Their 1985 collaboration, "Camera Obscura," brought in more percussion, but was no less somber.
Last week his mood was no less somber after touring the twisted, smoldering remains where the towers once stood and attending prayer vigils all over New Jersey.
Mr. Kerry's office was less crowded and slightly more somber, reflecting what his own advisers described as the difficult, though hardly impossible, task he faces in trying to resuscitate his once high-flying campaign.
The somber atmosphere, however, may be less of a deterrent to viewers than expected.
At the same time, CBS executives told the "Max Bickford" creators that they wanted Mr. Dreyfuss, who has appeared in many film comedies, to be funnier and less somber and that Max should spend more time with his family and less with the other characters.
Sullivan's Thoreau is a sloppier environmental hero, less prissy and less somber, who reminds us that being in nature is, among other things, fun.
Good Friday, while kept with solemnity, was often a celebration of Holy Communion, thus less somber than the contemporary Roman Catholic Church.
The mood is emphatically somber.
Lindsay is graying, somber, grim.
