Sentence examples similar to a somber expectation from inspiring English sources

I had expected a somber ceremony.

Aren't we split in our expectations between wanting a somber, classy, respectful, art-loving event and wanting a juicy, scandalous, gossip-producing disaster?

It offers a somber reminder of the true cost of rigid expectation around gender and relationships.

A number of Larkin's better-known poems create a somber portrait of a postwar England of diminished expectations, urban sprawl and deadening routine — a "rented world" of "cheap suits, red kitchen-ware, sharp shoes, iced lollies,/Electric mixers, toasters, washers, driers —/A cut-price crowd, urban yet simple, dwelling/Where only salesmen and relations come".

A somber locker room, he called it.

"It's not a somber mood.

But a somber Wright also took responsibility.

It's a somber event".

And the crowd said a somber "Amen".

But there has been a somber undertone.

Lately, it has been a somber affair.