Sentence examples for sombre with from inspiring English sources

It starts out sombre, with the child hero being immured in a sarcophagus.

The "sleep" room feels sombre, with an iron bed covered with a quilt made by prisoners, mostly men.

On the Ukraine deal, the mood of the EU summit was sombre, with the leaders concluding that Putin was more interested in war than in peace.

Sir Alexander Morison stands tall and sombre with his top hat in his left hand and a white handkerchief in his right.

Milan's fashion week is set to be sombre, with most parties and events cancelled in respect for those still missing in the tragedy.

In the courtroom, Hector, handsome, sombre, with glossy black hair pulled back neatly, sat with his parents most days, not far from the three white and one Asian policemen who killed his brother.

Yet Konwicki takes on, and rises above, those harsh and sombre decades with all the melancholy of resistance; with wit and mischief, and with fury, though shrewdly balancing the torment with tenderness.

But as Martin Gilbert demonstrates with sombre aplomb - with tales of the guilt of many and the heroism of a few - Kristallnacht's organised mayhem was simply the first full stride towards genocide.

Johann Caspar Kerll's 1669 mass, accompanied by only four viols and organ, is sombre compared with his big multi-choir masses, though the singers enliven it with tremulous quavering at Quantus tremor est futurus.

In the Chinese way, she didn't smile — a sombre pose with the Old Man waving in the background.

The Prelude and Good Friday music share the same feel - sombre, yet with a vibrancy about the sound that suggests the presence of something spiritual.