Sentence examples for somber stage from inspiring English sources

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.

Mr. Mendes's arrestingly somber staging of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy firmly favors adversity over sweetness.

By one standard, the childish cartoon imagery in tandem with the somber staging couldn't be more ludicrous.

Nicholas Belton puts a goofy spin on his excitable Jamie, which at least gives some animation to Ms. Gardiner's predominantly somber staging of an already pensive musical.

The musicians were on a somber, darkened stage with a blue backdrop that may have been intended as aquatic.

After the lurid colors and eye-popping set pieces of "Kate," including a castle that looked like a Cubist watermelon, the somber tone and stark stage used for "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," by Bellini, took some adjusting to.

The stage started on a somber note, when Patrick Guay, the uncle of Quickstep's Jerome Pineau and a driver for the company that supplies the Tour technical support, was found dead near the finish.

Those legendary images of Abraham Lincoln looking dour and downtrodden may not have been staged to evoke a somber mood.

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.

In the opening scene in the Palace of Westminster, in which Elisabet holds court in full regal flamboyance, Maria sits in somber, silent vigil at the edge of the stage.

The women stood a moment, their faces a mask of somber Japanese beauty, and then they left the stage, the only sound a slight electronic whir coming from under their skirts.