What happens in Algeria still casts a long and sombre shadow over France, whose 132-year colonial rule over the north African nation became a form of apartheid, with one million colonialists of French origin – so-called pieds noirs – dominating nine million Algerians.
On the other side, 15 Israeli soldiers had been injured, five from Palestinian gunshots.The al-Nakba anniversary always casts a sombre pall over Palestinians, wherever they are.
Mary King rode a great round on Call Again Cavalier, formerly partnered by Caroline Pratt, whose death left a sombre cloud over last year's event here.
This was close to being finished before Smith's untimely death and although events cast a sombre pall over tracks like 'Strung Out Again', it is a lushly beautiful work.
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.
While the Mercury Music Prize is a sombre affair, fittingly presided over by a professor of music, the Brits are pure showbiz both on stage and behind the scenes.
A MOOD of sombre lamentation hung over the cloisters of Qom on May 4th.
On it, Holter sounds simultaneously French and German, intoning over sombre strings.
These kinds of dichotomies and issues appear time and time again, either in the plaintive vocal to "No Bed For Beatle John", or the dehumanised, auto-tuned voice intoning, "I have a woman inside my soul, her eyes sombre and sad", over John Palumbo's shifting soundscape pulse.
Dressed in the uniform of the Kashmiri bar, a crisp white shirt and sombre morning suit, over the past two decades Imroz had become a fixture at the high court in Srinagar, filing thousands of habeas corpus actions (which literally translates as "produce the bodies") on behalf of families who claimed their relatives had vanished while in the custody of the Indian security forces.
