Sentence examples for sombre space from inspiring English sources

Two things stood out in this sombre space: the elegant brass door hinges, by Pugin, and a volume bound in bright scarlet leather lying next to Mr. Blair's abandoned jacket.

This is still a powerful, sombre place.

It was in this reassuringly sombre, wood-panelled space that my wife announced that she had gone into labour.

The novel was written at night, set in sombre and haunted spaces.

The novel was written at night, set in sombre and haunted spaces.

Two of those paintings Turner elongated, the fish-eye vision emptying the frame and lending the space a sombre fatefulness.

The set designer George Tsypin contributes a tableau of columnar Plexiglas forms; James Ingalls's lighting lends sombre majesty to the cavernous space of the Felsenreitschule.

"Rachel and I aren't even in the same building in the physical world, but it feels like we're in the same place and can make eye contact," he added before he and Rachel high-fived within the virtual space with the sombre scenes of Puerto Rican devastation around them.

Stumbling out into the sombre quiet of the main exhibition space feels like escaping madness itself.

This lively space contrasts with a sombre, black-painted room in the opposite corner of the museum, where a German bomb is suspended from the ceiling and where visitors listen to recordings of Blitz survivors recounting wartime experiences.

Or go to the church of Santa Maria della Salute, whose interior is the grandest and most dwarfing enclosed space in Venice, a sombre manifestation of divine mystery built to mark a devastating 17th-century plague.