Sentence examples for somber of from inspiring English sources

Kaye had the temerity to bring slapstick into that most somber of chambers, the concert hall, and yet not only survived but also thrived.

She had impressed him with dogged attention to detail, a sense of industry bordering on workaholism, and a gregariousness that drew smiles from the most somber of critics.

Friends and colleagues said Mr. Cohn's sharp sense of humor and repertoire of jokes could bring levity to the most somber of occasions.

1. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: 'THE RISING' -- (Columbia) With the most somber of ambitions -- to confront and heal the wounds of Sept. 11 -- Bruce Springsteen writes songs that transmute pain into tenacity and sadness into affirmation.

But last month, on the eve of Tisha B'Av, the most somber of the Jewish holidays, a day that marks the destruction of the holy Temple in Jerusalem and also is used for Holocaust remembrance, Polish Parliament voted against the bill.

His rulings, however, were a somber drumbeat of rejections of the claims of blacks, women, workers and criminal defendants.

ON THE SCREEN -- Somber pictures of Mr. Pataki and of newspaper headlines and court documents.

It is time for a stone-cold, somber rethinking of our current state of affairs.

It offers a somber reminder of the true cost of rigid expectation around gender and relationships.

Schumann songs made up the first half of the program: the somber "Poems of Queen Mary Stuart," the cycle "Woman's Love and Life," and three from "Myrtles".

There were varying expressions of outrage, compassion, and the somber uncertainty of human existence.