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Adjective
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Never as rich as its aesthetics intimate, the U.S. met the nineties financially—and, therefore, spiritually—depressed.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
10 May 2025 -
Though fun is a funny word to use considering Thunderbolts is all about depressed anti-heroes looking for a sense of purpose.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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Working from a straightforward screenplay co-written by Félix de Givry, Bienvenu balances the melancholic aesthetics with a narrative filled with optimistic threads.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2025
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The moment is touching, melancholic, and quietly powerful—underscoring that Sinners is about more than bloodlust.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Their presidential candidate, Erika Meza, a 25-year veteran teacher from the Southeast Side, is unhappy with what CTU has come to symbolize.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2025
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However, the Palestinians are unhappy with the speed of FIFA’s inquiries.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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For someone who prizes roadside Americana, this is the visual version of the sad trombone sound.—
Christopher Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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After the show, there's booze, girls, and hotel suites, but Abel's locked in the bathroom, being sad.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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Certainly many people will come — or watch at home — out of morbid curiosity.—
Jocelyn Noveck,
Boston Herald,
9 May 2025
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Yet the morbid final phase of Twain’s writing, though always less popular (in part because much of it was unpublished during his life), is to my taste still sublime.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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At this point, armed with insights about labor, the commodity, and the money-form, the reader may be shedding any melancholy incomprehension—but can’t yet have arrived at angry lucidity.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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The lyrical content of Vernon’s records have long been marked with a tinge of turmoil, and his tendency towards heavy introspection has, at times, cornered him into a trope of a melancholy, lovesick songwriter.—
Leah Lu,
Rolling Stone,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Jackson was inconsolable on the drive home in 1988, convinced that the men didn’t believe her.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
12 May 2025
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Practically inconsolable, Nate perked up when Frederick, older by two years, had a suggestion: Come play basketball with me instead.—
Lindsay Schnell,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Kopitar then led the annual sorrowful handshake line with the Edmonton Oilers.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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The most powerful performance —compressed, sorrowful — comes from The Matrix's Joe Pantoliano.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Suicidal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suicidal. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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