Sentence examples for sombreness from inspiring English sources

Folk art is often associated with bright colour and an appealing charm, qualities sufficiently present to account for a wide popularity but counterbalanced by the sombreness and seriousness of many pieces, notably in religious art.

The headmaster, though, pantomimes sombreness for his charges' benefit ("the boys' faces made him check his laughter and scratch his chin" — that international gesture of seriousness) before heading to the field.

He had pale hair, his father's, and a certain sombreness of body, a restraint, his own, that gave him an uncanny discipline in games, in physical play.

One was dark and nineteenth century, with a vulgar pine kitchen and an evil atmosphere; he had lined the upper walls with a black-and-white Liberty frieze that seemed to comment on the sombreness of the house, to expand it into a sinister nobility.

Music is colorless, but there are shades of music — brightness, sombreness, any kind of mood.

I liked the sombreness of this quest, and its disturbing, half-primitive simplicity; Joshua really has nothing else to live for, or to do.

In the atelier, there was a solitude bordering on sombreness.

Even in the funkier sections, though, a sombreness prevailed, which told us not so much where we were as where we were headed.

Its forbidding sombreness makes it a challenge until the viewer recalibrates their expectations of rhythm and tempo; you must readjust to something slower even than the walking pace of conventional social realism.

Judging from the sombreness of the week's suggestions, many TLS contributors share conedison's feelings: "I believe this is the saddest I've ever felt on a Fourth of July, but anyway - to whom it may concern - Happy Independence Day".

There is certainly a sombreness hanging over this well-intentioned movie from the Danish director Susanne Bier, which arrives here garlanded with praise and this year's Oscar for best foreign film.