Examples of melancholic in a Sentence

she becomes quite melancholic when she reflects on all the lost opportunities of her life

Recent Examples on the Web This tale of a gently dysfunctional family comically moving from one disaster to the next is enhanced by a perfectly melancholic soundtrack (Nico, Nick Drake, and Vince Guaraldi) and easy pace. — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2022 Aguadilla’s native son writes from the melancholic point of view of a campesino, or country folk, and sings to the daily practice of earning life necessities through harvesting and manual labor. — Marjua Estevez, refinery29.com, 15 Sep. 2022 There’s dark sadness, but then there’s melancholic sadness. — Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022 This upbeat pop album with heartfelt ballads, is a combination of melancholic pop powered by thumping beat tracks. — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2022 In this strange, dreamlike world the two solitary souls gradually start to develop feelings for one another… A melancholic love story with a mesmeric atmosphere and striking visuals that proves Greek cinema has lost nothing of its originality. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 31 May 2022 Beautiful lighting and water effects, coupled with a subdued, rusty color palette imbue the game with a lovely aesthetic that’s enriched by composer Joel Schoch’s restrained, melancholic soundtrack. — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022 Filmmaker Christos Nikou — with a co-sign from executive producer Cate Blanchett — turns this melancholic sci-fi fable about a society struck by an ongoing amnesia pandemic into a quietly profound meditation on love and loss. — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2022 But as Francie’s home life becomes more chaotic—his glumly alcoholic father (Scott Stangland) treats Francie and his melancholic wife (Andrea Lynn Green) with a casual brutality—Francie begins to lash out in more destructive ways. — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022 See More

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History and Etymology for melancholic

Middle English malencolic, melancolyk "consisting of or caused by black bile, irascible, gloomy," borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French melancolique, borrowed from Latin melancholicus, borrowed from Greek melancholikós, from melancholía "black bile, melancholy entry 1" + -ikos -ic entry 1

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