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Recent Examples of melancholia
Marked by a graceful melancholia and filled with daunting technical feats, especially the director’s signature, logistics-defying long takes, his films are beautifully realized meditations on nostalgia and loss in which the cinema tends to be a character itself.
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
All the same, Cronenberg gives the material an appropriately wintry melancholia, while coaxing an iconically intense (and quotable!) performance from his star, Christopher Walken.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
There is also some melancholia into becoming the early-20th century version of being caught in an undesired viral moment.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
The cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich contended that the existence of mass festivals can be a tonic for grievous states of melancholia and widespread disenchantment.
—Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
All the same, Cronenberg gives the material an appropriately wintry melancholia, while coaxing an iconically intense (and quotable!) performance from his star, Christopher Walken.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
There is also some melancholia into becoming the early-20th century version of being caught in an undesired viral moment.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
The cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich contended that the existence of mass festivals can be a tonic for grievous states of melancholia and widespread disenchantment.
—Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melancholia
Noun
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Lacy’s new music maintains his sly sense of humor, but with a barefaced melancholy that pushes it to new emotional depths.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
14 Aug. 2025
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More often than not, the film’s nostalgia is sweet and enjoyable because it is paired with the melancholy that comes from all the acknowledgments of the actors from the original who died over the last 29 years.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
30 July 2025
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These movies commit to the dusty interior decoration and inherent sadness of their ghost stories, but have little feel for the profound interfamily dynamics therein.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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So many of Lee’s memories of her mother are tinged with sadness and grief.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Not that Paul, 42 years old and newly divorced, is overly inclined toward self-pity.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
29 Aug. 2025
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Because what's the legacy of your mother was killed by your father, who then, in a fit of self-pity and fear, killed himself?—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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In fact, situationally bound negative emotions about a specific issue did predict more action, indicating that temporary negative feelings can motivate behavior, but general unhappiness does not.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The declining mental health of the young and the global disappearance of the unhappiness hump shape in age.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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Despite his dejection, Adam Fox had reason for hope.—
Peter Baugh,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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Ferran is just as compelling when such vibrancy and vitality gives way to dejection and disharmony as her aspiring writing career grinds to a halt and her health starts to deteriorate.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
2 May 2025
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Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet imagined the relationship between the Bard and his spouse as an intimate tale of lust, compromise, joy, resentment, support, and sorrow.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Jolie nonetheless manages to bring some palpable life to the role, complicating her otherworldly magnetism with a dawning dread and sorrow.—
Richard Lawson,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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This is a club that has endured more than its fair share of doom and gloom in recent times.—
Graham Ruthven,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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On the floor of Orient Craft, which exports about 82% of its products to the US, gloom is settling in.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
30 Aug. 2025
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Some will experience that genuine psychic break with Zionism that many white South Africans did with their country’s system of oppression.—
Jack Sheehan
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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And perhaps worst of all, inflating every slight into oppression cheapens true injustice.—
Jonathan Alpert,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Melancholia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melancholia. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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