He represented both the frustration and the graceful acceptance that it suggested, but defined as well the melancholy beauty in those words.

She was just Kitty, a recollection of absurd, melancholy beauty, already growing shadowy.

Coimbra has a melancholy beauty all its own, and seems to yearn for its more glorious past.

"The novel attains an aching, melancholy beauty," Robert Cohen wrote here last year.

These views of Madonnas, tombs and shrines had a melancholy beauty.

It was over a reed plain of melancholy beauty that he made his way to the shrine.

Much of the work was notable for its quiet, melancholy beauty.

"He is a friend of the melancholy beauty that dreams at the feet of the mountains there."

Jonathan Alger's plaintive voice was especially suited to the score's melancholy beauty.

Even Dorothy Lowther stayed to hear, caught by the melancholy beauty of both the music and the words.