Definition of MELANCHOLIC

Examples of melancholic in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples of melancholic from the Web

This melancholic presence, a melding of the spiritual and the workaday, watches in sober silence as his partner mourns him, and eventually moves on.

— stephanie zacharek, Time, "A Ghost Story Chills-and Makes You Wonder," 13 July 2017
A melancholic tune that blends orchestral balladry with a rhythmic bass, the BTS member put his all into his solo song on the group's Billboard 200-ranked album Wings. 3.

— tamar herman, Billboard, "Get To Know BTS: Jin," 30 June 2017
The story employs a contrasting palette of melancholic grey-blue and irritable pale orange—a faint but omnipresent color clash that mimics the hidden tensions of the couple’s marriage.

— rowan hisayo buchanan, The Atlantic, "The Cartoonist Who Makes You Look Twice," 18 June 2017
Season Kent, 13 Reasons Why The use of emotional, melancholic music in the Netflix drama about a high school student’s suicide has drawn comparisons to John Hughes' coming-of-age films. 2/3.

— melinda newman, Billboard, "How Music Supervisors Landed An Emmy Category To Call Their Own," 8 June 2017
Given the introspective nature of the work, these lapses do not negatively affect the sublimely melancholic mood.

— heather grevatt, idahostatesman, "Idaho author probes nature of heroes in debut novel," 2 June 2017
In the first movement, which begins with a melancholic solo theme for violin, Mr. Waarts tapped into tensions within the Neo-Classical veneer of Prokofiev’s music.

— anthony tommasini, New York Times, "Review: 56 Years Presenting the Best of Young Artists," 17 May 2017
The second film is overall a far slower, more melancholic affair.

— sophie brown, WIRED, "Music Week: Confessions of a Soundtrack Geek – Part One," 9 Aug. 2011

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