Sentence examples for sombre cold from inspiring English sources
After her death Denethor became sombre, cold, and detached from his family, but the relationship between Faramir and Boromir, who was five years older, only grew closer.
A serene lunar presence in Bellow's eloquently sombre novel The Dean's December 19822), her cold delicacy is now cruelly portrayed.
Cold Mountain, based on Charles Frazier's sombre bestselling American civil war novel, was another meticulously crafted picture in the epic mode, stunningly shot (in Romania) by cinematographer John Seale.
Cold Mountain, based on Charles Frazier's sombre bestselling American civil war novel, another meticulously crafted picture in the epic mode, was stunningly shot (in Romania) by cinematographer John Seale.
On the plane over, I felt like Paul Newman or Michael Caine in a Cold War spy movie of the sombre, le Carré or Len Deighton kind: a black-and-white film, with a jazz score and a grimly ambiguous ending.
For Martin Ritt on The Spy Who Came in from the Cold his superbly lit locations and dramatic interiors reflected the sombre events.
Striking a sombre note, Mr Gorbachev, 83, warned on Saturday that the world was on the brink of a new Cold War.
Meanwhile Laurie Sansom, always up for a dare at Northampton, has pulled off a fine production: dark, cold, often stately in its progress and totally in period, with proscenium arch and curtain and big, sombre furniture.
