maudlin v wistful, exquisitely, sensitivities, hallowed. exquisitely constructed, wistful prose explores the agonized dance between Muslims and the west and between past and present,

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You won't catch self-taught fashion designer Prema Florence Isaac dressed
in maudlin greys and blacks.

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An unfamiliar emotion — wistfulness — is settling in over President Bush and his White House.

Their most recent record is called Surer Days (Remedy Records, 2005). The songwriting is wistful without being maudlin. The music is rock-and-roll without being harsh. animosity,militant, wistful

maudlin 
adjective ━━ a. 涙もろい; 泣き上戸の.
feeling sad and having a lot of pity for yourself, especially after you have drunk a lot of alcoholadj.
Effusively or tearfully sentimental: "displayed an almost maudlin concern for the welfare of animals" (Aldous Huxley). See synonyms at sentimental.

[Alteration of (MARY) MAGDALENE, who was frequently depicted as a tearful penitent.]

maudlinly maud'lin·ly adv.
maudlinness maud'lin·ness n.

如果你讀者他的書 譬如說 伊斯坦堡等 就知道 WISTFUL之文風

Published: October 12, 2006
LONDON, Oct. 12 — The Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, whose exquisitely constructed, wistful prose explores the agonized dance between Muslims and the west and between past and present, won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature today.

wistful Show phonetics
adjective
sad and thinking about something that is impossible or in the past:
a wistful smile
I thought about those days in Spain and grew wistful.

wistfully
adverb
"I would love to go back to Venice, " he said wistfully.

wistfulness 
noun [U]

exquisite[ex・qui・site]

• 発音記号[ikskwízit, ékskwizit]

[形]

1 非常に美しい, みごとな；〈細工物などが〉精巧な

an exquisite piece of music
絶妙な音楽.

2 無上の, 完ぺきな

The weather in Hawaii is exquisite.
ハワイの天候は申し分ない.

3 優雅な, 洗練された；上品な

exquisite manners
洗練された作法.

4 ((文))〈快感・痛みなどが〉強烈な, 激しい

exquisite rapture
大歓喜.

5 〈感覚などが〉鋭い, 鋭敏な

have exquisite taste in art
芸術に対して鋭い審美眼を持っている.

━━[名]しゃれ者, だて男(dandy).

［ラテン語exquīsītus（ex-十分に＋quaerere探し求める）十分探し求められた→絶妙な. △QUESTION, REQUEST, REQUIRE, CONQUER, CONQUEST］

ex・qui・site・ly

[副]優美に, 絶妙に, こって；非常に.