His remarks last week at the United Nations were given in its sombre light, saturated with a sense of unwelcome but inescapable responsibility.
In this more sombre light, stripped of the hyperbole of the boom years, what is the state of the English football nation?
Collishaw has pictured it in a sombre light that deliberately recalls paintings by the 17th-century Spanish religious artist and still life master Francisco de Zurbarán.
His discovery of sports in which he could properly compete, not just take part, meant his schooldays were generally happy - but three life-changing events cast a more sombre light on these years.
As the music builds into a reverberating texture of vocals and chords, the sombre lighting brightens, minimally, and the movement expands into a bolder terrain of splayed plies, skittering footwork, recklessly cantilevered curves.
Most of the photographs here have exciting or emotional stories attached to them, but many are distinguished, too, by composition, the compelling mood achieved by sombre lighting and their sensitivity for the subjects.
The first time players return to the starting area after discovering one of their corpses, the sun has lowered, casting sombre lighting over the scene.
The segments in which all eight dancers executed simple movements in unison were the most riveting, and the most reflective of the inspiration behind the piece -- particularly the very end when the dancers strode toward us in slow motion, with haunted faces, the sombre lighting by Jim French throwing up their enormous shadows against the back wall.
(Consultant, Ash) It's pretty obvious that somebody's dying because, you know, the sombre lighting and the sombre staff and other people coming in and focusing on symptoms rather than, you know, strutting around with charts and drug cards and you know.
Some respondents also felt it should be obvious to families that their relative was dying: It's pretty obvious that somebody's dying because, you know, the sombre lighting and the sombre staff and other people coming in and focusing on symptoms rather than, you know, strutting around with charts and drug cards and you know.
A sombre, unmoving light in rooms where the windows were never opened, the curtains always closed.
