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- noun Plural form of
melancholic .
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Examples
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It's the way that Baxter lovingly teases anguish, humor and heart-rending beauty out of clear, unaffected sentences describing the gray-clouded interior worlds inhabited by his cast of largely Midwestern melancholics.
'Gryphon: New and Selected Stories,' by Charles Baxter: Short but potent 2011
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But recently, the 1980s pop star Morrissey lead singer of Mancunian melancholics The Smiths told a radio program that he'd like Penguin to publish his autobiography, "but only if they published it as a Classic."
What's So Super About Super Injunctions? Sam Leith 2011
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It's the way that Baxter lovingly teases anguish, humor and heart-rending beauty out of clear, unaffected sentences describing the gray-clouded interior worlds inhabited by his cast of largely Midwestern melancholics.
'Gryphon: New and Selected Stories,' by Charles Baxter: Short but potent 2011
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Others, the simple melancholics, experienced “an excessive or altogether unjustified depression…a susceptibility for the unpleasant and wearing aspect of things only.”
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Some melancholics have called it, “The Dark Night of the Soul.”
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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Some melancholics have called it, “The Dark Night of the Soul.”
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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Some melancholics have called it, “The Dark Night of the Soul.”
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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Some melancholics may be mistaken, Freud argued, but the validity of their self-evaluations is not germane to the question of whether they are suffering from melancholia.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Some melancholics have called it, “The Dark Night of the Soul.”
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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Some melancholics have called it, “The Dark Night of the Soul.”
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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