Sentence examples for somber mode from inspiring English sources
Mr. Howard's lyrics, unfortunately, are not particularly eloquent or deft in either comic or somber mode.
Emily Mann's adaptation of "The Cherry Orchard" at the McCarter Theater here opens in somber fashion, with a violin solo in the discordant contemporary mode and the image of a young boy tossing a ball up and down behind a screen so he appears almost as a silhouette.
Mr. Bagayogo was singing, in West African style, about history and social issues, while the circling melodies used somber, ancient modes, tied to the notes available on the n'goni.
The self-taught Shalva Alkhanaidze (1927-1978) worked in a classic mode, making somber three-quarter portraits of people seated before a stretched tarp.
The Russian pieces, he says, balance "exaltation and darkness," consisting of some late Scriabin, "a music of insects in the forest," and four of Rachmaninoff's "Etudes-Tableaux," all somber and in the minor mode.
(May 5, Public Theater) BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK Lynn Nottage, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the wrenching topical drama "Ruined," slips into a less somber (but, one imagines, still trenchant) mode with this look at racial stereotyping in Hollywood, which takes a cue or two from vintage screwball comedies.
Inside, the mood was somber.
