Meanings of melancholy grace in English

Cloud, the two exhaling melancholy grace and displaying subdued richness of tone.

A sad smile gave a melancholy grace to the lovely Aphrodite.

Samuel Brohl listened to him and replied with a melancholy grace.

He punctiliously acknowledged their salutes with a melancholy grace and dignity.

She has contrived to give them all beauty or dignity or melancholy grace.

From that to the melancholy grace of the moorland dirge:

She converses with reserve, and her nature has a melancholy grace which no one can resist.

Miss Latouche was pressed to perform upon the harp, which she did with her usual melancholy grace.

The King has none of the melancholy grace which Vandyck alone, of all his painters, always gave him.

His young features were stamped with a melancholy grace, his looks told of unsuccess and many blighted hopes.

Never shall I forget that look, full of thoughts, presentiments, resignation, and I know not what sad, melancholy grace.

Possibly there was also a melancholy grace in this sardonic soldier's manner that affected her, for she looked up, and said impulsively,-

The Elysian beauty and melancholy grace which Wordsworth throws over the shade of Alcestis were gleams borrowed from a better world than the mythic Elysium.

These causes have diffused over all his compositions "a melancholy grace," and have drawn forth occasional strains, the more pathetic from their gentleness.

Madame de la Tour possessed all those melancholy graces which give beauty additional power, by blending sympathy with admiration.

"Good morning." He bowed with melancholy grace, and got into his carriage.