As if lagging 2-0 were not bad enough, Hibs might have begun to remember the club's sombre record in this event.
The chief constable, looking strained and sombre, said the helicopter had been flying back to its base on the Clyde after an operation in the city, rather than being on patrol.
In a research note this morning, SocGen warned: The political vacuum left by Rutte's cabinet and the sombre IMF analysis of the country's public finances mean that a downgrade is more likely than not by the time the next government is sworn in..
Mandela's grandson and heir Mandla, sombre in a long black coat and black tie, stood ramrod straight with eyes fixed on the middle distance.
His passing is the sombre end of a golden political era.
But knowing what I do, I infer a sombre, if not quite funereal, purpose to the place.
It's 25 years since Ian Curtis hanged himself, casting a long shadow on Joy Division's already sombre music.
Certainly, there is also a sombre element to a story about a man hoping to solve a problem largely caused by human greed, yet unable to quieten his own appetites.
Top floor: a roomful of sombre youths vying for individual supremacy using some form of networked arcade strategy game that uses collectible cards.
In a sombre address, hours after a dramatic meeting of euro group finance ministers in Brussels, Tsipras said that, while Athens under the stewardship of his radical left Syriza party had for the first time embarked on "real negotiations" with its creditors, a "long and difficult " struggle lay ahead.
On his return to the dispatch box less than three months later, he sounded a more sombre note.
