Sentence examples for somber event from inspiring English sources
LIKE many festive occasions planned before the attack on the World Trade Center, the gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Wainwright House here was postponed in favor of a simpler, more somber event.
Mr. Pataki, who will be competing on Tuesday in the Independence and Conservative Party primaries against Tom Golisano, has decided not to have the traditional election night party out of deference to the somber event the next day.
This year was a more somber event than normal, she says.
It must be obvious, by now, that Rumi's death is no somber event for his devotees.
Photographer Srdjan Veljovic documented the somber event, turning his camera toward relatives and friends of the victims. .
Most, if not all, were somber events.
Sparkling selections from Count Basie and Benny Goodman overlay accounts of somber events, as if rebuking the carnage for its crudity.
Berlin, though, has chosen to mark two somber events: the 80th anniversary of Hitler's chancellorship in 1933 and the 75th year since the beginning of the attacks on Jews known as Kristallnacht.
"On this day, my thoughts turn to the somber events of Sept. 11, 2001, when so many innocent lives were lost in the brutal assault on the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the further attacks in Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania," the pope wrote.
For many years, I was accustomed to poetry readings being somber events in which personalities recede in an effort to forefront the work.
