Sentence examples for somber manner from inspiring English sources

"The senators there looked at it in a very somber manner and that was it".

The service started off in a somber manner — a stark contrast to one of Mr. Wright's foot-stomping and hand-clapping gospel numbers — but as the afternoon wore on, congregants joined in a rousing rendition of his song "We're Gonna Make It".

The massacre unified Pakistanis of all stripes in the somber manner that only heartbreak can.

Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" 4 out of 5, describing it as being "handled in a subtle, somber manner".

Black African ethnic types are represented in a variety of styles, ranging from sophisticated figuration in bas reliefs of the late first or early second century A.D. to artefacts that reproduce Hellenistic models handled in the simplified somber Expressionist manner of the third to fourth century A.D. Such is a scented oil flask from el-Kadata on loan from Boston.

And the 1675 painting "A Lady Seated at the Virginal" reprises old themes and motifs, but in a somber, leaden manner: the simple rooms of Vermeer's earlier paintings have given way to an ornate, haut bourgeois setting, and the magical light that illuminated the canvases of his prime has been muted, nearly extinguished.

You are left instead with a tense awareness of the frailty of human happiness and social equilibrium, the potential for tragedy that shadows all existence, but also a grateful appreciation for art that speaks somber truth in a manner that is as honest as it is humane.

His manner was drawn and somber.

The image he projected was one of inclusive leadership rather than narrow partisanship, and while the country is clearly in for some bruising ideological battles come the next Congress, the president's manner -- at turns affable and somber, and wholly disarming -- seemed well suited to the needs of the moment.

She is a sole practitioner in her late 30's with striking blue green eyes, thick curly hair and a thoughtful manner that comforted me even as it occasionally struck me as unduly somber, as if she were trying to appear older.

This grievously somber tale with its literally death-defying final twist, combined with Mr. Lundholm's caffeinated manner and the utter casualness with which he delivers the most shocking details, is terrifyingly theatrical.