Sentence examples for somber context from inspiring English sources

Given such a somber context, leaders in OPEC nations are facing contradictory pressures.

We are given a glimpse of the missing Andrea Laurie Holdenn), who has been saved by the so-far-mysterious Michonne (Danai Gurira), a character who wields a ninja sword and keeps a pair of armless walkers on leashes — comic-book touches that feel out of place in the somber context of the TV show.

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.

Rather, the director's pastiche of his early, funny work becomes, in the context of this somber new film, a poignant reflection on aging and loss.

But presented in the context of this somber anniversary concert, "The Disintegration Loops" offered a chance to find some solace in the tragedy, some sense that this loss will also, in time, be folded into the cycle of life.

JON PARELES Gary Allan "Living Hard" (MCA Nashville) In 2005 the California country singer Gary Allan released "Tough All Over," a somber and often beautiful album that was inevitably heard in the context of a real-life tragedy: His wife had committed suicide the year before.

In the rally's somber aftermath, progressive cities across the country moved to either hide their monuments or add more context about the justifications behind their widespread installment.

So this Sunday's interfaith service at First Christian Church, Ms. Connor said, will inevitably take on a more somber tone, with a minister from the local Unitarian church speaking about Mr. Clementi in the Christian context of martyrdom.

Still somber.

Somber viewings.

Somber clothes for somber times.