she saw things at a distance, a gently ironic remove.” David Duchovny’s Truth Is Out There, Between Covers 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

The author of “Quiet” considers the role of melancholy in a resolutely upbeat society. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

This song began life as viral melancholy on TikTok, a brief portrait of someone stuck in the gravitational pull of a person who doesn’t deserve their care. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

He added that Mr. Maestri could embody not only Falstaff’s ebullience but also his underlying sadness and melancholy. A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z

Delivered in her powerful contralto, which echoes the melancholy gravity of Nina Simone, Baby Rose’s new songs hint at vintage soul heard from a contemporary, atmospheric distance. Baby Rose Writes Music With Intention, ‘Not to Fit Into a Box’ 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

And with the drink comes a kind of melancholy, a look backward at choices fumbled and prospects botched. Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, in Love and Battle 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

In the final solo, the music sounds a bit like a Chopin prelude, and the wraparound choreography for the unaffected Stephanie Terasaki even acquires some melancholy, some emotion. Review: Brian Brooks and the Endless Spiral 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Several of these stories dip their toes into melancholy. Review: John Cariani’s ‘Love/Sick’ at Royal Family 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

There’s definitely a melancholy mood to the image. ArtsBeat: Behind the Poster: 'Good People' 2011-01-11T22:00:33Z

It has a similar air of languid melancholy. New band of the day: Rare Times (No 1,465) 2013-03-05T16:56:16Z

Opener “Pretty Hurts”, as well as later tracks like “XO” and “Heaven”, pairs the cinematic reach of modern Top 40 pop with the patience and melancholy of post-808s & Heartbreaks hip-hop. Beyoncé Reviewed: One of Pop Music’s Most Important Moments 2013-12-16T16:28:45Z

There’s mischief in her eyes and smile, but she has a silent screen actress’s wistfulness and a gift for conveying an inner stillness that can suggest depths of melancholy. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

A signature Balanchine move — the jazzy, flopped-back high kicks from "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" — returns here in a completely different mood, now melancholy and fragile. PNB spins intimate 'Love Stories' at McCaw 2011-11-07T21:52:03Z

Hamlet Period staging of Shakespeare's tragedy of the melancholy Dane. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 14-21: 'Past Time,' 'Pocatello' and more 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

That sense of period renders everything ironic, melancholy. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z

Mr. O’Brien rejected the idea that he was still wallowing in his post-“Tonight Show” melancholy. Conan in the Wilderness 2011-03-10T22:56:57Z

Authors have written about the light of snow and the winter darkness in the alleys, the melancholy of the short summer and the sadness of the autumn. Read Your Way Through Stockholm 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

Clearly Eastwood is trying to strike a melancholy, unhurried tone, and some viewers are evidently swept away. "Hereafter": Clint sees dead people 2010-10-15T18:45:00Z

The performance of “Kullervo” that followed this introduction was remarkably colorful, full of vitality and also a deep melancholy. Thomas Dausgaard leads Seattle Symphony in another excellent Sibelius program with ‘Kullervo’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

There was a touching, melancholy scene between Alison and the newly happy Cole. ‘The Affair’ Season 2, Episode 10: A Sick Bad Guy 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

“It’s got a melancholy air, to be sure,” said Lawrence Wells, an expat American artist who was among the first to start renting a studio here in 2011. Opening a Door to a Secret Prague 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

At about the age of 50, during World War II, he shook off his melancholy and revived the ecstatic transcendentalism of his youth. The Week Ahead: June 20 ? 26 2010-06-17T14:39:00Z

“Little America” on Apple TV Plus tells melancholy yet ultimately upbeat stories of the immigration experience. Perspective | What to watch when you’ve seen everything else? Oh, now you want to hear from the TV critic. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

The Fifth Suite’s Sarabande was a long, sinuous exhalation of melancholy. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

The texture of the Occitan poem seems more light and rippling, so that weightlessness is predominant, and the melancholy mood enhanced by the falling cadences. Poem of the week: 'Time has disappeared/Lo temps s'es perdut' by Aurélia Lassaque 2013-02-11T11:28:12Z

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone so perfectly inhabit their melancholy characters, or so the chatter on the fall awards circuit is going, that they were born to play the roles. Fates in Filmmaking: Who Were the Wallflowers at the ‘La La Land’ Dance? 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

The first half of the evening — “Lewiston,” a melancholy family reunion set at a bedraggled roadside fireworks stand — operates within a small space even by Mr. Hunter’s miniaturist standards. Pull Up a Seat. Two Plays, Dinner and Western History Are Served. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

He is a liminal, anachronistic presence with his Victorian hand gestures and melancholy droop. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Furbank wrote in the Listener newspaper in 1962, “full of summery melancholy, fresh and stinging colors, luscious melody, and intense awareness of place.” Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

There is no dialogue in this part of “Tabu,” though ambient sounds and musical performances filter in, as if conjured by Ventura’s vivid and, yes, melancholy reminiscences. Movie Review: Miguel Gomes’s ‘Tabu’ 2012-12-25T22:44:18Z

Another recurring theme in his paintings is the world of theatre: melancholy actors and backstage scenes, in a dreamlike atmosphere of illusion and fantasy. Emilio Fraia on Stories Within Stories 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

In the case of Carter, Gordon traces an inner life of intense self-scrutiny, marked at times by melancholy desperation, an almost hysterical search for love, and periodic callousness toward family and friends. The unconventional life of Angela Carter — prolific author, reluctant feminist 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

If it went on a bit too long, it also brought unaccustomed laughs, as when the melancholy Jaques’s “All the world’s a stage” speech was dispatched with a single line. Review: The Bard as Bedtime Story in ‘Table Top Shakespeare’ 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

I can remember hearing melancholy before I quite knew what melancholy was. If only I knew what the lyrics meant 2012-09-16T17:00:00Z

Incredibly, the image, in context, bridges a tragic discussion about Kurt Waldheim, the Austrian diplomat revealed as a former Nazi intelligence officer, with reflections on the other Saturn, Rome's god of melancholy. 'Patience (After Sebald)' evolves into its own incredible journey 2012-05-10T20:29:04Z

But by 1907, Picasso’s Paris buyers had finally come around to the melancholy blue-period paintings redolent of death and mourning after the suicide of his artist and poet friend Carlos Casagemas. Review | How Picasso’s she-devils changed art forever 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Guy, who is Irish, and Girl, who is Czech, meet in Dublin and discover they share a knack for creating folk-rock tunes that ripple with melancholy and rue. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z

Its author might be a modern Chinese counterpart to Thomas Hardy, whose intensively observed dramas of rural life have a similar tone of beguiling, melancholy strangeness. Movie Review | 'Ghost Town': Zhao Dayong Fleshes Out Life in Remote China 2010-03-15T04:40:00Z

There's also a gorgeous, melancholy interlude midway through Act 2, marking the passage of 10 years as a curtain covered with double cheeseburgers shows Anna's figure giving way to the obesity of later years. Anna Nicole, the opera: She aims to sleaze 2011-02-18T01:35:12Z

A lot of the comedy comes right from the neediness in Mr. Farrell’s beady eyes and from his machinelike interpretation of melancholy. These Movie Scenes Might Not Be Important, but They’re Pretty Great 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The comparisons help put Krohn's body of work into context but do nothing to capture the ineffable, melancholy strangeness and beauty of her writing. 'Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction' yields writing of strangeness and beauty 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

His grief absorbs the grief of others, and his melancholy merges with the decaying landscape. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

The same poem contains lines of a brooding melancholy, as when he envisioned a river god rowing on the Hudson River near his apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan: John Ashbery, Prize-Winning Poet, Is Dead at 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Instead, he crafts a melancholy, dread-filled narrative that plays by its own rules. Stream These 10 Titles Before They Leave Netflix This Month 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

Creating a brighter, uncluttered environment can help ward off melancholy, especially for those who are spending most of their hours inside. Easy home hacks to help you fight SAD and kick the winter blues 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

Seydoux looks absolutely at home in the past; with that paleness and those sleepy pillows of flesh under her eyes, she resembles the melancholy young women in Manet paintings, heavy with absinthe and ennui. Léa Seydoux: ‘For Bond, you have to be up for it. I had to work, to get fit’ 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

With a touch of melancholy, she added: “I really believed in myself so much more than I sometimes do now. I really want to somehow harness that thing I had then.” Spring Preview: Idina Menzel’s Role in ‘If/Then’ Is Not Such a Stretch 2014-02-20T13:00:06Z

Kooser, however, eschews Larkin’s resolute and bitter melancholy, turning away from English angst to sound a still, sad music, a wholly American music, all his own. Poetry review: ‘Splitting an Order,’ by Ted Kooser

With each layer of concrete poured, and each foundation plotted for her new lakeside home, a look of melancholy washes over Ruth's eyes like clouds going over the face of the sun. "Ozark:" Too little, too late 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

As the series winds down — especially after Tony recovers — a sense of wistful “Is this all there is?” melancholy settles over several of the best episodes. ‘The Sopranos’ 20th Anniversary: Here’s Your Complete Guide to Rewatching It 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

They never move faster than midtempo and they often luxuriate in melancholy; they testify, above all, to loneliness. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

With his head slightly bowed, he has the air of a melancholy prince in a fairy-tale illustration, though he’s wearing a surgical mask and athletic shorts under a dark velvet cloak. An Unassuming Prince Dons the Velvet Cloak at Ballet Theater 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Underscored by composer and sound designer Eric Shimelonis’s melancholy bass and cello music, the nine performers speak their lines with gravity and soul. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

There was a comic brio in his best books, alongside an ever-present melancholy. Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Even through the welter of effects, Mr. Kelly’s voice holds some humanity: a streak of melancholy and a hint of gospelly aspiration. New Music: New Albums by R. Kelly and Parmalee 2013-12-09T22:29:43Z

When she considers the computer algorithms that increasingly mimic human speech and thought, for example, she rakes up melancholy anecdotes from others that thicken her own intellection. Review: Rachel Cusk’s ‘Transit’ Offers Transcendent Reflections 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

What did strike me was how gloomy and melancholy so many of the shorts were. Witty or gritty? What ingredients make the best short films? 2011-01-14T16:29:46Z

Her deep notes were rich and melancholy in the slow third movement, and she played the fourth with just the right mixture of refinement and rusticity. St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble Plays at the Morgan 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The score does have its quiet moments, most memorably the soothing choral music of the cathedral scene and the melancholy policemen’s ensemble in Act 3. Opera Review: 'The Nose' Pared Down to Its Essentials 2011-09-27T10:47:47Z

Ms. Sutter brought warmth to the elegant melancholy of the tango. Music Review: Wendy Sutter and Olga Vinokur Perform at Bargemusic 2013-07-15T21:40:35Z

His physicality and patter recede and he projects an odd melancholy. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Paradoxically light and melancholy, it hews to the border of fantasy but stays in the land of realism. Review | Children burst into flames in Kevin Wilson’s ‘Nothing to See Here’ 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

There’s a sweet new wave air to “La Loose,” and “Half Moon” is melancholy in a new way, with bracing, stately piano leading the way. On Waxahatchee’s ‘Ivy Tripp,’ Katie Crutchfield Sings of Emotional Debris 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Yet the last two lines of Night Subway are a lot less melancholy. Poem of the week: Night Subway by Katha Pollitt 2012-07-23T11:03:39Z

He often talked of her, recounting how their eyes had met while she watched him perform at the Ryman, and friends noted a sense of melancholy in Scruggs over his final years. Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs dies at age 88 2012-03-29T12:12:14Z

Ten poems, independent yet breathing the same air of memory and melancholy, begin in silence and end with a momentary gleam. Gloriana; 66th Aldeburgh festival – review 2013-06-22T23:05:50Z

The street was filled with fruit-and-newspaper venders, melancholy like farewells in the night. “Skylight” 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Fleetwood Mac can be moody and melancholy — but their music never loses its optimism. Why Fleetwood Mac's music resonated so deeply in 2020 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

“The Welsh, as part of the Celtic family, we’re melancholy,” he said. In ‘Perry Mason,’ Matthew Rhys Plays Defense 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

“The Woman in the Window” evokes two emotional states widely associated with the Covid-19 pandemic: real estate envy and the condition of melancholy drift that some psychologists call languishing. ‘The Woman in the Window’ Review: Don’t You Be My Neighbor 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The reality of fleshly deterioration and melancholy age is revealed almost as brutally as in a notorious portrait of the present Elizabeth by Lucian Freud. Fading queen 2013-02-13T15:46:04Z

This romanticized depiction of her is literally on display at the exhibit during this melancholy anniversary. Analysis | Princess Diana died 25 years ago but endures as a role model for women 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z

She emerges in the interviews as a fascinating, melancholy figure, fiercely intelligent and inherently self-dramatizing. Critic's Notebook: Changing Lives, One Game at a Time 2011-04-19T16:53:41Z

Franz Kline, another abstract expressionist, with whom she danced the tango, “had a sort of Bogart-like cool and melancholy.” New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’ 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

Cornell channeled Mother Love Bone’s glam-rock swagger on “Stardog Champion” and brought a melancholy ache to three “Temple of the Dog” tracks. Concert review: Pearl Jam at Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011-09-04T09:02:00Z

This melancholy recognition is one that is shared by all of us, no matter who our fathers — or we — are. ‘My Father, the Pornographer’: A literary detective story 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

“I saw the photograph,” he continues, in the voice of a melancholy choir boy: From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Saudade teaches us that a degree of melancholy in life is inevitable – desirable, even – and something to be savoured rather than ignored. Uncovering the secret to collective happiness | Helen Russell 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

And now that we’ve gotten an “In a Lonely Place” ending, suffused with ambiguity and melancholy, it’s worth explaining the connection between “The Night Of” and the 1950 noir classic with Humphrey Bogart. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Most of the song shares the melancholy of Nirvana’s original, but when the horns kick in in the second half – the part where the original grunges out with heavy guitars — Simpson takes it somewhere new. Sturgill Simpson’s brilliant Nirvana cover: Country singer breathes new life into “In Bloom” 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

With the wistful vocals of the ex-Beta Band man set free on a sea of dub, the melancholy undertow of the original is brought even further to the fore. Steve Mason and Dennis Bovell: Ghosts Outside ? review 2011-07-21T22:20:01Z

Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth,” a formally inventive, constitutionally melancholy Pulitzer Prize winner from 1942, usually ticks the box for yes. ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ Review: A Party for the End of the World 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

The band’s co-founder died in January, and his absence added a melancholy note to the finale. The Kennedy Center Honors: How sweet it is to be loved by the nation 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

It is fantastic: a nutty slice of punk fruitcake with an enormous wallop of melancholy. 'Awards chat makes me sick': Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz on new film, The Favourite 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

This appealed, he continued — and he spoke with the melancholy of an apostate — to “a kind of yearning one has to have a functionality to what one’s doing — for the works to have some function.” Review | Who wants to join the cult of video artist Matthew Barney? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The result is an enduring melancholy that no amount of ghouls or gore can entirely dispel. ‘Talk to Me’ Review: Letting the Wrong One In 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Harry and Hermione dance together wistfully, late one night, to Nick Cave's elegiac "O Children," in a scene that outdoes the rest of the series for melancholy poetry. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1": Harry Potter goes dark 2010-11-18T02:01:00Z

He reckons that most Hamlets are remembered for, and reduced to, one essential quality: "David Warner's melancholy Hamlet", or "David Tennant's quick-witted, mercurial Hamlet". Jonathan Slinger on Hamlet: 'I'm going to try to achieve the impossible' 2013-03-11T19:00:02Z

Whatever the medium, his compositions share the same somber, moody and sometimes melancholy disposition. Composer Max Richter's project designed to lull listeners to 'Sleep' 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Happy people don’t write to lonely-hearts columnists, so these appeals emphasize the more melancholy elements of tenement life. Books of The Times: ‘A Bintel Brief’ Is Liana Finck’s Graphic Book of Letters 2014-04-22T22:00:27Z

“The French and the Vietnamese shared a love for melancholy and philosophy,” the narrator says, “that the manically optimistic Americans could never understand.” Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

An autumnal air of melancholy seems to hang over Charles Todd’s elegant police procedurals featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard. Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column Exhumes the Murderous Past 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

King-Lu draws Cookie out of his melancholy diffidence, while Cookie calms some of his friend’s restlessness. ‘First Cow’ Review: The Milk of Human Kindness 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Dating back to 1977, “China Gates” is one of his earliest works, a short solo that’s a calm, steady precipitation of eighth notes: sometimes a smiling sunshower, sometimes a melancholy drizzle. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

But while his life had “moments of intense melancholy and despair,” merriment went largely uncurbed. Review | Francis Bacon was an elusive figure. A new biography presents novel details of his iconoclastic existence. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Who could stay melancholy when surrounded by interesting, funny kids who make paper hats out of their creative briefs, then spend 10 serious hours designing a bank logo that’s a perfect work of art? Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

This photographic suite, however, evokes morning-after melancholy less than mortality and decay. Review | In the galleries: Two photographers focus on the pastoral beauty of Arlington 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

His voice is a pearly, androgynous tenor, a vessel for liquid melancholy that blurs words at the edges. Review: RY X Stretches Pop Structures on ‘Dawn’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

A caroling session in a melancholy key, Theater Latté Da’s “All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914” is a World War I documentary musical describing a brief ceasefire. Review: In ‘All Is Calm,’ Thrilling Song in the Trenches 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

Lee brings bubbling, gossipy energy to the novel’s many light moments and a slower, melancholy introspection as the characters’ painful secrets emerge, erupting, finally, in an entirely satisfying denouement. The five best audiobooks of 2014

Mr. Albright’s intelligently wrought interpretation deftly conveyed both the melancholy and passionate elements of this enigmatic piece. Music Review: Young Hands Tackling Chopin?s Intimidating ?tudes 2011-03-09T22:47:17Z

The opening phrase of the final act turns out to be another form of the Tristan chord, only darker and even more melancholy, which emphasises the tension. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

It's a show in which the proportions of comedy to melancholy have been measured out with forensic attention. Stephen Fry's Twelfth Night: this all-male affair is no one-man show 2012-10-01T15:13:40Z

Seth writes and draws in a quiet midcentury style, suffused by a gentle melancholy that brings to mind the short stories of Alice Munro, who also lives in Ontario and is his favorite writer. From New York (Cool) to Palookaville (Melancholy) 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

The strain of finding fame and fortune at a young age seems to be taking a toll on Ocean, as many of the tracks on the album are infused with a deep melancholy. Frank Ocean Pours His Heart Out on Channel Orange: Album Review 2012-07-10T20:23:02Z

Gary seemed the outsider – a little awkward, unfinished around the edges; at times distant, melancholy; troubled even. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z

Paradoxically, he also finds his own isolation, loneliness and melancholy to be revealed in greater detail by the most profound wines. The Best Wine Books of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

“I’m really, really trying with this next Gorillaz record to do music that is not melancholy.” Blur, Hitting Madison Square Garden at Last 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Opening with melancholy solos on English horn and clarinet, the music sobbed, convulsed and roared in a macabre display of agonized grief. Music Review | American Symphony Orchestra: Loosening the Reins on Composers After Stalin 2010-03-01T05:50:00Z

The artwork’s imagined resident, a scientist, is melancholy because he is “watching the Gulf disappear in front of us, as we all are,” Mr. Dion said. In Prospect New Orleans, a Curator Guides 73 Artists Toward Higher Ground 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

There may be no clear path forward, but amid the melancholy Chariandy suggests it may be possible to endure, and even to thrive. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Minutes later, the stately melancholy of the piece's central slow movement was enhanced by subtle changes in the mountain twilight. In Leavenworth, the hills come alive with the sounds of chamber music 2011-07-15T20:42:37Z

And Shakespeare’s song “O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?” is moodily arranged to replace some of the melancholy lyricism that gets lost in the troupe’s relentless horseplay. A high-jinks-filled 'Twelfth Night' at the Wallis 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

He has reached the end of something, summed up with panache and great melancholy in this important show, and his accomplishment, not unlike E.U. membership, is easier to appreciate once it’s lost. The Disappearing World of Wolfgang Tillmans 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

His music marries triumph and melancholy, as if it were the soundtrack to natural-disaster footage or a documentary on large-scale agricultural machinery. Music Review: A Befuddling Sound, but Danceable Nonetheless 2011-08-16T22:40:01Z

This is the melancholy secret Mr. Cunningham knows and tells so well, time and time again: Happiness is as much something you remember as something you experience. Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

His voice and trumpet expressed a cosmic languor shaded with romantic melancholy. Review: ‘Born to Be Blue,’ Portrait of a Trumpeter as a Heroin Addict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

For Luigi Ghirri, an Italian photographer of memory and melancholy, a picture wasn’t something you took; it was something you fashioned. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

So many melancholy tales have been told about the tortured lives of comedians that the pertinent question about a new story is not whether the entertainer is miserable but why. Imagining the Unhappy Life of Stan Laurel 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The parents, however, fill out their thin roles with an authentic melancholy that “Sam & Kate” struggles otherwise to muster. ‘Sam & Kate’ Review: It’s a Family Affair 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

“I tend to write from the place that gives me the most inspiration, which is just feeling melancholy,” Granduciel said, noting his lifelong struggle with depression. The War on Drugs Can’t Stop Searching for Answers in the Music 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Yet people may still be surprised by the laid-back, jazzy and often melancholy sound on display here. Daft Punk's Random Access Memories – how do you rate it? 2013-05-14T11:28:39Z

Anniversaries can be distinctly bittersweet occasions, and even the most lavish family gathering or corporate spectacle never wholly dissipates a certain melancholy: Where have the years gone? Review | Something to celebrate: Four literary gems that have survived the vagaries of publishing 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

In Season 3, the grief and guilt of the boy’s family run as a counterpoint to a new case, deepening the sense of melancholy and abandonment that pervades the show. Review: ‘Broadchurch’ Ends Its Run as Entertaining and Moving as Ever 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

“Burnt Sugar” perfectly captures this story’s complex flavor, the taste of something sweet transformed into something deep and melancholy. Review | ‘Burnt Sugar,’ a challenging Booker Prize finalist, is hard to take, but harder to shake off 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

He refused to milk the melancholy of the sprawling 25th, maintaining an elegant restraint that coursed into the virtuosic combination of courtliness and dense, smoky chromatic fireworks in the late variations. Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

The opening shot of “Somewhere,” Sofia Coppola’s exquisite, melancholy and formally audacious fourth feature, prepares you for what is to follow in a characteristically oblique and subtle manner. | 'Somewhere': The Pampered Life, Viewed From the Inside 2010-12-21T23:13:01Z

What attracts me in general is melancholy in every form of art. Happy to be melancholy 2011-04-02T23:02:01Z

It had been his greatest nightmare, and inspired extreme melancholy, because it had seemed tantamount to an end to his composing and playing. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z

Despite frequent extended idylls, the animal's experience ultimately emerges as heartbreaking, with Dickon Hinchliffe's music used to strong effect in the more melancholy moments. Misguided experiment yields absorbing documentary 2011-01-24T04:21:27Z

In the best of them, he extrapolates melancholy narratives from Ruscha-esque Polaroids of motel exteriors — introducing emotion to a deadpan form. Art in Review: Jonathan Monk 2011-04-01T01:54:46Z

In Bengal, there was rejoicing that an unjust form of development had been rebutted; but there was also melancholy about the fact that Tata's departure confirmed that investment in the state seemed impossible. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z

This is music of stark shifts between celebration and melancholy, ballroom grandeur and drawing-room wistfulness, between forcefulness and expansiveness. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

He kept seeing the phrase “melancholy accident,” and he began keeping track of the incidents. ‘We have been failing with guns for centuries’: A new book chronicles lives lost 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

On the surface, the segue may have seemed odd: "Space Oddity" is slower and brooding, the melancholy musings of an astronaut hopelessly lost in space, not an upbeat celebration. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

Likewise, his refusal to offer easy resolution, which infuses the whole romantic enterprise with a kind of delicious melancholy. Review | In “Find Me,” André Aciman’s “Call Me by Your Name” sequel, returning home is bittersweet 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Simmons was inspired, he says in the film, by the Chicago basketball documentary “Hoop Dreams,” a film that cuts its melancholy with bolts of hope. Kanye West Always Wanted You to Watch 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

The comedies, especially, offer a vision of the world that encompasses humor high and low, hints of melancholy and even tragedy, songs of sadness and joy, and romance by the bushelful. Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ Anything Goes in Love and Shakespeare 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

Though I didn’t see darkness in Nick, I did see melancholy. ‘Devs’: How the Universe Brought Alex Garland and Nick Offerman Together 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

In melancholy cases, the spoken exchanges are mere interruptions of some livelier inner monologue. The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore. Week two: dialogue 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

This is one of 20th-century's music most heartfelt expressions of nostalgia and melancholy as well as tenderness. Heart strings 2013-02-14T15:21:00Z

For Burton, practically everything was a symptom of melancholy, and practically everything—from love, to solitude, to gambling, to cabbage—was listed as a potential cause. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

This time, he mixed in a few heartfelt, even melancholy notes into his virtuosic deadpan rhythms to eulogize the passing of a legendary comedy room. Dave Attell Bids a Heartfelt (and Hilarious) Farewell to Carolines 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

He was, according to Sims, a melancholy child, "plagued by wild fantasies and indefinable nostalgia", with a "vague sense of yearning and loss". The Story of Charlotte's Web by Michael Sims - review 2011-08-03T15:30:01Z

And there is an intriguingly melancholy strain in both his writing and in this mostly celebratory film. Review: Tastes of Los Angeles in ‘City of Gold’ 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

As Erica’s parents, Monte-Brown is at her best when unleashing a mother’s roar of grief, and Castillo grounds his performance in a crushing, pervasive melancholy. ‘American (Tele)visions’ Review: Tune In, and Buckle Up, for Family Drama 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Charles Simic, the renowned Serbian-American poet whose work combined a melancholy old-world sensibility with a sensual and witty sense of modern life, died on Monday at an assisted living facility in Dover, N.H. Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

A big, sturdy box containing hard-bound volumes, pamphlets and a tabloid houses Ware’s demanding, melancholy and magnificent graphic novel about the inhabitants of a Chicago building. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

“Marigold” is intermittently warm and tense, a more subdued and melancholy album than the ones that precede it. Pinegrove Reckons With the Past and Renovates Its Sound 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

But Romania’s revolution was more blood than velvet, and the humane, melancholy tone of “Kawasaki’s Rose” is in keeping with the Czech experience of totalitarianism and its aftermath. | 'Kawasaki?s Rose': The Interplay of Politics and the Heart 2010-11-23T23:43:00Z

They haven’t ended violently or tragically; at worst, I nearly run out of gas in the middle of Wyoming or end the trip feeling melancholy. What road movies tell us about travel — and ourselves 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

“Your feelings of longing or melancholy are often battling ambient sounds,” she said. An Invisible Artwork Reminds Austria of Its Nazi Past 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Tense as their lives are, they still live in a lovely San Francisco home that the kids purpled up with melancholy on the weekly. "Party of Five" reboots the '90s classic with a family orphaned by deportation 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

It’s also a novel that thrums with beauty, melancholy, and desire. “Something was wrong with Aunt Jane”: Brad Watson on the uncommon woman behind his new novel, writing difference and the appeal of “fly-over” country 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Sally Rooney’s new novel, “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” has the arid, intense melancholy of a Hopper painting. Sally Rooney’s Novel of Letters Puts a Fresh Spin on Familiar Questions 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Mouraria, whose tangled web of narrow streets dates to medieval times, was a cradle of Fado, the traditional melancholy Portuguese singing. Lisbon: The legacy of a fado past 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

And yet, if you’ve seen much of Mr. Abraham’s recent work, “Ash” may seem too familiar, nearly an extension of earlier solos, still meandering in the same troubled melancholy. Review: Kyle Abraham, Looking Gorgeous While Stuck in Place 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

That section of the dance, performed by women, is filled with images of melancholy, bodies crumpling to the ground, cheeks resting despondently on hands. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Two of Filipe’s uncles, for instance, returned from Africa but soon left again, one for Boston, one for Venezuela — part of Portugal’s continuing, melancholy diaspora. The rain forest destination Americans are missing out on 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Sure, it's tinged with melancholy and longing, but the prevailing satire and absurdity provide consistent laughs, and the chemistry between Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine is just irresistible. 5 funniest workplace movies 2011-07-08T22:27:03Z

But there was definitely a sense of melancholy in the air. Dana Carvey Remembers George Bush, From Muse to Friend 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

After a melancholy introduction, “Settle Down” launches into the reggae beats, Gwen-Stefani-drawled rhymes and sing-along-friendly chorus that listeners will recognize from favorite No Doubt songs like “Just a Girl” and “Spiderwebs.” No Doubt Releases New Single, “Settle Down”—Listen Now 2012-07-16T15:01:25Z

Lancashire, primarily known to American viewers from "Last Tango in Halifax" and "Happy Valley," presents Julia as a combination of savory and sweet, with a dash of bitter melancholy. The joy of HBO Max's Julia Child series, a deliciously affectionate celebration of an icon 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Gyllenhaal’s soft, moonish features, capable of collapsing into melancholy or hardening and sharpening in resolve, have rarely been less predictably used. The Kindergarten Teacher: is this Maggie Gyllenhaal's finest performance to date? 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

The melancholy sound of muffled music drifted across the cold night air. Rewind TV: Last Tango in Halifax; Homeland; The Aristocrats: Blenheim Palace; Gadget Man; Supersized Earth – review 2012-11-25T00:05:39Z

“How do you transform a kind of melancholy into action, into beauty?” she asks, contemplating “Hamlet.” Review: Weaving Memoir With Shakespeare to Find Her Father 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Martin Helmchen, one of today's finest young pianists, was the well-nigh perfect soloist in the Mozart, playing with refined muscularity and wonderfully alert to the melancholy poetry that lurk beneath the work's gracious surface. Hall?/Elder - review 2011-02-27T17:47:54Z

Ritualistic, mesmeric, melancholy, enveloping, the Third supplied sonic ambience in many a home that otherwise lacked classical trappings. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

He radiates a kind of moral melancholy that does not indicate a lack of resolve. Dramatic, inspiring 'El Poeta' targets Mexico's War on Drugs 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

At the same time, Mr. Kimmel added, the melancholy in much of Buckley’s music was preserved in several scenes, especially those involving Romeo. Jeff Buckley Songs for ?Romeo and Juliet? 2010-07-27T22:37:00Z

Episodic, occasionally lapsing into silence, filled with shifts in tempo, the melodies impossibly beautiful, it takes the melancholy at the heart of Wilson's greatest work – from Pet Sounds to Til I Die – and repurposes it. The Beach Boys: That's Why God Made the Radio – review 2012-05-31T14:29:01Z

But the fast tempo emphasized the farcical aspect of a scene that Mozart also injects with a touch of melancholy. Review: James Levine Opens Last Run as Metropolitan Opera Music Director 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

“A Simulacrum” aims for a similar if more subtle effect, in a more downbeat, even melancholy mood. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

The Slavic selections, with their congenital melancholy mixed with defiance, proved a particularly good fit for Mr. Beczala’s style. Review: In Piotr Beczala’s Recital, Melancholy Mixes With Defiance 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

However, instead of the heated emotions of the Cramer interview, Stewart ended his Miller interview on a melancholy note. Jon Stewart grills Judith Miller over her Iraq reporting 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

More bad things happen; the father preys on the growing daughter, Angelica; the tone is precise melancholy, muted outrage. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Raw, melancholy and unquestionably mature, “Hope” understands that some wounds may never be healed. ‘Hope’ Review: In Sickness and in Health 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

At the same time, the show is melancholy. Dance Marathon aims to exhaust Edinburgh festivalgoers 2011-08-05T17:28:06Z

There is a melancholy to her later years. An Intimate Portrait of Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Instead of rage, you get affectionate hindsight that cuts the pervasive melancholy. Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Their talk becomes more intimate and more revealing as the play progresses, and the comic tone becomes more melancholy as the themes of middle-age loss, self-knowledge and loneliness push through. Fringe Festival in Review 2010-08-18T21:22:00Z

I know he's not pretending – that's truly his mood, and it's very dark and melancholy and bitter and sad and detached and disturbed. Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could' 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z

LeBlanc is a raw, throaty singer whose songs balance self-absorption with an often beautiful, melancholy tunefulness. Dylan LeBlanc – review 2012-07-18T16:19:00Z

Restraint and a formal writing style, by a philosophy graduate from Cambridge University, give a tone of melancholy to this spectacularly accomplished, chilly debut collection of short stories about thwarted lives and opportunities missed. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

As a result, this rendition honors Hamlet as not just self-indulgently melancholy, but as grappling with legitimate, heartbreaking loss. Review: In a Powerful ‘Hamlet,’ a Fragile Prince Faces His Foes 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

It is also a defense of sorrow, an argument for the necessity of melancholy dressed in the bright colors of entertainment. Review: Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Finds the Joy in Sadness, and Vice Versa 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

He is finding meaning in collective remembrance and revealing a world, to borrow a phrase from Walter Benjamin, “under the gaze of the melancholy man.” ‘I Wish I Knew’ Review: A Melancholy Master’s Portrait of a City 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Shots of near-empty streets and an abandoned steel mill provide a melancholy frame for behavior that seems horrifyingly incomprehensible. ‘Roll Red Roll’ Review: A Horrifying Assault in a Small Ohio Town 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Moody, melancholy and dyspeptic, he allows his moods — in a very un-doctor-like manner — to color his reactions to people. Books of The Times: Roaming the Streets, Taking Surreal Turns 2011-05-18T21:30:05Z

For Crewdson, melancholy is as integral to his vision as a fog machine and the mystical caul of twilight. 'Gregory Crewdson': Zooming in on photographer's 'dramas' 2012-11-21T22:34:09Z

The novelist Rick Moody, an eminent Sebaldian — owing to both his love of Sebald’s work and his own similarly melancholy tendencies — displays a chart of the book’s interlocking motifs. Movie Review: ?Patience (After Sebald),? a Documentary 2012-05-08T22:32:23Z

In 1957, while studying printmaking there, Mr. Richter applied an ink roller directly to paper to produce cloudy, melancholy monotypes, wholly unlike the Socialist Realist imagery expected of an East German artist. 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

The melancholy result is that the painter with the spectacularly lulling voice, the hallmark ’fro and the liberating kindness remains a mystery; not the brand that’s made millions but the guy who touched millions. ‘Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed’ Review: No Gloss 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

He is, throughout, a vivid, complicated presence — witty, melancholy, well-dressed and soft-spoken. ‘Hallelujah’ Review: From Leonard Cohen to Cale to Buckley to Shrek 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Buster Keaton was an influence in forming a "mask of melancholy." In Coens' Cannes hit, Oscar Isaac gets his break 2013-05-21T13:42:10Z

His predominant tone of voice is melancholy, the tone of voice of a man who has been present for a great horror and lived to tell the tale. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

In 1919 Woolf wrote that her goal for her diary was “something so elastic that it will embrace anything,” words Ms. Johnson Cano sang with hope and a premonition of melancholy. Music Review: Virginia Woolf?s Words, a Singer?s Voice 2011-05-03T22:04:56Z

The film takes a melancholy turn when he finds himself alone in a harsh wilderness. Movie Review: Three Programs in ?Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012? 2012-02-09T23:35:18Z

That, at least, is one of the possibilities Sarah and Nyles entertain on their sometimes madcap, sometimes melancholy adventures in the eternal present. ‘Palm Springs’ Review: Déjà Vu All Over Again 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Like Lear, Beatrix Potter was equally accomplished with pen or brush and, like him too, much of her life was characterized by hard work, melancholy and the search for love. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

An attraction to melancholy was also innate, if counterbalanced by his increasing admiration for Berlioz. Henri Dutilleux obituary 2013-05-22T17:43:25Z

"The strength of the melancholy – it's travelled through all these years, and it speaks to people." Manfred Eicher: the sound man 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

She’s a soprano who merges sweetness with fervor, clarity and delicacy with a sense of sorrow and melancholy resolve. Music Review: Eleftheria Arvanitaki’s Adoring Fans Flock to Carnegie Hall 2014-02-02T22:52:03Z

He was a small, nervous musician with crossed eyes who wrote and performed melancholy songs. Modern Love: Speaking at Arm?s Length With Music 2011-02-24T22:56:15Z

The melancholy "Asleep" by The Smiths appears so prominently, it's practically a character itself. Review: 'Wallflower' a thoughtful teen tale 2012-09-20T03:27:14Z

And at night, one can still detect some of the melancholy that was subtly woven into Gehry’s original plan. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

An enticing dip into melancholy that urges you to lean closer to the speakers to fully feel everything that is being played and sung. Putting the world's music blogs on the MAP 2010-10-15T11:52:00Z

But as a new authorised biography reveals, the outrageous performer and raconteur had melancholy secrets that are only now emerging. Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man 2010-10-09T23:08:00Z

One of Judi Dench's great strengths, seen in countless Shakespearean heroines such as Viola and Beatrice, is her ability to combine ecstasy and melancholy, witnessed in abundance here. Peter and Alice – review 2013-03-25T23:00:01Z

On some tracks, a hazy, almost indiscernible hint of melancholy mirrors that August feeling that summer is creeping away. Beat Connection: The Palace Garden – review 2012-08-03T21:45:06Z

On rapper Slick Rick’s melancholy 1988 standout “Teenage Love,” he noted that even when high school relationships fizzle, it is “hard to turn back to the person who you were.” D.C. rapper GoldLink finds his breakthrough in the ruins of a relationship 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

“Something that carries through all my songwriting is this undertone of grit and darkness and melancholy,” she said. Music: Even Offstage, Lady Gaga?s Ready for the Stage 2011-05-18T13:02:40Z

The exhibition covers 60 years of his career, with shifting views and colors, from golden haystacks in windswept fields to melancholy silhouettes of the Parliament in London and the luminous, blue Contarini Palace in Venice. In France, a Rediscovery of Monet 2010-09-24T12:29:00Z

The ceaselessly wandering Dutchman, here a business traveler with rolling luggage, is more coolly detached than passionately melancholy. Critic’s Notebook: Evgeny Nikitin and Wagner’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ 2012-07-26T21:52:31Z

Aubrey Plaza would be a delight and those who saw her in Safety Not Guaranteed know she can act and be funny, melancholy and eminently watchable all at the same time. Lady Ghostbusters: who am I gonna cast? Hadley Freeman picks her team 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Young moved to an upright piano for "Singer Without a Song," a melancholy tune during which a young woman with a guitar meandered about the stage, adding a theatrical touch. Neil Young and band deliver two-hours of powerful jams 2012-11-11T22:07:01Z

There's a melancholy quality to a lot of her music. The growing cult of Cassie 2011-01-06T13:26:06Z

The melancholy had a lot to do with the fact that this person of bottomless energy and charm was slipping away. ‘A Lowcountry Heart’: Pat Conroy’s final words 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

One almost wishes that certain surly Scandinavians would join Instagram and unveil a series of grayscale compositions, reminiscent of slow TV, depicting various plushly melancholy accents. Beto O‘Rourke‘s Rebirth as a Knausgaardian Blogger 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The record ends with appropriate beauty and melancholy. In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock n roll immigration epic poem 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

There’s a knowing grin of local familiarity here, yet Washington also manages to present this melancholy, jolly story in the voice of a collective “we” that renders the collection universal. In Bryan Washington’s ‘Lot,’ Stories Reveal Houston’s Hidden Borders 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

The mad, the melancholy, the murderous; brothers, one a Union sympathizer, the other hot for the Confederacy; barnstorming Shakespeareans with lives out of Shakespeare: the Booth family could provide material for a dozen fascinating dramas. | 'An Error of the Moon': Redrawing a Picture of Lincoln?s Assassin 2010-08-31T02:01:00Z

It may not have the comedy disjunction of the more famous Creature Comforts short, from the same series, but the direct, untricksy treatment remains melancholy and even haunting. Aardman's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

She’s much given to sudden rhetorical gearshifts — she’ll swerve from a flight of melancholy lyricism straight into a thicket of profanity, shaking off her own eloquence like a bad mood. Are Her Characters Seeing Things? Maybe. Maybe Not. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

"Posthumously this is a great honor but, while you’re alive, oddly intrusive and melancholy." Russell Brand skipping SXSW premiere of his 'oddly intrusive' documentary 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

There is melancholy and intelligence in the finely painted woman of van Mieris, and great esprit in the figure of Metsu. Review | Ten Vermeers, but a whole world of Dutch art 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

A concert review in The New York Times described her as “a Yoda of melancholy” onstage. Ces?ria ?vora, Queen of Morna Singing, Dies 2011-12-19T00:23:26Z

He returned from college to sit at her bedside in a painful, melancholy scene. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

The monologue form helps to emphasize the feelings of disconnection among the characters, but it also renders this melancholy play static. Theater Review: Elizabeth A. Davis Stars in ‘Four Last Things’ 2014-04-30T19:25:04Z

The association of gothic buildings with “dark, brooding gloom” is “fundamentally misguided,” he said; they are “not monuments to melancholy.” A Controversial Restoration That Wipes Away the Past 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Pfeiffer delivers a sly, elegant performance as Frances, which provides the chief pleasure of Azazel Jacobs' film, a melancholy farce adapted by Patrick DeWitt from his novel of the same name. Michelle Pfeiffer brings sly elegance to the peculiar but charming "French Exit" 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z

In true Gordon style, the music tends violently percussive and extreme, relentless in its industrial repetitions, but with stark exceptions: a section of glassy harmonics, another of keening, drooping melancholy gestures. When a Critic Hosts the Premiere 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Instead, Eastwood’s film, which opens Friday, has more melancholy than your average musical, and gravitates toward the group’s tumultuous offstage personal lives. An unlikely harmony for Eastwood in ‘Jersey Boys’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

But Davies actually visits the places he writes about, and quotes their songs, defiant or melancholy as needs be. Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies – review 2012-10-09T08:59:01Z

In “ni fleurs,” Mr. Rizzo’s desolation and melancholy seeped into your skin: These dancers were also in a state of exile, but they hadn’t been abandoned. Dance Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Dances a Work by Christian Rizzo 2014-05-08T20:54:15Z

Yet at the end of the story, in the car home, she tells him of the affairs between the other guests and melancholy surges. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

This attention falters, however, as his songs turn back to a familiar, woozy melancholy. Dylan LeBlanc 2010-09-17T20:47:00Z

"So let's rather say that he is highly effective in exuding a careworn melancholy that disguises loss. He captures the hearts of the audience seemingly effortlessly." Keating 'liberated' by West End debut 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Sévère’s evanescent and delicate approach, abetted by the often too reticent pianist Paul Montag, was the same in both pieces, elegantly capturing Poulenc’s Gallic melancholy but proving too effete for the smoldering Brahms. Young French clarinetist in fine form in D.C. debut 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

America might have been worse off without such preachments: Calvinist tropes steeled Lincoln in his melancholy determination to assist the divine inexorability of bloody justice. Why did it take 10 years for America to leave Michael Jackson's Neverland? 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

As for the star, Neeson has whittled his winter persona down to a haggard nub of weary anger, purging any inkling of gentleness, melancholy or self-awareness. ‘Cold Pursuit’ Review: Liam Neeson Is a Killer Snowplow Driver 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Nobody’s Smiling is most profound at its most melancholy. REVIEW: Common Speaks to Chicago on New Album Nobody's Smiling 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

He said he was interested in “the melancholy of power, in the person of Boris.” Met?s Replacement Gets in Tune 2010-09-21T22:09:00Z

“Prayer” sets a tone of melancholy determination, with a quiet snare-drum march and the deep, wordless vocalizing of Abbey Lincoln. Review: Ailey Rages in ‘Survivors’ and Finds Humor in ‘Roy’s Joys’ 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

His band spices up pro forma punk chugging with festive, drunken horns on “Shock and Awe” and “The Next 20 Minutes,” but Mr. Liebsch’s melancholy can’t be softened. Playlist: Songs for the Feet, And Even the Heart 2010-10-08T15:49:00Z

At first he sees “only time, and dissolution,” but as he examines the objects, he finds himself “invaded by their poetic melancholy” and “fancying myself a privileged visitor to a past world.” Books of The Times: ?The Artist of Disappearance? ? By Anita Desai ? Review 2012-01-10T22:04:26Z

The LP closes with “Yefikir Engurguro,” a wistful original played alone on the piano, chords lapping into one another, making a melancholy tide. An African Funk Pioneer Gets a Second Chance on a Global Stage 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Yet Konwicki takes on, and rises above, those harsh and sombre decades with all the melancholy of resistance; with wit and mischief, and with fury, though shrewdly balancing the torment with tenderness. Tadeusz Konwicki lays bare Poland's 'ruined-modern' past 2011-04-06T11:54:51Z

The former’s bittersweet refrain of “All these sixteen hundred miles” swelled with melancholy. The Tallest Man on Earth brings added depth to new songs at Lincoln Theatre 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

But it was altogether true and devoid of the swelling music and melancholy that usually surrounds key deaths on the show. The Walking Dead recap: season six, episode nine – No Way Out 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

The film concludes on a melancholy note informed by Turner’s experience seeing Eugene O’Neill’s heart-rending play The Iceman Cometh at age nine. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets: the story of the drunkest film of the year 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

A melancholy, beautiful choralelike middle section teetered between dissonance and consonance. Music Review: Works That Make Technology an Ally 2011-06-01T22:38:12Z

With some melancholy, Mr. Lee said it was hard for him to keep up with the comic-book industry of the present day. ArtsBeat: Stan Lee, Still a True Believer, Spends a Day on AMC's 'Comic Book Men' 2012-09-10T12:32:06Z

The tree does not sigh for the elephant, the robin does not fret for the boar; they are not made melancholy or sleepless by the pastness of the past. Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot – review 2013-05-24T06:30:12Z

Hynde’s voice is special because it can evoke both off-the-cuff sass and heartbreaking melancholy. Review: Chrissie Hynde falls short on solo debut 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

“Notes” largely favors pensive acoustic guitars, bleary-eyed beats and melancholy orchestral flourishes. The 1975: Self-Aware, Self-Indulgent and, Yes, Sincere 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

His arrival does not, however, dispel the melancholy that pervades this deeply compassionate elegy on the confounding sorrows of day-to-day existence. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

The push into melancholy territory can be found in more ingratiating work, including specials by the most commercial stars. That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

Mob goons, college dropouts, melancholy widows and pink-haired rockers mix it up in this deliciously convoluted tale that reads like a fresh new season of “The Sopranos.” Best thriller and mystery books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Furst's deeply addictive books share certain traits: rugged, melancholy male protagonists; slowly unfolding plots; abundant atmosphere and vivid characters; and unexpected romantic sweetness in the midst of danger. Crime fiction from the world's hot spots, from Beijing to Sedalia, Mo. 2010-06-09T23:59:00Z

Perhaps echoes of his forcefulness — and his melancholy — seeped into Clarke’s work. Martha Clarke has made a career of movement. Now she cherishes stillness.

He’d carry it over to even greater effect with his 2001 follow-up, Unbreakable, but his overcast Philadelphia is less about creating a frightening atmosphere than imposing a deeper, more melancholy ambience over the action. The Sixth Sense at 20: the smash hit that remains impossible to define 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

And yet these images’ profound stillness, a marked quality of their beauty, imbues all—even youth—with a fragrant and sensuous melancholy. Mississippi History 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

The 2012 “Solo Echo,” set to Brahms and inspired by a Mark Strand poem, “Lines for Winter,” offers seven dancers a melancholy journey through a frosty world. On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

I think that I was always looking for a project where I can express that type of melancholy. "Connected through inyeon": Teo Yoo reflects on the fate that guided his career and to "Past Lives" 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

“First Time Joy” brings the album to what initially feels like a contemplative close, with wistful lyrics and melancholy orchestration. Album review: Bob Mould, 'Silver Age' 2012-08-31T17:46:00Z

Unlike his previous films, with their mischievous pleasure and tender melancholy, this was straightforward and serious storytelling with only a few moments of shivery humor. Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director, Is Dead at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

The effect was romantic and quirky and charmingly melancholy, which is her signature. The Meghan Markle Non-Effect 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Reading Charlotte Van den Broeck’s beguiling book about architects and melancholy on a blue and gold September day, I found it impossible not to think of the twin towers. The Buildings That Drove Their Creators to Despair 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

Leaning with one elbow on a large, open book, her long hair flowing over its pages and a skull nestled under her arm, she gazes heavenward with a pious, melancholy expression. Art Review: Italian Paintings From the Feigen Collection, at Yale 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z

The siblings found their mojo pretty quickly - mining a rich seam of understated, melancholy electro-pop which, in turn, prompted the band's pun-tastic name. Broods: New Zealand's next pop export 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Luckily, there’s “Our Greatest Year” to buoy the festival, albeit in a melancholy way. | Comic Book Theater Festival: It?s a Convention of Superheroes, Taking Over a Stage and a Nearby Van 2011-06-21T21:30:35Z

“Bars are generally happy places with a bit of melancholy,” Mr. Yu said. In Houston, Food and Drink Elevated by Two Local Stars 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

It is perhaps not surprising that Sebald’s characters — most of whom are travelers or flâneurs of one kind or another — write as if steeped in melancholy. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

And it seems to me that although neither the medicine nor the ailment is defined, the affliction in question that Atwater’s interlocutor tries futilely to treat must be melancholy. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

“Boston Med” maintains a balanced tempo that captures both the rushed intensity of hospital life and the contemplative melancholy and inspiring buoyancy that suffuses the experience of patients and their families. | 'Boston Med': Inside Boston Hospitals, Where Reality Is Real 2010-06-23T23:58:00Z

When it is finally played up by the flute, it seems to lift up, its inherent melancholy sublimated into a spiritual dimension. Review: Intimate Schubert Expands to Fill the Orchestra 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

As the day began its descent into evening, I couldn’t help but feel a bit melancholy. Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

So it was with melancholy mixed with anger that Mr. Momtazi gestured up the hill one Thursday in August and pointed at Mr. Wagner, who was tending to his plants. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The work is also steeped in a more melancholy sort of remembrance; one piece is subtitled after the late painter Noah Davis. Artist Mark Dutcher's 'Time Machine' sputters 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Just sturdy verbs, a casual flowing power, tantric masculine reticence, a melancholy sense of a sidewise-drifting life, little humor. Review: ‘Barbarian Days,’ by William Finnegan, Details a Surfer’s Pilgrimage 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Then he asked the melancholy question that seemed to sum up the week. How Damar Hamlin’s Recovery Allowed Us to Breathe 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z