Sentence examples for somber background from inspiring English sources

The wedding, said Churchill, "will be an occasion of national rejoicing, standing out all the more against the somber background of our lives".

In the hallway outside, his fellow officers stood at attention, their dress blues aligned to form a somber background for his widow, Leslyn Stewart, as she addressed a bank of television cameras.

"I'm upset for a couple of reasons," Lauer said to correspondent Jeff Rossen while somber music played in the background.

In a digitally modified voice that sounded like Darth Vader, Anderson referenced the presidential race as somber synthesizer music played in the background.

The backdrop is somber.

They also changed the bright orange background on the church's Web site to a somber gray.

The best numbers, curiously, aren't the perky, twinkly ones, which bring to mind background music for sentimental ad campaigns, but the more somber solos.

There is the close-up of a Sudanese's somber face, a cloudy sky and a gentle horizon in the background, as an infant is given an oral vaccine.

In Mr. Goris's version, with the rubble of the Twin Towers in the background, the couple's facial expressions now seem to signify a mixture of somber disbelief and unwavering determination.

ON THE SCREEN The 30-second spot begins with a somber Mr. McCain, wearing a dark suit and purplish striped tie, facing the camera in front of an inky black background.

Though there are favorite Picassos--a very early portrait of his wife Olga in Spanish dress which disappears into the background like an unfinished paint-by-numbers, a young bullfighter from 1925 in a shimmering silver frame and a somber, chic, mid-century modern landscape--the most startling and contemporary images come from earlier masters.