| The narrative returns to human losses and the melancholiac recapitulations of grief. |
| The ranks of mannerist musicians furnish numerous instances of melancholiac and eccentric artists. |
| His attitude toward them is that of the paranoiac, vindictive, rather than that of the melancholiac, humiliated. |
| A man subjected long to that soul-cramping stress, with no outlet or abatement, would have become a melancholiac. |
| A saint in ecstasy is as motionless and irresponsive and one-idea'd as a melancholiac. |
| He remembered one of those men in the islands who had become a melancholiac. |
