Sentence examples for particularly sombre from inspiring English sources

That's a particularly sombre get-up for him.

Although painted in a static, formal, archaic manner close in style to Byzantine prototypes, these frescoes show a particularly sombre and intense emotionalism that goes beyond even the typical Russian emphasis on emotional expression.

Seated between Gemma and Lili, watching his first ex-wife try to steal the scene by sobbing theatrically, smelling the incense, listening to the tearful address of the bishop — another friend of Remo's — and wondering automatically, as one does at funerals, when the dead person is going to walk in, Orso feels as if he had inherited the job of ringmaster in a particularly sombre circus.

Episodes that ended on a particularly sombre tone, such as "Monday-Tuesday" and "Yesterday's News", used only appropriately sombre music to accompany the end credits.

He had been reading Shakespeare with "eyes which are as tender as young sparrows," particularly noting sombre passages in Measure for Measure and King Lear.

If you're lucky enough to visit during Greek Easter next yearr on 20 April), the backstreets are particularly atmospheric, with sombre processions.

Or, at a higher level, take Allen Coulter's sombre "Hollywoodland," the intelligent, brilliantly acted (particularly by Diane Lane and Bob Hoskins and Ben Affleck), yet unbelievably dull story of how the fifties television Superman, George Reeves, killed himself or was killed in a very minor Hollywood scandal.

The Ireland players have spoken about the sombre mood after the Belgium game, particularly in the dressing room and on the flight back from Bordeaux but they have put it behind them.

As we turned off Twiggs Street onto a narrow and particularly abject strip called Hopkins Street, Mr. Brown's mood turned sombre.

At Your Most Beautiful and Walk Unafraid are two particularly stunning, rich songs off that record, but this slow, sombre album track packs a gentler punch.

The Greek goddess Nike herself frequently appears on civic memorials, particularly in Britain and Canada, personifying victory, often pointing the way to soldiers: the image is far less, common, however, on more sombre memorials in battlefields and graveyards.