somberness

• “The black hollow of its disused portal looked out from shadows which acquired some of their somberness from the tragic memories connected with its empty void.”

  The Filigree Ball

• “Life might easily come to be sober to somberness, which is a thing unwholesome and undesirable.”

  A Hero and Some Other Folks

• “This Life is a Mist," the first track, starts the album off in a very mellow and transcending mood while evoking emotions of somberness, which is distinctly used to create an uprising of emotion throughout the rest of the album.”

  The Purdue Exponent

• “Suddenly the dreamseller put aside his somberness, changed to a more pleasant tone and climbed on top of an armchair beside him and called out:”

  Simon & Schuster: Dreamseller: The Calling

• “As 2011 comes to an end, I feel a somberness lying heavy on the world.”

  The Huffington Post: Nancy Chuda: To Invent Fire

• “There was a mix of somberness of and celebration near Ground Zero, where a new tower is rapidly becoming part of the city's skyline.”

  The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Forces Kill Osama bin Laden

• “He likened the mood of the waterfront park to visiting Pearl Harbor, where he was struck by the location's somberness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: In N.J., a More Modest Memorial

• “Like the set's jet-black New York City skyline, looming behind candy-colored, graffiti-textured rooms and streets, a strain of somberness runs through "Locomotion," the moving and extraordinarily well-acted children's production at the Kennedy Center Family Theater.”

  The Washington Post: Theater review of 'Locomotion' at the Kennedy Center Family Theater

• “Occasional shafts of sunlight, penetrating the deep shade, warmed the somberness of the grove.”

  CHAPTER XVII

• “The Kimbell's silvery light allows us to see the somberness up close.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Return to the Grim and Dark

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