tristesse

• “Eventually the statuesque and barely made-up Helena Pikon, often resembling a caryatid in her straight-and-narrow stance, takes on the persona of a sorrowing Penelope from the "Odyssey" as she makes her mark as something of a loner in this community, often trailing tristesse in her wake.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Tides of Memory

• “Few will deny that this final burst of warmth and sunshine is welcome, but it is not without its tristesse.”

  The Guardian: But do we really want a barbecue autumn? | Alex Clark

• “Losing the third act would not only prevent films from overstaying their welcome, it would also bypass that inevitable post-action tristesse when the third act fails to live up to its predecessors by delivering a coup de grace that is bigger and better than anything we've seen in the film so far, and by extension anything we've seen in the cinema, ever.”

  The Guardian: Anne Billson on three-act structure

• “While such lost privileges are peanuts in comparison to the elephant's tristesse, * another mama's support is soothing all the same.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “It can be more about us and all of the things we have in common: l'espoir, la peur, la colère, l'orgueil; la tristesse, besoin.”

  aveugle - French Word-A-Day

• “The best American paean to long happy marriage I can think of is Richard Wilbur's poem "For C," which begins with depictions of passionate sorrowfully parting lovers and then: "We are denied, my love, their fine tristesse.”

  Literary ideology of adultery

• “References: best friend = (see Susan's bio here); shon-tee-ay = pronunciation for "chantier" (construction site); Rouge-Bleu = nickname for my friend (also the name of our vineyard); la tristesse (f) = sadness”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “It was difficult to quantify, this tristesse, but it was truly present.”

  Miletos Tristesse

• “It would have brought such moral lift to those suffering at home from secular humanist anal-sex tristesse.”

  Party Pooper--or Party Snooper?: James Wolcott

• “Bousingot… on The French frenetic school of …vanrijngo on La tristesse durera toujo…Deciphering A Line … on Love Letters of Great Mendavidbdale on “Gradiva” by Alain…”

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