Sentence examples for sombre state from inspiring English sources

The film's colour palette darkens to reflect a more sombre state of play as the story progresses.

Which is why I was in a reflective but not especially sombre state of mind when I arrived at the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, where checking in ahead of me was Carolyn Gilbert.

But beneath the sombre dignity and pomp of the state occasion, it was not difficult to find the raw emotion caused by the steady stream of British deaths and casualties from Helmand.

Banda, 61, appeared at a news conference in the capital Lilongwe and ordered national flags to be flown at half-mast and the state broadcaster to play sombre music.

Jóhannsson's storytelling is stately and sombre.

Talking of which, here they came, ranged behind their plinths in front of a strangely washed out red-tinged Westminster background, and refereed by a sombre David Dimbleby, who chose his sonorously-resigned state funeral voice for the occasion.

'The mood here is very sombre,' said an official at Nairobi's State House, the centre of a kleptocracy which has forced some 60percentnt of Kenyans into wretched poverty.

A new identity will take years to build, but the future of one of the two founding states of modern Europe looks sombre indeed if they fail.

He tugs the beards of sombre religious clerics and holds hands with heads of state.

Among those aged 18-29, around half do.In years past Pew's "State of the News Media" reports have been sombre, chronicling the evisceration of jobs and the gutting of news budgets.

"The Lives of Others" (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006): A sombre, heartbreaking view of artistic life in the East German police state in 1984.