The melody was haunting and beautiful.

Meaning: This means that the music was both sad and beautiful.

Choice of Words: Melody is a noun that refers to the main tune or series of notes in a piece of music. Haunting is an adjective that means causing a feeling of sadness or melancholy. Beautiful is an adjective that means pleasing to the eye or the ear. When you put them together, the sentence means that the main tune of the music was both sad and pleasing to the ear.

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