melancholia

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Recent Examples of melancholia 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 In many ways, Landman is the chillest entry in the Sheridan-verse, which is typically packed with violence, melancholia, and dudely grouchiness. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024 But these are broken songs, and the person singing them is in a state that fluctuates from euphoria to madness and melancholia. Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for melancholia
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Noun
  • Only two divorcees responded with anything remotely reminiscent of misty-eyed melancholy.
    Hannah Pittard, People.com, 8 July 2025
  • But the title track from his 1969 LP — a platinum-seller enshrined in the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry — is perhaps his most impressive harmonic achievement, with a key change in the verse that lends a touch of melancholy to the song’s message of protest.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • The man in this song is not a self-pitying breast-beater, begging for a handout, but a man proud of what his hands had contributed to the wealth of the country.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 22 June 2025
  • Pixar has never hesitated to show childhood tumult before, or to explore the feelings that might lead someone to act out, but Elio’s combination of mourning and self-pity are a genuine challenge.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Despite his dejection, Adam Fox had reason for hope.
    Peter Baugh, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett also condemned the shooting and expressed his sorrow for the parents of the victims.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2025
  • We are filled with unbearable sorrow and despair at our loss.
    Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • And creator Sarah Williams does a remarkable job transitioning from early storylines about a big, warm, eccentric family to later episodes that weigh Diana and Unity’s monstrous choices without succumbing to doom and gloom.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
  • There was just one happy ending amidst all this doom and gloom, as Sae-byeok (Hoyeon) got her wish from beyond the grave.
    EW.com, EW.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Douglass’s decision to speak on July 5, deliberately after Independence Day celebrations, symbolically underscored his argument: America’s celebration of freedom was bitterly ironic and deeply hypocritical in the context of slavery and racial oppression.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 4 July 2025
  • Not from tyranny, oppression or persecution, but from annihilation.
    Rob Day, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Texas stands united in mourning and in our resolve to support those who strive to heal and recover.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 9 July 2025
  • Beneath the inevitable finger-pointing and politicizing, there is often a genuine, even desperate, human impulse to find fault not out of malice, but out of mourning and a desire to find solutions.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025

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“Melancholia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melancholia. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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