Sentence examples similar to somber enthusiasm from inspiring English sources
What the two conventions will share — if Hurricane Gustav doesn't cast too big a shadow in Minnesota — is an air of pageantry: the packed arenas, the inspirational music, the giddy delegates, the stage-managed blend of joyous enthusiasm and somber tribute, the cascading oratory building toward the climax of the nominee's acceptance speech.
It was a kind of shared enthusiasm acknowledging that on such a somber day, nine years from when nearly 3,000 people died at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania, the nation remembers the fallen and unites.
This is in sharp contrast to the somber Mr. Abbas, who rarely gave interviews and showed little enthusiasm for the job.
Somber clothes for somber times.
And judging by the enthusiasm that made the band's June album, "Mer de Noms" (Virgin), the highest-charting debut from a rock band in recent memory, such somber explorers open tunnels listeners never tire of visiting.
