Written in a time of festering political restlessness (the French Revolution was just around the corner), "Luise Miller" combines somber melodrama with the sensational frissons of a journalistic expose of the rich and oppressive.
Written in a time of festering political restlessness (the French Revolution was just around the corner), "Luise Miller" combines somber melodrama with the sensational frissons of a journalistic exposé of the rich and oppressive.
Lag ba-ʿOmer (33rd Day of the ʿOmer Counting) is a joyous interlude in the otherwise-somber period of the ʿOmer Counting (i.e., of the 49 days to Shavuot), which is traditionally observed as a time of semi-mourning.
— A somber President Obama paid tribute on Thursday to firefighters killed in a spectacular explosion that devastated a small Texas town last week, praising their courage and vowing to help their community recover from a "time of unimaginable adversity".
He finds an assortment of somber ways to answer that question again and again.
Though the group had intended to make a harder-rocking album after the softer textures of Out of Time, the somber Automatic for the People "[seemed] to move at an even more agonized crawl", according to Melody Maker.
On a day when work meant so much less than family and human companionship, when the very constructs of what it meant to live in New York came under question, New Yorkers spent much of their time in somber and heartfelt reflection.
The atmosphere in general was kind of somber for the occasion, a barometer of straitened times perhaps.
We are being watched under the microscope by the rest of the world, so let our national reflection in this time be a somber one.
