Sentence examples for sombre background from inspiring English sources
Against, a sombre background, blue as midnight,.
Yesterday, despite - or perhaps because of - the sombre background of events in Iraq, he made his best conference speech so far.
He has made two appeals to Rome, both rejected on technicalities; a third is pending.To Father Francis's admirers Thiberville is a pinpoint of light against a sombre background: the near-collapse of Catholicism in some of its heartlands.
Against the sombre background of the war there rises the sinister figure of Wallenstein, who in his secret heart is meditating high treason: by joining forces with the enemy, he hopes to make himself the arbiter of the empire.
By Rolfe Humphries The New Yorker, January 31 , 1948P. 30 Against, a sombre background, blue as midnight, View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino By Masha Gessen.
A stormy grey sky, with clouds racing furiously, reared up against that sombre background the plumes of English elms, happy - these particular specimens - in not having yet been truncated, either by adventure or by the prudent hand of the woodman; jets of sunshine, rendered keener by concentration, directed at these plumes and shewing them the loveliest veiled crimson.
In Abts's paintings, the bright lines that pop tend to be left over from the original wash, and the sombre backgrounds that recede are among the last strokes applied to the canvas.
Though Jonze stays faithful to the creatures, he discards Sendak's sombre green-and-brown backgrounds.
Talking of which, here they came, ranged behind their plinths in front of a strangely washed out red-tinged Westminster background, and refereed by a sombre David Dimbleby, who chose his sonorously-resigned state funeral voice for the occasion.
Unlike his portraits, which often show his subjects in sombre – if expensive – clothing against plain dark backgrounds, his rapidly executed watercolours, usually made in the open air, sparkle with light and colour.
In the Chinese way, she didn't smile — a sombre pose with the Old Man waving in the background.
