His influence is palpable in her lighting, in occasional compositions and in a general tenor of sweet, melancholy poetry, but she is far more committed to staged tableaus and symbolic gesture than he, and her voice is her own.

The sentiment, far from being merely hard, as the sentimentalists pretend, has a vein of melancholy poetry running through it which calls to mind the traditions of La Rochefoucauld's devotion to the romances of chivalry.

His paintings, with their bright colors and their melancholy poetry, survived longer than all the others, following the fall of the wall in 1989.

It was performed by Marc Mann to a sound collage by Christian Canciani that included a taped reading of chill, melancholy homoerotic poetry.

Broodthaer's early objects, like the 1964 "Belgian Suitcase" holding plastic eggs and a broken umbrella, or the 1968 "Panel of Mussel Shells," were explicitly indebted to the Surrealist works of Magritte, Duchamp and Joseph Cornell, but have their own melancholy poetry of desire sublimated into appetite.

He wrote melancholy poetry in addition to dry humour.

Nauru's denuded landscape evokes a melancholy poetry - a craggy, treeless moonscape interior, some startlingly green cliff s and a windswept ocean complete with swooping seabirds.

The gentleness of the unfolding and the contemplative insights offered into each individual's feelings and motives, the naturalistic mise en scene enveloped in shadowy sepia tones imbue a familiar, ordinary tale of Indian life with melancholy poetry.

Yancey's knights lack the melancholy poetry of their ancestors; they seem like something out of a video game, or at best a Hollywood movie.

Lighted from behind, his small, brushy pastoral landscapes have a remarkable naturalistic luminosity and his surrealistic visions of trees growing from small boats have a dusky, melancholy poetry (Johnson).