Sentence examples for a rather somber from inspiring English sources

I would like to begin with Libya on a rather somber note.

In 1971, Seuss published "The Lorax," a rather somber environmental warning.

Charred stumps left by a 1996 fire made for a rather somber walk.

He responded gracefully, generally declining to talk about it and recording a rather somber — and sometimes excruciatingly sad — album called "Tough All Over" (MCA Nashville).

Reviewing a New York staging of the play in 1937 in The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson called it a comedy, but there's precious little humor in the Mint's version, except for the occasional flourish from Ms. Daly; it's played as a rather somber domestic drama.

This seems like piling on after a rather somber celebratory week during the 15th anniversary of his Livestrong foundation in Austin, Texas, where in speeches Armstrong said, "It's been a difficult couple of weeks.

A jewelry store is generally a staid, rather somber place, reminiscent of a museum or library.

Except perhaps for the slightly flashy handsome blue-and-silver label on its 2004 Block E wine ($39.99 a half bottle), Macari's rather somber labels imply an understated stylistic approach to winemaking.

Even the set seems rather somber, a distressed chateau that suggests the ways in which sexual gamesmanship and societal manipulation continue from pre-revolutionary France to the present.

Nadia is a very thin and rather somber looking little girl; she doesn't go to school and has spent the morning collecting leaves with her mother about six kilometers from their village.

Instead, he roamed Amsterdam's quays and harborfront, seething, fuming, confused, occasionally erupting with joy at things he observed: "these old, narrow, rather somber streets," "a canal lined with elm trees," "a stormy sky with big clouds reflecting in puddles on the ground," "gnarled undergrowth and the trees with their strange shapes".