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Spanning 60 years, Anne Tyler's novel is a melancholic story of a mismatched marriage.
ECONOMIST: Books of the year 2004
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She had a wary, melancholic air and was curled up in a chair, as though recoiling from the camera that she knew was embedded in the wall behind her husband.
NEWYORKER: Looking for Someone
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Everything seems poised for a great finale, with the melancholic afterglow of a good Raymond Carver story.
NEWYORKER: The Good Girl
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Christ also has a strange, melancholic smile on his face, perhaps unique in all paintings of the deposition.
WSJ: Il Rosso Fiorentino | Deposition | A Maelstrom of Grief | Masterpiece by Peter Plagens
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The only person to emerge from the wreckage with any credit is Thomas Haden Church, who finds a grainy, melancholic streak in the unstoppable Sandman.
NEWYORKER: Spider-Man 3
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Once, in a fit of melancholic vanity, I burned my report card in the sink of the KFC where I worked scraping carbonized grease from the pressure cookers.
NEWYORKER: Where I Learned To Read
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The Captain is a captain again, his melancholic depression no contest for my cancer yes, I feel like a winner, Chase.
NEWYORKER: Lostronaut
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He struck a tone not of Voltairean Parisian rancor but of melancholic loft.
NEWYORKER: Facing History
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Supergiant Blues has a forlorn quality to it, but even the most melancholic moments on the EP are tinged with an ethereal quality that feels hopeful.
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Not only do the nostalgic old tango dancers have a renewed sense of pride in the tradition, foreigners are doubly entranced by the melancholic tango.
BBC: Anyone for tango?
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Nightly shows, which kick off at 9 pm, take place in a glorious 18th-century patio full of eerie shadows and cascading greenery, and are complemented by hauntingly melancholic music.
BBC: Seville��s legendary flamenco scene
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While you might get louder laughs at a comedy night, this exhibition does something more interesting by covering the full gamut of what humour can be - melancholic, witty, satiric, tragic and playful.
BBC: The weird world of laughter