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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.
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Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Expats is a bit of a mess, a shambolic drag that cosplays Wong Kar-Wai melancholia while performing perfunctory class criticism, but the Prime Video series does have two things going for it.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
In this unorthodox history, Moon, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, casts aside the traditional, heroic portrait of the English ceramicist and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood and envisions the potter as a symbol of Britain’s post-colonial melancholia.
—The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Harnessing Nordic melancholia to laugh at the misery of capitalist malaise, Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki makes movies about people who don’t say much but feel plenty.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
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Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Expats is a bit of a mess, a shambolic drag that cosplays Wong Kar-Wai melancholia while performing perfunctory class criticism, but the Prime Video series does have two things going for it.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
In this unorthodox history, Moon, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, casts aside the traditional, heroic portrait of the English ceramicist and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood and envisions the potter as a symbol of Britain’s post-colonial melancholia.
—The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Harnessing Nordic melancholia to laugh at the misery of capitalist malaise, Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki makes movies about people who don’t say much but feel plenty.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melancholia
Noun
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Chu's main input was slowing down the song's pacing overall, leaning into the melancholy of the moment.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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Gyuri Kim, with her feeling for melancholy and uncertainty, turned out to be a wonderful counterpart.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
21 Mar. 2025
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In our very own century, a president of the United States has mangled the meaning of witch hunt beyond anything but self-pitying victimhood.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
14 Apr. 2025
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The Ballad of Wallis Island Rated PG-13 for inoffensive bird-watching and offensive self-pity.—
Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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The dejection stemming from Wagner’s knee injury gave way (for a moment, anyway) to pure elation.—
Josh Robbins,
The Athletic,
22 Dec. 2024
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The waves of emotions — from dejection to hope to numbness to jubilation (for him) and relief (for me) — are something neither of us will forget.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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And then, to forever live on earth, in a place with conflict and pain and sorrow, that’s not her goal.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2025
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In churches like this, where belief is expressed in multiple languages, the loss of a pope is a death in the family, and the sorrow, like the faith, runs deep.—
Janet Shamlian,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2025
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And yet the announcement wasn’t all doom and gloom.—
Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Despite all the doom and gloom and the difficult comparison to past recessions, some analysts still see green shoots.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2025
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Between 1975 to 1992, nearly 2,000,000 Vietnamese risked their lives fleeing oppression after the Vietnam War.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Instead, his hallucinatory drama explores themes like Black assimilation, imperial white oppression, eroticism, and the uneasy relationship between religion and power.—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
26 Apr. 2025
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But the central conceit is almost unspeakably moving in its deranged, borderline necrophiliac way (Cassel’s mourning mogul can’t bear the thought of not knowing what’s happening to his wife, even after death), and Cronenberg is savvy enough to spike his lament with a little self-critique.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Francis' funeral marks the beginning of a nine-day period of mourning called the Novemdiales, with special masses each day.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Melancholia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melancholia. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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