Sentence examples for more somber note from inspiring English sources

Despite the happy ending of Dawson's long-delayed literacy, the book begins on a far more somber note.

But he sounded a more somber note than he has in the past.

On a more somber note, the discoveries raise questions about the species' long-term prospects as a free-ranging creature.

Mr. Robinson struck the more somber note, referring to the pact as one involving "life and death issues" for the people of Northern Ireland.

Several appearances later, he attempted to strike a more somber note by instructing the audience to observe a few moments of silence for the Titanic casualties.

They will mention, on a much more somber note, that many New Yorkers will be focused on Sept. 11, mentally steeling themselves for a difficult anniversary.

Another G.M. executive was more somber, noting that Nissan had said that it planned to market the full-size pickup mainly to households that already owned a Japanese compact pickup.

He strikes more somber notes in his recent self-portraits: loneliness, longing, death.

The play's final, more somber notes land with surprising force, but the path from comedy to something closer to tragedy gets a bit rocky at times.

And in some ways, precisely because it's so overtly farcical, the play is even funnier now, even if it doesn't sound its more somber notes as fully.

On a more productive albeit somber note, medical, public health, government, military, and other organizations developed the wherewithal to visit the dust-encased and dysfunctional state of the nation's disaster plans and increasingly clamored for greater resources and improved coordination.