Sentence examples for somber setting from inspiring English sources

On Monday, nothing changed, except now their insistence that Clemens had done nothing wrong was taking place in a particularly somber setting.

Janice was talkative and bubbly and smiled a lot despite the somber setting.

Newtype USA stated in an article on Kanon that, "it's when the characters are eating something really tasty that they seem most beautiful and alive," despite the somber setting and overall tone of the series.

****************** When Michael (Phantom of the Opera) Crawford in the dark enters Michael Pavelka's gaudily somber set for The Go-Between, he pulls a string to turn on a single light bulb.

Meanwhile, the adults are a somber set of midlife crises.

The results, which can resemble Klees with the life squeezed out of them, suggest vast and somber stage sets momentarily empty of ant-size actors.

FROZEN RIVER Courtney Hunt's somber film, set in upstate New York near the Canadian border at Christmas, was ahead of its time in evoking a perfect storm of present-day woes: worsening economic hardship, ethnic tension and illegal immigration.

This serious-minded, somber show sets to music a true story of such unrelenting grimness that the usual audience-appealing devices of musical theater — heart-seducing melodies, lively dancing, glowing star turns — are deployed in modest doses.

Levitan's remark referenced the somber tone, set by the decision to stage five memorial moments for high-profile actors who died in the last year.

A somber violin set the tone for the singer's mournful voice, while festival-goers gently swayed and embraced the coming dawn.

The implied question would seem: "Have we earned the right to sing an alleluia to you?" This moment extends into a somber chantlike setting of the words "Laudate Dominum".