Sentence examples for more somber notes from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In contrast to the jubilant afternoon party, Obama struck a more somber note as he joined vice president-elect Joseph Biden in laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery.

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.

On a more somber note, the festival presented "Wit," Mike Nichols's adaptation of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, with Emma Thompson in the role of Vivian Bearing, a scholar and expert in the metaphysical poetry of John Donne who confronts her own mortality with courage and humor after learning she has terminal cancer.

"I really don't want to talk about it today," he added on a more somber note.