Sentence examples for somber aspects from inspiring English sources

Patrick Daily of the Chicago Reader said the novel transcends the "silliness" of The Zombie Survival Guide by "touching on deeper, more somber aspects of the human condition".

Her posture in the center of the painting, erect and dignified, defies the somber aspect of her wasting limbs.

Opting for humor with Collette's portrayal of Tara's abuser rather than having the courage to face the somber and devastating aspects of her path to recovery, the finale buckled at the knees in fear of its own serious subject.

In particular, the work Wheatfield with Crows serves as a compelling and poignant expression of the artist's state of mind in his final days, a painting Hulsker discusses as being associated with "melancholy and extreme loneliness," a painting with a "somber and threatening aspect", a "doom-filled painting with threatening skies and ill-omened crows".

But most appear more somber in expression.

Unlike his contemporaries James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, and William Merritt Chase, popular society portraitists, Eakins painted his subjects with uncompromising realism and meticulous precision, which lent them a somber, aged, sometimes unflattering, aspect.

A rumpled, somber man who sought to understand the most bewildering aspects of genocide — how someone could play soccer with an acquaintance one day and assist in his murder the next — Mr. Bankier insisted both on the uniqueness of the Nazi Holocaust of six million Jews and on its applicability to other cases of mass murder.

The scene inside the ballpark was somber.

The weirdest aspect to the story in the Lebanon Democrat might be the somber, national-security-for-kidz tone of the proceedings: "[Sheriff Luke] Bryan said the two [School Resource Officers] assigned to the school received information something was going to happen Friday in the lunchroom".

Mr. Winther is a musical-theater singer, not a jazz singer, and there was a brassy, showy aspect to a few songs that felt strange given the story's somber, shadow-world context.

In his current photo show, Moby under represents the more sensationalistic aspects of the "cult of the innocents" and instead focuses on their mute and somber penitence.