The Anatomy of Melancholy was written more than 400 years ago, but Robert Burton's masterpiece is strangely modern. Although ...

Although it brims with quaint language and Latin quotes, it also resembles a medical ... sighing, moaning, peevishness and pallor, “as one who trod with naked foot upon a snake”.

Last year, President Emmanuel Macron, in a fit of peevishness following the striking defeat of his party Renaissance in elections to the European Parliament, called snap legislative elections at home.

That’s when Mickey 18 enters the picture, via an accident. Also played by Pattinson, he’s full of attitude and peevishness over the fact that the rules call for 17 to be dead and 18 to take ...