Sentence examples for it's sombre from inspiring English sources
It's sombre and invigorating in equal measure.
John Cooper Hamilton writes humorous genre fiction, except when it's sombre or creepy.
Recorded by the Concertgebouw under Riccardo Chailly, it's sombre but driven – monumental, yes, but one somehow feels inside the monument rather than gazing on it.
Now it seems an utterly natural, hieratic procession of contrasted friezes in which not a note is out of place; like Rothko's visions, it is sombre but uplifting.
It was sombre, warlike, international.
The patriotic mood in America last week was not bellicose, as many European leftists have claimed: it was sombre, deep-seated and determined.
This is a film made with great moral seriousness, and with a clear-eyed deliberation: it is sombre and measured as it treads carefully around this most contentious mass grave in Polish history.
It was sombre with a lowered Olympic flag and Welsh male voice choir the next.
And yet the effect is never parodic — when Keating sings a line such as "Do the wine like it's happy hour," he's sombre and worshipful enough to avoid sounding silly.
But it need not be sombre.
It's a sombre city in your movies.
