Sentence examples for somber notes from inspiring English sources

Maine's departure was one of few somber notes for the Mets.

He strikes more somber notes in his recent self-portraits: loneliness, longing, death.

"Brundibar," which follows after an intermission, likewise blends a few somber notes into its score and its story line.

And in some ways, precisely because it's so overtly farcical, the play is even funnier now, even if it doesn't sound its more somber notes as fully.

The play's final, more somber notes land with surprising force, but the path from comedy to something closer to tragedy gets a bit rocky at times.

One of today's few somber notes sounded when the fellowship's music director, John Conte, played Canon in D, by Johann Pachelbel, on piano.

But there was also a somber note.

Of late, Mr. Boyles has sounded a cautious, even somber note.

I would like to begin with Libya on a rather somber note.

Brahms's "German Requiem" fills out the program on a somber note.

The play ends on a somber note that underscores the pain of loss.