Sentence examples for sombre scene from inspiring English sources

Generally speaking, it is a sombre scene, elementally threatening, coming on to evening perhaps.

Instead of the sombre scene in the movie, with both brothers calmly signing the abdication, Bertie spent an hour sobbing on the shoulder of his mother, Queen Mary.

In the life-sized "Crucifixion" (Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona), the spare and sombre scene strictly conforms to the Florentine Renaissance style of Masaccio and repudiates the rich colouring and courtly grace of Bellini's earlier known works.

Security forces charged with protecting the building had been escorted out of the room in a sombre scene, because ministers did not know who to trust in the middle of the unfolding coup.

And then, just when you've accepted that it's a Road Runner cartoon with added tattoos, a sombre scene will remind you that one of its stars, Paul Walker, died while the film was in production.

Incredibly, a policeman permitted my father and I to pass a protection barrier and we drove slowly along – one of few cars on the road – stunned by the sombre scene before us: smouldering blackened tree stumps and white ash where houses once stood.

Or the sombre scenes in the second series when Steve has to slip off to Amsterdam to avoid the law.

It's not hard to find the sombre scenes you might associate with the old eastern bloc.

The photographer Jonno Rattman recorded some of the commotion, along with more sombre scenes at the 9/11 memorial museum, as the Pope passed by.

An Irishman in London, who became a virtuoso society portraitist in the mode of John Singer Sargent and a painter of sombre scenes from the First World War, Orpen was twenty-one when he made this Rembrandt-like tour de force, which depicts a young woman with long, unkempt hair, seated on a canopied, rumpled bed.

Three young wives laugh it up with Martinis and cigars, cozy on a couch in front of a windowed, sombre snow scene.