We might want to return to a simple definition of mental illness offered by Aristotle: "If fear or sadness lasts for a long time, it is melancholia.
His voice is often sampled, distorted by synthesizers, his lyrics broken into elegiac fragments, shards of thoughts, mantras of melancholia.
Being wealthy and intense young New York intellectuals, Kit and Port Moresby glibly fell into lingo so appropriate that Noel Coward might have written it in a fit of melancholia.
‘This Is the End’ latest movie to have fun with apocalypse NEW YORK — The Earth has been coming to an end with comic frequency. We’ve seen tsunamis sweep the oceans (“2012”), the world freeze over (“The Day After Tomorrow”) and a rogue planet bear down (“Melancholia”). So many have been patrolling a desolate Earth — Will Smith (“After Earth”), Tom Cruise (“Oblivion”), a cute cleanup robot (“WALL-E”) — that even the post-apocalyptic world is getting ...
June 13, 2013 - The News-Herald
The end of the world, turning on a comic axis NEW YORK (AP) — The Earth has been coming to an end with comic frequency. We've seen tsunamis sweep the oceans ("2012"), the world freeze over ("The Day After Tomorrow") and a rogue planet bear down ("Melancholia"). So many have been patrolling a desolate Earth — Will Smith ("After Earth"), Tom Cruise ("Oblivion"), a cute cleanup robot ("WALL-E") — that even the post-apocalyptic world is getting ...
June 12, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
'This Is the End': The end of the world, turning on a comic axis The Earth has been coming to an end with comic frequency. We've seen tsunamis sweep the oceans ("2012"), the world freeze over ("The Day After Tomorrow") and a rogue planet bear down ("Melancholia"). So many have been patrolling a desolate Earth — Will Smith ("After Earth"), Tom Cruise ("Oblivion"), a cute cleanup robot ("WALL-E") — that even the post-apocalyptic world is getting crowded.
June 12, 2013 - Kingston Daily Freeman
Shirley Povich in TexasRangers.com If there was no general wet-eyed melancholia in the stadium, there were still unmistakable pockets of bitterness,Shirley Povich wrote in the Washington Post. "From the upper stands hung banners spelling out four-letter words in large...
Gordon Parker in ABC Science Online Clinical depression in the old days was black melancholia,says Parker. "Now we've got blue becoming the new black."
David Gray in Canoe.ca Gray describes the next record as more of "a mood piece." "I'm always writing low-key music that's quite mellow. The sort of feisty numbers that really convince you are few and far between, but the sort of melancholia, there's always lots of...