Sentence examples for somber timbre from inspiring English sources

I wanted it to be a really steady, somber timbre, the voice of a teacher.

Her voice takes on a slightly darker, more somber timbre in this piece as she sings "Lay me down / Let the only sound / Be the overflow / Pocket full of stones".

He challenges the world not with bellows and bravura but with a soft, somber reproach, with an audible timbre of compassion.

Reviewing a 1986 performance for The New York Times, Jon Pareles wrote that Ms. Benjamin "treated the songs as languorous phrases floating above the beat, with carefully turned glides and curves and delicate shifts of timbre —  a graceful, somber, pared-down approach".

Somehow the bouquet of timbres that Claudia Quintet presents hasn't lost its freshness: the slow dawn of "25th Somber Blanket," with accordion and clarinet prominent in the mix, represents a proven strategy for the band.

Still somber.

Somber viewings.

Faces, somber.

Somber clothes for somber times.

Its mood is somber.

The backdrop is somber.