Sentence examples for somber picture from inspiring English sources

This somber picture is confirmed in Homer's Odyssey.

His departure came as the monetary fund was completing a weeklong audit of the government's finances, and painting a somber picture of what lies ahead.

Neither "La Terra Trema" nor "The Bicycle Thief" is exactly subtle in its politics: they paint a somber picture of a society ruled by exploitation, mistrust and an imperious bureaucratic state.

TOKYO — In surprisingly frank public testimony on Wednesday, Japan's nuclear safety chief said the country's regulations were fundamentally flawed and laid out a somber picture of a nuclear industry shaped by freewheeling power companies, toothless regulators and a government more interested in promoting nuclear energy than in safeguarding the health of its citizens.

This engaging small exhibition includes wonderful early pictures of performers like B. B. King, James Brown and Ike and Tina Turner in action at local clubs, civil rights scenes like the funeral march for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a somber picture of Jackie Robinson and fellow players (Johnson).

This engaging small exhibition includes wonderful early pictures of performers like B. B. King, James Brown and Ike and Tina Turner in action at local clubs; civil rights scenes like the funeral march for Martin Luther King Jr., and a somber picture of Jackie Robinson and fellow players (Johnson).

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

Our colleagues over at the Lens blog have a great post today on a side of Baghdad that you don't normally see: its personal side, shown through sometimes quiet, sometimes playful, sometimes somber pictures of the normal lives of everyday Iraqis.

A somber, grisaille picture of a rippling ocean surface by Vija Celmins and a wide-brush, gestural abstraction in mint greens, dirty whites and brick reds by Louise Fishman might be miles apart stylistically, but both pictures are sensuously physical and both are animated by a controlled yet fierce romanticism.

Cardinal O'Connor's gaze, in the hall at St. Joseph's, seems to fall on the somber image of Archbishop Hughes across the room, forming a triangle with the picture of Cardinal Spellman, leaning forward in his scarlet robes.

Balancing the photo's somber look are pictures of George enjoying himself, including a shot of him sitting at the piano ecstatically warbling songs from "Porgy and Bess," and a costume-party photo that shows him improbably made up as Groucho Marx.