Sentence examples for somber thing from inspiring English sources

The U.S. News ranking is a serious, almost somber, thing, but the Princeton Review, whose usual business is tutoring and educational advice, does its surveys with a bit of humor.

"Ah, but it's all so simple," Johanna cooed, gravitating to a black dress that I thought looked like something Jackie O. might wear to the funeral of either husband, a timelessly somber thing with three-quarter sleeves and a high neckline.

These paintings suggest both William Blake and Walt Disney; some are somber, serious things, but many convey a kind of muffled laughter.

We often have the impression that death or other "forever" goodbyes are supposed to be a somber and joyless thing.

'CHRISTMAS ORATORIO' Here, in Bach's six-pack of Christmas cantatas, is a welcome change of pace from Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent Choir and Orchestra, whom we are used to hearing in Bach's somber Passions (no bad thing, to be sure).

But a somber face was the one thing I couldn't find.

In the daytime there were a few more funerals for dead protesters – things were quite somber.

After that magnificent opening — "I am an American, Chicago born — Chicago, that somber city — and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way" — the novel quickly craters for me; I have never been able to read my way more than 50 pages in.

"It's a somber time -- a lot of things are changing in the world," Mrs. Benbough said.

Especially in its first act, in which visitors to a somber mansion in Northern England stir up things that go bump in the night, "Bracken Moor" smoothly melds shivery sensationalism with Shavian talkiness.

Things aren't so somber across the pond in Germany, however.