Sentence examples for more somber noting from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.