At the thought of it, Fatima's face, full of only energy before, grew somber and then cross.
So last spring, Benjamin, then 13, stood before the somber faces of his local board of education and asked for the $3,500 to send him to the school.
But with no message at the end of the "Pathétique," applause started well before the somber last chord had died away.
"My wife asks me, 'Who do you love more, the seafarers or me?' " he said, with a laugh, before turning somber.
Mr. Bradley did not even wait for half the votes to be counted, appearing before a somber audience of supporters in Midtown to at once concede and signal his imminent withdrawal from his race.
Before a somber courtroom, the judge, Harold B. Beeler of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, described the man, Edmund Ko, 26, as "emotionally empty and pathological" and said he had violated the victim's trust and committed a "brutal murder".
He slept briefly before the strangely somber visitors began arriving in his suite.
Joe Girardi, somber before Game 4, said, "It's been somewhat difficult.
The set looked toward Cape Verde, with upbeat songs from Ritinha Lobo and Yami, before turning more somber with fado-rooted pop from Micaela Vaz and Vânia Conde.
