Sentence examples for that somber from inspiring English sources

That grim coach in the hoodie, that somber football genius, that unrevealing news conference speaker — all of it is what he wants outsiders to see.

Tiger Woods brought nothing: no game, no pizazz, no shot at livening up all that somber golf reverie ESPN dished out endlessly, unless you count Woods's one foul-mouthed rant on Saturday, writes Michael Hiestand in USA Today.

"Chicago, that somber city," Saul Bellow called it, and I thought of Bellow (and I would guess that the screenwriter, Steven Conrad, was thinking of him, too) because the story of "The Weather Man" bears certain resemblances to that of Bellow's great novella "Seize the Day".

After that magnificent opening — "I am an American, Chicago born — Chicago, that somber city — and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way" — the novel quickly craters for me; I have never been able to read my way more than 50 pages in.

Not all the album is that somber.

But around that somber space, there should be more than skyscrapers that grow dark at night.

They might be quiet, like the Low Anthem, a Rhode Island trio that played somber songs pondering fate and eternity.

This wasn't a concert that stayed somber for too long — not when it could be a birthday party.

Many Brahms scholars assert that the somber and volatile Piano Quartet in C minor explores the composer's torment over his unrequited love for Clara Schumann.

With this evolution came a resultant change in tone, but I disagree that this "somber, even leaden" tone is evident at the beginning of the later books.

She chides him gently about his manners and his wardrobe — she does everything gently — pointing out that his somber black suit and tie are no longer required for occasions of mourning.