Sentence examples for not sombre from inspiring English sources

The atmosphere was not sombre but upbeat, undefeated, like a football stadium before kickoff.

Although the text is dense by modern standards, it is not sombre and the pictures are still vivid.

I asked her about the mood of the songs, which is warmly melancholy, the way Elliott Smith's songs often were — generous, not sombre.

"For me, it was about offering modern products that aren't sombre, but look nice," he says.

He described The Edge's playing as "a loose-limbed guitar melody with both an African and a Hawaiian tinge", concluding by saying "despite its moving vocal coda, 'One Tree Hill' isn't sombre.

But it need not be sombre.

The mood is not especially sombre or contemplative.

Which is why I was in a reflective but not especially sombre state of mind when I arrived at the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, where checking in ahead of me was Carolyn Gilbert.

The market, too, is passionate – when someone pays out millions for a painting it is not a sombre investment but an act of love and self-discovery: a way to say who you are and what you believe in.

The gathering was held to mark the launch of Pocket Penguins, a new list of classics decked not in sombre black, but in bright jackets, each one colour-coded according to the book's original language (orange for English, of course, but also yellow for Spanish, green for German, and so on).

We're not such a sombre bunch after all.