Melancholia in A Sentence

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    Cracking Up bursts with joyously melodic verve, while Blue Bottle takes a turn through spare acoustic blues melancholia to artfully naïve effect.

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    Having suffered from melancholia, presumably brought on by an unmentionable disease, he was moved to a sanatorium in 1919.

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    He had been from his early youth subject to fits of melancholia, and during several short periods was actually insane.

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    Horrible mental depression and melancholia are present, and there may be hallucinations of vision and hearing passing into violent delirium.

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    In Vertigo he really gets beneath the skin of a deranged romantic obsessive who develops acute melancholia.

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    Throughout his life, but particularly in the later part of it, he was subject to prolonged fits of melancholia, during which he would not even speak.