Sentence examples for sombre on from inspiring English sources

What I understand is that he got a phone call and was a little bit sombre on Sunday afternoon for a while.

AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE The company kicks off its season with "Citizen," a new ensemble work by the former Hubbard Street dancer Lauri Stallings, set to Max Richter's sombre "On the Nature of Daylight" and "November".

Click here to listen In one of the morning's most moving segments, war photographer and triple amputee Giles Julie frankly discusses the grisly physical and psychological after-effects of battle injuries with injured war veterans, rounded off with Baez's sombre take on the traditional protest song Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye.

Federal parliament will begin on a sombre note on Monday as MPs and senators pause to remember the late prime minister Malcolm Fraser.

It wasn't until I went to film school and started to learn the language of film that I started to feel at home.' In the flesh, 34-year-old Moodysson is not so much angry as sombre-going-on-morose, somehow managing to convey an air of humility and extreme world weariness.

Shankar also composed two solo sitar pieces one based on the raga Desh (traditionally associated with rain), and one sombre piece based on the raga Todi.

Heydrich is most infamous, though, as the man who convened the Wannsee Conference, on January 20 , 1942 in an elegantly sombre villa on the shore of Lake Wannsee.

Alastair Cook was in sombre mood on the eve of the series and spoke on behalf of his team.

It hit $32.16 per barrel at one point, before recovering in later trading to around $34. Before a sombre speech on the economic outlook, Osborne said the UK should be ready for higher borrowing costs, which he described as a sign of a strong economy, as cited by the US Federal Reserve when it hiked rates in America last month.

7.24pm: Anthems: the Aussies look suitably sombre, hands on heart.

It's a less sombre variation on his Greenberg.