The phrase "a note of somber" is not correct in standard English; it should be "a note of somberness" or "a somber note." You can use it when describing a feeling, tone, or atmosphere that is serious or melancholic.
Example: "The film ended on a somber note, leaving the audience in deep reflection."
Alternatives: "a tone of sadness" or "a hint of melancholy."
Mr. Korda's humorous, occasionally condescending New Yorker article ends on a note of somber finality.
The New Yorker reporter-poet Joseph Mitchell, for instance, searching for a plain style, often eliminated the normal contractions we use in English, so that every "It's" became an "It is" and every "He's" a "He is," and suddenly a note of somber gravity exuded from his most basic declarative sentences.
Striking a note of somber defiance, President Ezer Weizman of Israel tonight refused either to resign or to step down temporarily while the police pursue a criminal investigation of his receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a French businessman and political supporter.
Out of work, that's where!" The Wall Street Journal's celebrity news editor sounded a note of somber caution.
After a shaky start, his speech Friday at the National Cathedral struck the note of somber confidence that the nation was looking for.
There was also a different sort of somber note after the game when defensive end Justin Tuck stood quietly by his locker, consoled by several teammates.
It injects a gratuitous note of melodrama into a movie whose undercurrents of humor keep it from becoming painfully somber.
In a note at the conclusion of his somber, haunting new novel, "To the End of the Land," he explains that he began writing it in May 2003 — around the same time he wrote that introduction, six months before the end of his older son's military service and a year and a half before his younger son, Uri, enlisted.
It resembles duck magret and is served with a boulder-like savory bread pudding, adding one more note of brown to an already somber plate.
Many Syrians' hopes were "very high" that that the talks could have represented "the beginning of the coming out of this horrible crisis," noted a somber Brahimi, who himself appeared emotionally drained.
