Here, now, Leilani was overcome with a pleasant if melancholy sense of what might have been-but never would be.

Some unimportant conversation followed, but all the while I was dom- inated by a melancholy sense of the great change in him.

I merely looked at her with a deep and melancholy sense of loss.

The simultaneous existence of past and future is obviously meant to create a barbed, melancholy sense of how time devours hopes and lives.

Nowadays gazing at the world's luckiest people produces only envy, a melancholy sense of opportunity lost, and mystery.

He watched her waiflike figure in the rear-view mirror as he pulled away, and he was filled with melancholy and a sense of loss.

His poetry and work conveys a melancholy sense that all is transitory.

There was a melancholy sense of endings for the next several weeks.

Abigail had a melancholy sense of life slipping away before she and John had had a chance to enjoy it.

There is nothing sinister about the spot, just a melancholy sense of the journeys made here across the generations.