Sentence examples similar to a somber setting from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the adults are a somber set of midlife crises.

On Monday, nothing changed, except now their insistence that Clemens had done nothing wrong was taking place in a particularly somber setting.

Janice was talkative and bubbly and smiled a lot despite the somber setting.

****************** When Michael (Phantom of the Opera) Crawford in the dark enters Michael Pavelka's gaudily somber set for The Go-Between, he pulls a string to turn on a single light bulb.

A somber violin set the tone for the singer's mournful voice, while festival-goers gently swayed and embraced the coming dawn.

Her high spirits might seem misplaced in the somber setting of a mortuary.

The implied question would seem: "Have we earned the right to sing an alleluia to you?" This moment extends into a somber chantlike setting of the words "Laudate Dominum".

Many managers worry about a somber economic setting because advertising always gets cut back.

Newtype USA stated in an article on Kanon that, "it's when the characters are eating something really tasty that they seem most beautiful and alive," despite the somber setting and overall tone of the series.

The film opens with a somber, mood-setting overture that includes a funeral cortege and the graveside service of a young man shot and killed in Northeast Baltimore.

"The High Cost of Living," a somber morality tale set in Quebec, bears all the hallmarks of an uncompromising indie drama: a downbeat scenario, flawed protagonists, a strongly regional inflection.