Sentence examples for sombre image from inspiring English sources
It presents a different, more sombre image to the one we are more familiar with," she said.
★ ★ ★ ★ Johnny Cash seemed to spend most of his life scowling, but despite his sombre image the Man in Black took time out from performing songs about murder and redemption to lead a Muppets Show hoedown, grinning and swinging his arms like a Sunday school teacher.
If the photographs of his mother having sex are wilful provocation, as I suspect, there are other, more sombre images that broach her fear of ageing and death, including one in which she poses as a corpse.
Among the museum's first-rate collection of portraits, nothing exceeds Dennis Miller Bunker's sombre, haunting image of Anne Page (pictured above); and in its contemporary galleries Alison Elizabeth Taylor's marquetry "Room" is, like the museum itself, a chamber of wonders in an unexpected place.
There were reports this morning that Gaga was reluctant to perform after the death of Alexander McQueen last week and had told organisers she would only play a set that was suitably sombre (with images of McQueen projected as a backdrop apparently).
The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great (1743), for instance, uses a mock-heroic idiom to explore a derisive parallel between the criminal underworld and England's political elite, and Amelia (1751) probes with sombre precision images of captivity and situations of taxing moral paradox.
All that's required to make this sombre, ominous, ambiguous image as clear as day and as funny as hell is the right caption.
But the short-term picture is sombre.
It's technically a legal substance, so the same discourse doesn't exist around it as, say, heroin, or any other drug that provokes mental images of teary families on sombre news reports.
Jonah Levy is a fading image of the missing husband, his sombre costume identical to one worn by performers portraying Jameson elsewhere.
