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  • This level is called Sombre (the French word for dark) and it's much harder than my previous levels.

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • The begum was originally said to have been a Delhi or Kashmiri dancing girl named Farzana Zeb un-Nissa, born in 1751, whose rapid rise to fortune began when she became the bibi (mistress) of German mercenary Walter Reinhardt, known as "Sombre" (Indianised to "Sumru") after his severe expression.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • Sombre photos recalling museum catalogues depict 3D depictions of creatures against dark backgrounds, including a taxidermy badger swathed in plastic.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • Sombre news for fans of Mary Shelley who have the misfortune to be under 15 years old.

    Teenagers won't be shocked by a naked man on the stage | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • At IFC News, Michael Atkinson reviews Sombre, a stormy, moody, portentous experience, full of evocations of a tormented consciousness ...

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 4/17. 2007

  • Jezmond: (Sombre look) "I suppose the thing to emerge from all this (huge pause - because the thing to emerge is that the government and the state-subsidised broadcasting corporation have been exposed as dupes of the silliest kind over decades and they know it) is that the public are naive about language like this (language like 'trick' and 'hiding the decline')."

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • A "DVD mini-roundup" at Stop Smiling: Sombre and Un chant d'amour.

    GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 5/2. 2007

  • Hence my puzzlement at the headline `Davos Begins In Sombre Mood.'

    January 30th, 2009 2009

  • Sombre breezes blowing in the bowels of our beings.

    Gentian Cocoli greenintegerblog 2008

  • I saw Sombre ā€“ a harrowing, Bataillesque European road movie about an affair between a serial killer and a young woman ā€“ when it came out, on the big screen.

    Films Iā€™d love to see « Jahsonic 2007

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