"somber assessment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a serious and melancholic evaluation or opinion of a situation or topic. Here is an example: "After months of research and analysis, the team presented their somber assessment of the economic downturn and proposed a plan to mitigate its effects."
A. -- Pretty somber assessment today, Don.
Another friend has a more somber assessment: "If we're lucky, five years".
Mr. Barak's somber assessment did not square at all with the uncharacteristically upbeat one offered by a senior Palestinian negotiator this afternoon.
And they often include a pretty upbeat assessment of how things are going with the exception of A. -- I didn't think Q. pretty somber assessment this evening.
General Pace added his voice to General Abizaid's somber assessment of the increasing sectarian violence, in an exchange with Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona.
The hearings on Thursday came on the same day that the federal agency charged with overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac provided a somber assessment of those giants' health.
Consumption, which accounts for some 60percentt of economic activity, continued to slide in the quarter, which ended Sept. 30, according to the Management and Coordination Agency report that contributed to the government's more somber economic assessment.
While this may be too somber an assessment in this age of attacking flair from the likes of Lionel Messi and Ronaldo, it reflects the measure of soccer being more true to life, less like a dream, more of a struggle.
But the assessment of the jobs market was notably somber.
But in somber tones he described them as "the most serious assessment of options that one might imagine," and said that Mr. Bush was "leaving no stone unturned as to what we might do".
In those assessments, too, General Jones seemed to distance himself from the more somber views of Gen. McChrystal, who has said that success against the Taliban is not a sure thing and that if the Taliban regained power, Afghanistan could once again be used as a terrorist base.
