Sentence examples for somber theme from inspiring English sources

Some passages, including the somber theme, emerged with Wagnerian heft.

Despite the somber theme, the palette is bright: mustard gold with little red trees.

During the slow introduction he presented the somber theme in staggered phrases, with dramatically calculated pauses in between.

His poems have humor and buried twinges; what seems simple touches a complex, and even somber, theme.

They began the opening Adagio at a restrained tempo, letting the somber theme build inexorably into a web of ethereal counterpoint.

It's striking, but still not as potently expressive as the title track, a somber theme handled with the freest sort of care.

In the slow introduction to the first movement, somber themes and motifs emerged haltingly, as if trying to coalesce into something solid.

In the first of his books of poetry, "In the Manner of Hope" (1955), he pondered the meanings of loss and death but included other, less somber themes.

Ultimately, Ferris neatly sidesteps more somber themes in favor of her strong suit, romance; this is a love story more than a slave narrative, a history or even a geology of the caves of Kentucky.

Like Boylan herself, Long Black Veil is hard to pin down: It's nominally a thriller, but it's character-driven like literary fiction; it deals with somber themes like murder and shifting identity, but it's suffused with comic moments; it features an ensemble cast yet extends Boylan's exploration of the deepest recesses of trans experience.

In the hell-bent opening of the Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Mr. Li takes off in a bolt of demonic energy and doesn't let up until the somber second theme.