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Melancholia or melancholy (from Greek: µέλαινα χολή melaina chole, [1] meaning black bile) [2] is a concept found throughout ancient, medieval, and premodern medicine in Europe that describes a condition characterized by markedly depressed mood, bodily complaints, and sometimes hallucinations and delusions.
From about 1990, he wrote and sang his own songs, mysterious poems evoking an atmosphere of mortality, lonely, marginalised characters, and wistful melancholy. [citation needed] He gave regular concerts in St Michael's Church, Highgate. His music has been played on BBC Radio 3, he has performed in Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The book takes its title from a verse from Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress": "The grave's a fine and private place,/But none, I think, do there embrace."The setting is the fictional Yorkchester Cemetery, where Jonathan Rebeck, a homeless and bankrupt pharmacist who has dropped out of society, has been living, illegally and unobtrusively, for nearly two decades.
The wistful, melancholy music of Nino Rota lends these vistas a dreamy familiarity. We then jump from color to luminous black & white, and a quick glimpse of Federico Fellini's 1963 masterpiece, 8½ , in which the monumentally buxom harlot, La Saraghina, is preparing to perform her rumba on the beach for a flock of fugitive schoolboys.
That's why you should put your records on and embrace the wistful melancholy of the Red era. This album isn't just about heartbreak; it's about finding yourself in the middle of the storm and ...
Bryan, 28, took to Instagram on Tuesday, October 22, to share a snippet from a yet-to-be-released song with a melancholy tone. "Recall when we went to Rockaway Beach / Summer heat in eastern ...
Saudade (English: / s aʊ ˈ d ɑː d ə /, [1] plural saudades) [a] is a word in Portuguese and Galician denoting an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent someone or something.
She could be straight out of a melancholy Tennessee Williams play but Hellman’s harsher story refuses to indulge in wistful visions of soft lives built on hard slave labour. Benjamin and Oscar ...