| 单词 | somber |
| 例句 | In our hut the faces of my family were somber and hopeless. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The mayor of Springfield, gray-faced and somber, speaks to the group from the church steps. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The day went by like any other, filled with work, and Kit said nothing, ashamed that in this somber household she should even remember a happy English yuletide. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z They arrived a little after eight in the evening, somber and shell-shocked. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I pictured the man and woman in their somber gray suits. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Back at the inn a great many somber, sooty people were gathering to drink and gossip. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Malcolm X’s mood ranged from somber to grim as he recalled his childhood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was somber, the easy joy gone from it, but there was still—Sarai breathed again—such witchlight in his eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Straight-backed and severe, revolvers strapped to their belts, they moved with tranquil authority through the mass of somber battle dress and grimy faces, looking from side to side as if conducting a count. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His somber, pouched, furrowed face was turned again to the fire. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The preacher clears his throat, and shakes himself a little, as though casting aside the somber feeling in the room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Some sense of the strength of feeling can be gained by glancing through the chapter titles of Martin J. S. Rudwick’s excellent and somber account of the issue, The Great Devonian Controversy. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was not as somber an occasion as Tobias’s and my interrogation, partly because there was no suspicious video footage implicating Zeke, and partly because Zeke is funny even when under truth serum. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z At school assembly the next day, the mood was somber. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Men passed on their way to work, looked at the window from behind which the screams were coming and then looked at Johnny huddled on the stoop and a somber look came over their faces. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I folded Hattie Mae’s article and found myself in the same somber mood the town of Manifest had been in after that cross had been set on fire in front of the German Fraternal Hall. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z As every day passed you could see the panic on more and more people’s faces, and the rest carefully composed their features to look somber and made clucking noises and said How Awful It Was. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z His tone is suddenly a bit more somber. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Dinner was a somber affair, with Ophie and her mother eating warmed Heinz baked beans from a can. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Danny’s block was heavily populated by the followers of his father, Russian Hasidic Jews in somber garb, whose habits and frames of reference were born on the soil of the land they had abandoned. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The Captain looked so somber, I could almost imagine I was an Egyptian slave taking Pharaoh on a tour of the flooded Nile Delta. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sierra looked up and felt a wash of relief at the sight of that somber, shining face looking back at her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z My father looked at me, his eyes somber. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Papa observed the somber faces of his kids. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The rest of dinner is more somber than usual. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z "Such a beautiful song," Grace Wexler slurred, but the others sat in somber silence. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Newt looked at him, his face suddenly somber. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “By all means,” he says with a slight bow and poses like an old-fashioned gentleman, stiff and somber but with a twinkle hiding somewhere close. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “I booked our flight to Los Angeles for first thing Saturday morning,” he said in his most somber voice. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Twenty stone monuments stood in a somber row along the crest of the glacier’s terminal moraine, overlooking the mist-filled valley: memorials to climbers who had died on Everest, most of them Sherpa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z My heart rate finally elevated slightly above somber territory as we engaged in a heated debate over which came first, the chicken or the egg. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The thought of her had turned me somber. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Thereafter, the ladies joined our supper by way of payment for their services, and we sat below and held a more somber feast than our last musical festival, before Norfolk had burned. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z His brow was furrowed and he looked very somber, as if he were saying something of the gravest importance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In that somber house that held four Virgin Marys, where death sighed in every comer and candles sputtered, die gardenia smell and canary-yellow dress emphasized the funeral atmosphere surrounding them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He spoke softly and his eyes were somber as he looked at Ged. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I drove back to the motel in a more somber mood to start preparing for the last day of hearings. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z To cap it all, Professor McGonagall summoned Harry into her office, with such a somber expression on her face Harry thought someone must have died. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z She was walking with her mother, a bespectacled woman in a plum-purple dress, whose long, somber face was shadowed by a straw hat adorned with enough silk violets to plant a garden. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Ron responded by maintaining an unnaturally somber demeanor in her presence as an outward sign of continuing remorse. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Odenigbo sounded strangely somber; she had expected an outburst from him about the injustice of it all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z If he was a Hasid, he had exchanged his fur shtreimel for a deerstalker cap and traded in his somber frock coat for a green Norfolk jacket. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Yossarian shouted anxiously at Doc Daneeka as he ran up, breathless and limp, his somber eyes burning with a misty, hectic anguish. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Usually you’re in a better mood when your eyes are so light,” I commented, trying to distract him from whatever thought had left him frowning and somber. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Jethro was depressed by her somber mood, but not by the imminence of war. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The procession was, as usual, somber, slow, and insufferably plodding. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The mood in the town was already somber when the first death of the quarantine was reported a few days later. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z At unguarded moments his hard and sullen face slipped into a somber, preoccupied look of defeat and frustration. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I returned to the house and found that the giants had grown somber, although the small people were still merry. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z One night, during the course of a week darkened by somber rumors, he miraculously escaped four revolver shots taken at him by an unknown party as he was leaving a secret meeting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z "No," Garfield said in a somber voice, “my work is done.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z At home, a funeral is a somber occasion. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Lighter clothes were more expensive and required frequent professional cleaning, so while my everyday trousers and waistcoat looked rather somber in the daylight, they made suitable evening wear. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z From the time I finished reading the file, I couldn't stop thinking about how tragic this case was—and my somber thoughts weren't interrupted until a small child was pushed into the visiting room. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Sure enough, three old ladies were kneeling in polished pews, holding rosaries with somber looks on their faces. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Then he heard a somber rolling of the drums. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside me, dark shadows gather, like the somber procession of the dead. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the somber mystery of connection that was like a voodoo offering was gone forever. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That night dinner proved to be a somber affair, and it had nothing to do with the food. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I never paid attention to that expression before—neither joyous nor somber, but as if she were trying to tell me something. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z His expression turned somber, and I was instantly sorry I had asked. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They are silent, but not somber—they smile at the Amity they pass, inclining their heads, a few of them stopping to exchange pleasantries. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Ged worked also with the Master Summoner now, but that Master was a stern man, aged and hardened by the deep and somber wizardry he taught. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z For the most part it was a somber group that straggled back to their neglected chores. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Her face is somber, strained like when we hear shots outside our apartment window. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z He had a very agreeable face, despite his severe, somber demeanor and his frequently sour expression. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I glance at Ms. Tannenbaum, who is looking especially somber now. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It was well after midnight, but none of us was tired, and the atmosphere was not at all somber. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We were in the dining hall by 6:40 for a breakfast of dry bread and hot sugar water, watched over by a somber portrait of George VI, the king of England. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even he was in a somber mood today. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The sorcerer priest was garbed in somber black, but for a hint of golden thread at collar, cuffs, and hem. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The high walls were covered with a somber wall paper, dark brown with golden stripes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When Pipkin had planted in himself, like some somber tree, the knowledge that Hazel would never return, his bewilderment exceeded his grief: and this bewilderment he saw on every side among his companions. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a decidedly somber touch to it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They have the lace collars, the puffed sleeves, the sashes I remember; many of them are in plaid, the authentic somber blood-lit colors, dark greens with a stripe of red, dark blues, black. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I drew my little brother taller, his face somber. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The mood hanging over the Gladers as they ate couldn’t have been more somber or sodden with fear. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z For all his somber thoughts this made Ged grin a little, for it is rather a child’s charm than a wizard’s; there was always such village innocence in Vetch. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Then they were back again in a somber single file, my father, a grumbling Chucha, and my mother bringing up the rear. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Polly whispered one hot, humid night as they listened to the somber songs drift through the window. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the gay banners that flapped in the breeze, a somber mood prevailed, for everyone was aware of the unwelcome prospect of war. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Davenport was a Philistine, not worth mentioning, but the Italian was somber and polite, quite charming. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Oh, may these somber words not come true for as long as possible. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The race caller made the somber announcement and asked the crowd to stand in prayer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hotel-Dieu dining room is big and somber and full of people talking about U-boats off Gibraltar and the inequities of currency exchange and four-stroke marine diesel engines. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A somber mood rested over the Glade, an easy thing to happen when all is gray. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Quiet and moody by nature, Ang Dorje seemed especially somber as we sat together watching the sun come up. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Bambino’s is where many of the town’s big events, both somber and celebratory, are marked. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z An official-looking man in a somber black coat had stepped out of a building across the street and was striding toward our little group, walking stick in hand. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z His robes were a somber purple, trimmed with ermine. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He looked at me, his eyes somber, and shook his head. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She addressed the emotions provoked by the artist's somber choice of colors, and her eyes glittered as she spoke. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Her mood was somber; I couldn’t understand why she wouldn’t look me in the eye. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Jack gestured to the hallway lined with painted portraits of famous San Francisco writers wearing somber expressions and silly costumes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Maya started to giggle, then laugh, but Grace just looked somber, and Joaquin suspected that he had either said the most perfect thing or the most terrible thing. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It was something wrapped in a long somber cloak with a grinning skull, and bones for hands. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless the somber grandeur of the stories comes through in spite of the style. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Slughorn hurried over the threshold, several bottles in his arms, and wearing a somber black cravat. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The light was dimming, the road was straight, with neither house nor human being in view—nothing but land winter-stripped and as somber as sheet iron. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered as a child that they always sang this hymn at somber moments during church services, on Communion Sundays, and Good Friday. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The cards and letters are collected, placed in bags, and brought by messenger to the Bowens’ private residence, a town house that is already overflowing with appropriately somber floral arrangements. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Jack gestured to the hallway lined with painted portraits of famous San Francisco writers wearing somber expressions and silly costumes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The mood was somber by the time the five Vanderbeeker kids gathered back downstairs to eat their own breakfast. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Downtown, the Smith Tower pointed, like an upraised finger, toward somber skies. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Visitors wore their best clothes and most somber expressions, as if entering a great cathedral. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He looked at her closely, with an intimacy and seriousness that did not seem to embarrass him—this somber man—then tucked a strand of blond hair in behind her ear. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Elsie throws a somber glance at the magazine covers framed above her bed. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I sat down and he looked at me, his eyes somber behind their steel-rimmed spectacles. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They were all headquartered in downtown Manhattan, in and around Wall Street, in somber, granite-faced buildings. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Sciola, blinking in slow, somber consternation, twice reached to put his hand upon her arm, and on the third try his slow fingertips finally made contact with her elbow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z On the contrary, her face is divided into two parts, one with a somber expression, the other with a masklike appearance whose color nevertheless betrays passionate feeling. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He sounded unhappy, and there was a somber look on his face. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He spoke with love, and with a somber joy. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Our family would spend the rest of the evening quiet and somber, often in prayer, contemplating such a depth of hatred and depravity. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She knew that something was wrong even before she unlocked the door and saw his somber face. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z While smiling to herself and holding fast to the break in somber thoughts, she felt something tickling her foot. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z On the rare occasions she’d encountered them, they always seemed so somber. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Almost two hundred tired, gaunt, downcast men stood holding their parachute packs in a somber and unstirring crowd outside the briefing room, their faces staring blankly in different angles of stunned dejection. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “You disappointed your mother and me today, son,” he said in a somber voice. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “What music is in your CD player right now?” he asked, his face as somber as if he’d asked for a murder confession. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z In spite of the somber reason for the journey, everyone cheered up. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice enweaved itself through the somber vapors left by the dirge. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In somber tones a newscaster reported the sketchy details that were available. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Theon chose plain boots and plainer clothes, somber shades of black and grey to fit his mood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the lone, faded, wedding photograph, she is looking directly into the camera, her eyes serious and somber, her small body robed in a full-sleeved, polka- dot wedding dress. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Two, the Anne Frank quote you see as you leave this somber memorial: “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The atmosphere is somber, vaguely abandoned, as the streets had been. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Something was groaning, a deep, somber note like an organ. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I didn’t understand any of it, but he seemed so somber and strange that I didn’t want to talk about it anymore. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They paint in a realistic style using somber colors—browns, greys, dark greens, colors typical of the Netherlands. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I thought about asking Cecilia if she had a phone we could use, but the reporter’s somber face on the television screen caught my attention. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I tried to picture the tall, somber master angry and failed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The story they had to tell put a somber end to the happy evening. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It’s not nearly as somber as it sounds. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, it’s not a somber day, more like a picnic, but it has special meaning to someone looking for grandsons. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z We spun out the somber passages, our violins singing one to the other as my mother played upon the harpsichord, and perhaps this is as much of her sadness and joy as I shall know. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He married a Seattle woman of Illini stock, corn blond, svelte, and somber eyed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The Day of Sacrifice only came once a year, after all, and he liked to look his best during the sober procession to the cursed house, and during the somber retreat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Maybe it was my imagination, but the breeze-blown topiary creatures seemed to wave at us, too, with Adam nodding a somber farewell. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z This is the conception of life which underlies the Norse religion, as somber a conception as the mind of man has ever given birth to. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Officer Sandoval produced a reporter’s notepad and pen from her pocket and turned the full weight of her somber gaze upon me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He was wearing a somber taffeta suit, a shirt with a round and hard collar, and a thin silk ribbon tied in a bow in place of a necktie. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I knew the streets, the towers, the somber courts and ways and facades of the Palace. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She had no fear for Pantalaimon: the room was somber colored, and he could always creep under a chair. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In many eyes there was a look of somber loneliness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He is trying to make the darker colors seem light, but he can't help but paint in somber shades of brown and grey. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Once the cups were set out, and Henry had poured the tea, somber as a mandarin, we began to talk about the madnesses induced by the gods: poetic, prophetic, and, finally, Dionysian. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The fire in the hearth gave a somber orange cast to his skin and put deep shadows in the hollows of his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He wasn’t smiling at first — his face was somber. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She saw file footage of a jewelry store she didn’t recognize, its redbrick exterior surrounded by police and yellow tape, accompanied by the newscaster’s somber narration of events. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The men were a colorful lot in jeans and bright plaid shirts, but the women were dressed in somber colors. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something somber in his face, as if he were looking down upon a casket. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Inside, a single bulb cast its somber light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Far to the north a foghorn groaned, reaching them less as a sound than as a trembling in their bellies, as if their bodies were pipes in a somber old organ. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Once, at dinner in a restaurant in Victoria Island, somber waiters hovering around, she had seemed distant, her eyes on the wall behind him, and he had worried that she was upset about something. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The perpetually somber skies began to drizzle relentlessly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “He’s a silly old fool who really has no right acting like a silly young fool. Where is he today ? Dead ?” Nately answered softly with somber awe. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There was another noise to attend to now, a deep grumbling noise, as though the forest itself were angry with him, a somber noise across which the ululations were scribbled excruciatingly as on slate. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They walked in somber formation to the water pump to wash. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He had huge gray eyebrows and a somber face. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Later on in the Harlem narrative, he grew somber again. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face became even more somber as she looked at it and nodded; then handed it back to Mr. Chatham. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z ‘Tm sorry, sir, but just about all the prayers I know are rather somber in tone and make at least some passing reference to God.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Since the recent unfortunate happenings at the German Fraternal Hall, everyone has been on edge and the mood of the town has been somber. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z There was also a new guardrail, which gave me a somber feeling as we drove past. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The friends looked out at us with the tragic eyes and short upper lips of south-eastern Europe, and I was glad that the sight of Gatsby's splendid car was included in their somber holiday. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Their voices were somber as they compared notes, but at times someone would speak loudly in anger. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He was a devout and principled man, with a long, somber face and a full gray beard. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Inside it you can see paintings, of women in long somber dresses, their hair covered by white caps, and of upright men, darkly clothed and unsmiling. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, Harry, I don’t,” said Dumbledore, though his face was somber again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Even his eyes, which stared from behind the silver rims of his spectacles, did not change their fixed, somber gaze. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z No one said much, the mood somber and grim. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “We're going to have to stop and find shelter,” I said, breaking Pita’s joyful stride with my somber words. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The families are quiet and somber, the only sounds come from the branches brushing against the side of the truck and the slush of mud sticking to the tires. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “More Jesus,” Toby noticed, pointing to a particularly somber picture of the Lord right above the sink. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I wasn’t paying attention to my own expression, but something in it made him grow somber. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z At dead of night in front of the dark cavern on the bank of the somber lake she slaughtered four coal-black bullocks to Hecate, the dread Goddess of Night. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When he returned to Haiti, however, the political tensions and violence had worsened, and his mood turned somber again. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He excelled in painting and drawing, winning prestigious prizes and attracting attention with a signature style recognizable by thick, angular black lines that outlined his somber themes. Buffet: A Life of Success, Rejection and Now a Celebration 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z One is a dynamic seven-minute medley of various musical genres, including hip-hop, pop and merengue, while the other is a more somber piece that incorporates a video of images of poverty around the world. Prince William and Catherine to visit Skid Row 2011-07-05T22:46:04Z The strings of Carter Burwell’s score sometimes sound like birds of prey, and literal crows disrupt the somber, boxy frames with bursts of nightmarish cacophony. ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z This somber work may not be characteristic of Benitez’s style, but it is a fine example of its complexity. In the galleries: Two photographers, two perspectives 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Agee painted the walls to create illusions of file cabinets, water pipes and cleaning products, without disturbing the gloomy somber oval portraits of the rooms’ original owners, Robert and Hannah Milligan. Antiques: Antiques: ?Playing House? Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum 2012-02-23T23:23:42Z Stannis, with his dour gray attire and somber smirk, has the look and disposition of, like, a middle-manager at an office supply company, or a chartered accountant. Stannis “The Mannis” Baratheon: Why he’s the best “Game of Thrones” character — and rightful king of Westeros 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z King, he wrote, “is a very somber man who almost never smiles, but yesterday he was beaming.” Book excerpt: How Birmingham shaped MLK’s civil rights’ struggle 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Far from somber, however, the paintings reveal the joyful, almost musical nature of Opalka’s creative act. Looking Back at Roman Opalka's Attempt to Paint Every Number 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Its enchantments are dark, its ideas somber and brutal. Review: ‘Birdboy,’ a Disturbing Animated Feature from Spain 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z He wore dark suits and delivered his monologue framed by somber wood paneling and potted plants, a décor better suited to a personal injury law firm. The TV Watch: An Emotional Jay Leno Bids Goodbye to ‘Tonight’ 2014-02-07T07:54:10Z A mood of somber rumination falls over the fun like a slant of winter light. ‘The Worst Person in the World’ Review: Oslo, Her Way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z But its structure — in which soft expanses of consoling strings are the ground for interjections of somber trumpet and bursts of talkative flute — suggests the flutes are a single many-headed unit. Review: A Concerto Makes Two Soloists a Many-Tentacled Creature 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z If at times "Surveys" — with its easy tableau of precocious oversharing — appears to celebrate Internet acclaim, it ultimately becomes clear that its verdict regarding ephemeral, empty fame is all too somber. An edgy take on Internet fame vs. Hollywood fame: "Surveys" by Natasha Stagg 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z But it was far from a somber event: Michael Fassbender, a star of the movie – and an Oscar nominee for best supporting actor – celebrated with a shot of tequila. The Carpetbagger: At the Indie Spirits, Oscar Warm-Ups and Also-Ran Quips 2014-03-02T14:47:13Z The winner was "Ida," a somber nun's tale from Poland and very different from Szifron's light touch with dark forces. Critic's pick: Oscar-nominated 'Wild Tales' conjures revenge fantasies 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Some of the more somber black and white looks resembled composition notebooks – elementary, but chic. The Shows That Brought A-listers Back to Fashion Week 2014-02-13T19:25:53Z While festive celebrations like parties are expected on Friday, there will also be somber remembrances. Fans plan remembrances for Jackson 1 year later 2010-06-24T20:20:00Z The most transfixing moment, however, came during the somber, lingering final strand of Copland’s Piano Sonata, which Mr. Tao played with bittersweet tenderness. Bach Breathing Free: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z It is an admittedly gloomy piece, and the somber English horn solos, representing Mélisande’s forlorn voice, were poignant. Kavakos ends two-week NSO residency by taking up the baton 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z In the second movement, a gorgeous, somber pas de deux pulls the focus inward, like sheltering in place. Review: The Costume Dramas of New York City Ballet 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z During “Constellation,” it emerges by surprise four minutes into the somber hymn. Chuck Johnson’s Ode to What’s Been Lost in California’s Fires 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Much of the work for the next several years is somber, under a shadow. Growing, Faltering, Changing, Growing: Lessons From Kay WalkingStick 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Mia Couto's somber and masterfully wrought novel "Confession of the Lioness" examines a village in danger, a place where "the border between order and chaos was being erased." 'Confession of the Lioness' is a somber dance of hunter and hunted 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Gelb recalled Mr. Domingo sitting in his dressing room, somber and more nervous than usual, before the Met’s live broadcast of “Luisa Miller” this spring. Plácido Domingo, Opera Superstar, Achieves the Unthinkable: 150 Roles 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Those ideas spilled over into Harris’s “Exodus,” too, although the tone was more somber. Our dream selves, and getting through grief, with Alvin Ailey dancers 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z A bold and thoughtful but often workmanlike play, “Rabbit Summer” is billed as a “tragicomedy” — an arguably fitting moniker given the somber themes and plot twists that complicate the banter and wry situations. Review | Two plays tackle American history, from police brutality to the presidency 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s been a characteristic of the show so far to place its most dramatic action scenes, the always dicey surgeries, early in the episodes and to end on quieter, more somber notes. 'The Knick' Recap: Sins of the Flesh, With a Kick 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z His best films as a director express a genuine sensibility: a somber, apocalyptic vision belied by some of the more lurid titles in his filmography. DVDs: The Apocalypse Served Straight Up 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z Instead, much of the briefing coverage focused on Trump’s change to a more somber tone. Perspective | Media coverage of the 2016 campaign was disastrous. Now’s the last chance to get 2020 right. 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z It was a somber occasion, and there’s apparently a certain expectation that the President’s attire should match the mood. In Defense of President Obama's Tan Suit 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The lyrics are somber, mourning death and reflecting, “We are only visitors on this Earth”; the music is alive in the here and now. Weezer’s Rock ’n’ Roll Nostalgia Trip, and 10 More New Songs 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Maybe you want car chases, gunfights, quotable catchphrases and somber meditations on violence, justice and the American West. ‘Cry Macho’ Review: The Good, the Bad and the Poultry 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Too bad “Carrie” is otherwise such a somber, sluggish dance with death. ‘Carrie’ draws too little blood Mr. Laredo’s restrained tempo allowed this somber music to emerge with breadth and eerie calm. Music Review: New York String Orchestra, Conducted by Jaime Laredo, at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-31T21:05:36Z But lots of comedic fight scenes break up the story’s more somber stretches, and the animation, especially in 3-D, is simply gorgeous. In ‘Kung Fu Panda 3,’ a New Dad Who Talks Like Bryan Cranston 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z A high point of the evening is Adams' somber, soulful setting of the poem "Passover" by Holocaust survivor Primo Levi that closes Act 1. John Adams' staged `Gospel' has NY premiere 2013-03-29T13:55:09Z The movie, the eighth, is tightly focused and as somber and unsettling as it should be considering its apocalyptic events. | 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2': Childhood Vanishing in Swirls of Smoke 2011-07-14T01:03:02Z Sixteen years after her rock anthem hit "Nobody's Wife," Anouk returns to the international stage with the somber "Birds." Blinking skirts, fake tans: It must be Eurovision 2013-05-17T17:21:13Z "Today is a somber day in Nigeria, as Chinua Achebe was laid to rest in his native village," Rice tweeted, according to Politico. Chinua Achebe dies a second time, thanks to social media 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The original memorial includes 2,711 concrete slabs of varying heights, arranged in a grid pattern, that serves as a somber reminder of the six million Jews who were killed by the Nazis. German artists build Holocaust memorial near far-right leader's home 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The first single, “Soldier of Love,” is as close as Sade gets to current R&B with its martial percussion, subterranean bass throb, sudden zaps of samples and somber strings. 2010-02-06T00:53:00Z But this applies just to the first part of the opening movement of the Bartok, which Ms. Batiashvili played with glowing sound and somber beauty. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-04T21:35:50Z The mood was at times jovial, at times somber. ‘She Saved Us’: Mourners Pay Tribute to Toni Morrison 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Instead, the film opts for a somber if gentle tone that, given the story, is equally ill suited. Review: ‘Short Skin,’ an Anatomical Sex Comedy 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z This review is, however, spot-on about the show's inner conflict of what world it wants to be in - a soaring and sometimes brutally somber historical epic, or a bombastic and romantic Disney-esque classic? Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The nominees, chosen by a committee of 40 with members in Los Angeles, New York and London, seem to reflect the current somber global mood. A Shock in the Foreign Language Category 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z He penned a wide range of work, from somber symphonies to popular television and film scores, including for “Serpico” and “Zorba the Greek” Body of Greek composer Theodorakis to lie in state 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z In the slow introduction to the first movement, somber themes and motifs emerged haltingly, as if trying to coalesce into something solid. 2010-01-09T01:00:00Z So the writer segues into a somber monologue inspired by Hurricane Katrina. Review: ‘(Not) Water’ Offers Too Much to Drink In 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Why do you want to create something that speaks to such a somber event? Some Asked, ‘Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Today, around 200 activists held a “Moral Monday” march from Christchurch Cathedral to the Thomas Eagleton Federal Courthouse to mark the somber anniversary. Cornel West, Deray McKesson arrested during “Moral Mondays” protest in Ferguson 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z It began with a piano prelude, impressionistic and somber, played by Fabian Almazan. Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, but Without Fanfare 2010-03-19T21:36:00Z It begins as a somber ballad set to basic minor chords. Kelela’s ‘Take Me Apart’ Is R&B That’s Intimate Inside and Out 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z But a Jan. 29 Tweet struck a more somber note: “On my own.” Bobbi Kristina Brown, Daughter of Whitney Houston, Dies at 22 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z The movie's opening image — a traveling shot of dying and dead men scattered across a field — shows a darker, more somber side of Tavernier. 'The Princess of Montpensier': Bold take on war, marriage and submission 2011-05-19T19:57:09Z On the ballad “Abundance” he fleshes out a somber cadence with limpid sustain. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-14T23:23:56Z On Sunday night, even as somber world events and a lack of air conditioning at the Hilton thickened the atmosphere, stars still found the spirit for tart jokes, mutual admiration and spoon-fed caviar. Golden Globes: Zings, hugs and coos behind the scenes 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z This production gets the tricky balance exactly right, leading to a final scene that plays like a somber punch line. Review: There's a lot to love in Balagan Theatre's poignant, fun 'Dr. Horrible' 2010-08-27T21:11:00Z They also buried the bodies amid a somber reflection on their own mortality. Malaysia TV completes quest for Muslim role model 2010-08-01T02:06:00Z Lawrence, somber and subdued, gradually coaxes her character into view. ‘Causeway’ Review: Companions on a Hard Road to Recovery 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z So self-effacing is Spears’s style that the somber drone at the beginning of this new piece emerges without pause from the ensemble’s tuning, as if by accident. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Much like the sermonizing Father Mapple in Chapter 9, Melville is a dazzling entertainer with a somber purpose. On the trail of ‘Moby-Dick’ in three New England towns 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z The Deadline of ‘The Killing’ When “The Killing” set off on its somber course in April 2011, viewers didn’t expect to wade through two seasons of Seattle murk to answer “Who killed Rosie Larsen?” Television: The Deadline of ‘The Killing’ 2013-07-26T20:11:26Z Netflix places more emphasis on whether a show is uplifting, somber or redemptive than on genre or who the director is. The Netflix Executives Who Bent Comedy to Their Will 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z They have distinctive individual moments: workers in bulky coveralls clowning and dancing under Lenin’s portrait; a somber Georgian family taking a roadside meal near an Orthodox monastery. | 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century': ?Henri Cartier-Bresson,? a Retrospective at MoMA 2010-04-08T22:08:00Z “One Hand, One Heart” from Bernstein’s “West Side Story” is disappointing: too somber, slow and self-consciously operatic. Classical Playlist: Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello, Milton Babbitt, Handel and More 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The diversity of modern life was at the core, with the concept that the same man might wear a somber, earth-brown zippered coat or a formal jacket with leggings. Special Report: Fashion: Skirting the Issue of Gender 2011-06-26T16:53:58Z In a more somber and troubling sequence, Mr. Diamond’s camera watches the faces of grade-school students at the Crow Agency as they watch the scenes of Indians being slaughtered in “Little Big Man.” | 'Reel Injun': Neil Diamond Considers Hollywood?s Indians 2010-06-13T22:18:00Z And yet you might have noticed that the sort of somber indulgence in nostalgia, anxiety and desire for which O’Connell became known – which became the O’Connell brand – is everywhere now. Ryan O’Connell on Thought Catalog, trolling & the Millennial angst tipping point: “The more you write about your personal life, the less you have one” 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z A lesser story might have ended on this somber note, but this one has a surprising twist. When First We Practice to Deceive 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Such occasional flashes of humor lighten the tone of a generally somber narrative, which darkens definitively when, after eight years in the wilderness, Mustafa stumbles across five Spanish horsemen. Surviving the New World in Laila Lalami's 'The Moor's Account' 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The saxophone, Berlioz thought, is the instrument that most closely resembles the human voice and is “the finest voice we have” for somber works. 2010-01-31T06:12:00Z After the glad-handing, Mr. Adams spoke in a low, somber tone. Obama and Bob Iger Speak at a Sandy Hook Benefit in Manhattan 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Despite the somber décor, the place thrums with a happy, friendly vibe. At this West Seattle spot, pizza is taken seriously 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Now, as the Capitol’s security gave way, the bitter reality of America’s civic tragedy finally materialized in the “citadel” of democracy, as Biden referred to it in a brief, somber statement. Perspective | The grand finale of the Trump show: America watches farce devolve to horror 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Where there was sparkle and glitter, the silhouettes were kept simple, the fabrics almost somber. Marc Jacobs marks a poetic end to a fashion season of reassuring upheaval 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z In it, Mary runs a shelter for unemployed and homeless women with the somber Martha. Gustavo Dudamel and Valery Gergiev Face National Issues 2014-04-03T12:00:01Z Like "The Daily Show," "Rosewater" leavens a somber reality with humor. Telluride: Jon Stewart's 'Rosewater' leavens a somber story with humor 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s more somber in themes and more textured in sound, with synthesizers, acoustic guitar and vocal chorales layered into the punk-minimalist blitz. Review | Japandroids deliver songs of fire and decay. With full-on audience participation. 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Even its earliest songs found a somber sweet spot amid loss, self-doubt, disillusionment and fading but obsessive romance. The National Gives Its Sound a Jolt on ‘Sleep Well Beast’ 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The program was somber; he has described it in an interview as a reaction to the death of a close friend. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z But some confusion is introduced because Smith and Roumain have, alongside these somber, stand-alone statements, embedded a loosely developed, difficult-to-follow plot about a gang rivalry, formed from composites of interview subjects. Review: In Chicago, an Opera Triptych Reaches for Connection 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Some ceremonies were somber and clouded with grief still evident a decade after the attacks. Remembering 9/11 in the Chicago area 2011-09-12T11:49:00Z A somber sky, laden with wind-tossed, gray clouds, provided an appropriate setting for our visit to Skull Island, aptly named for its assorted skulls of chiefs and vanquished warriors. On Solomon Islands, take a deep dive into Pacific war history 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z “From the outside, it would seem that he was somber, but he was just really focused,” Harris said. Epilogue: Music could not save Aaron Rushing 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Instead, it’s the somber first single, “Where Are We Now?” David Bowie Challenges Listeners on The Next Day 2013-03-11T15:50:39Z It traded the cerebral for the physical, the somber for the silly. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z She wore a black robe for the final segment, which featured intelligently wrought selections by Hahn, as well as Charles Koechlin’s somber “November,” which hints that most passions are finite. Music Review: Alice Coote Presents an Evening of French Art Songs 2014-01-31T21:25:00Z In it she explores her Polish roots; it is a somber, mysterious work that hints at ritual. Dance Review: Works by David Parsons and Katarzyna Skarpetowska 2013-01-16T18:51:10Z "Simply put, Whitney would have wanted the music to go on and her family asked that we carry on," Davis to an initially somber audience. Grammy party turns to tribute for late Whitney Houston 2012-02-12T10:45:00Z Fleming began with some paleness of tone, but grew in command through the evening, past her characteristic propriety to a kind of somber nobility. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Beginning Wednesday, New York Theater Ballet brings Antony Tudor’s somber 1937 masterpiece “Dark Elegies” and an original work by young choreographers set to Philip Glass and steel drums. Dance Listings for July 29-Aug. 4 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z But the song that best captures Minaj’s predicament comes first: “All Things Go,” a somber confession that alludes to a rocky marriage, a teenage abortion and a string of strained relationships with her immediate family. What we talk about when we talk about Nicki Minaj, ‘The Pinkprint’ and pop music as conversation fuel 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z “Solitude” is a somber study in black, gray and shades of dark red; it’s abstract, except that its thin vertical lines are topped with silhouetted buds, transforming them from zips into stalks. In the galleries: Step right up and see the sideshow 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z He descends and turns round and round in the center, his full black skirt swirling around him, then leaves as a somber crowd files on, still in silence. Dance Review: They Stumble That Run Fast, These Star-Crossed Shakespearean Lovers 2011-06-24T23:17:04Z The effect is hardly somber; rather, it adds to the drama and richness of ingredients. Donna Hay’s ‘Life in Balance,’ reviewed: Good-looking, good eats 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z Created just last year, the dance is Taylor at his best — especially for those who like the more somber and twisty side of his work. Paul Taylor company dances to a new tune at Meany 2012-10-06T20:28:04Z The somber and sentimental Béjart ballet “Song of a Wayfarer” falls into an uninspiring category: the not-worst ballet by a hollow choreographer. At the Joyce, a Feast of Dancers at a Sometimes Meager Table 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z A Perfect Circle is somber, pondering loss, self-destruction and devastation; its repertory centers on dirges that often turn explosive. Music Review: A Desolate Croon That Seethes and Hints at a Band?s Next Phase 2011-07-15T22:44:06Z “Paterno” is a somber, quietly dramatic and ultimately depressing foray into a moment that’s almost too upsetting to rehash, and seems further back in the old-news file than it really is. Review | Despite ‘Paterno’s’ ambiguities, Al Pacino is an effective — and pathetic — JoePa 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z While “The Three Musketeers” regales the reader with humor as well as derring-do, it nonetheless closes on a somber note. Review | If you only know ‘The Three Musketeers,’ you owe yourself the pleasure of its sequel, ‘Twenty Years After’ 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Beneath the heavier, somber strands that animate Kha’s work, there’s a sense of humor running through it, too. A Photographer Frames His Own American South 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z It was a deeply chastened and somber Blagojevich who appeared in court Tuesday, a stark contrast to the defendant who entered and left court with a swagger during his two criminal trials. Hard time looking likely for Blagojevich 2011-12-07T03:48:00Z It often makes for a more somber sensibility, though Fulks’ wry sense of humor remains fully intact on “Aunt Peg’s New Old Man.” Robbie Fulks on how not to be “a guy in his 50s singing about sex or good times or even the opposite, about married contentedness” 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z "Harvest" and "Cowgirl in the Sand" are somber and beautiful, but "Ambulance Blues" is the highlight of the film. 'Neil Young Trunk Show': At 64, he's even better 2010-03-18T20:54:00Z It opens as a comic portrait of a midlife crisis, but concludes as a somber cautionary tale frothing with cataclysms, including fire and gunplay. Joshua Cohen's novel 'Moving Kings' is brilliant 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z But before long, Wollschleger’s piece works a gorgeous changeup by allowing its more striated tones to flower into full motivic passages, beautiful on their own terms even as the overall harmonic world remains somber. Review: A Pianist’s Inheritance Inspires Little Masterpieces 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z British, somber, small-town setting, stunning scenery, detective partners with issues — check. Review: ‘Hidden,’ a Detective Story Under Gray Welsh Skies 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Yet the character will be a flamboyant, strutting performer, he said, rather than a somber representation of sorrow. Will ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ Take Flight on the Stage? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Robert Johnson’s “Love in Vain” assumes a more somber clip, briefly shaping up as a showcase for Mr. Palmer. The Blues? Overcoming Hard Times Through Swinging Elegance 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z “But lots of comedic fight scenes break up the story’s more somber stretches, and the animation, especially in 3-D, is simply gorgeous. The kiddies might not appreciate the artistry, but grown-ups certainly will.” What’s on TV Sunday 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Wiig, in particular, has displayed a lot of range, from her quirky “SNL” characters to her more somber outings as a dramatic actress. “Ghostbusters” reboot: Let’s weigh the pros and cons of the new cast 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z To a soundtrack of somber music and the cries of children, the video showed close-ups of corpses and body parts. Seeing Bucha atrocities is turning point for media, viewers 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Even Laurel and Hardy lovers may be put off by its somber, experimental mood. Imagining the Unhappy Life of Stan Laurel 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Dressed in somber all-black, he spoke at length about his childhood, his time in detention, the Grammy Awards ceremony he missed and how growing up without legal status shaped the person he became. 21 Savage on ICE Detention, the Grammys and His Uncertain Future 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z The somber green of pine and spruce and claret stems of red osier are vivid in comparison. Trekking With Wolves 2010-02-20T06:14:00Z Similarly somber, mind-boggling tales are made increasingly intense by being delivered in a matter-of-fact way in this dark, spare reading, directed by Bob Balaban. Theater Review: ‘The Exonerated,’ Revived at the Culture Project 2012-09-20T02:12:06Z Slow-motion footage and piano tinkling are not enough on their own to create drama, and worse, the somber narrative tone is at odds with the tense joy created by the interactive play. ‘Watch Dogs,’ an Adventure Game From Ubisoft 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z In the opening work, Strauss’s “Metamorphosen” — a somber but surging “study for 23 solo strings,” as Strauss described it — the ensemble played with unrelenting vigor, the violinists and violists standing throughout. Music Review: Nézet-Séguin Brings Philadelphia Orchestra to Carnegie Hall 2014-02-23T22:56:56Z Still, it was preferable to the somber meditation on male body issues from Laura Brienza, “War Zones,” that employed metaphors of combat to explore anorexia. Theater: A Fringe Too Tame? Too Bad 2010-08-23T22:21:00Z The fittingly somber piano-key intro of "Somber" belies its potential as a casual banger, because this is a grunge-rap party track with growing power. 5 Songs to Listen to This Week 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z For all the production’s perennially smoky hints of hellfire, Giovanni’s end comes amid a vision of the underworld, projected onto the set, that is far more somber — and more disturbing — than the usual weak flames. Review: At the Met, a New ‘Don Giovanni’ Has a Stark Vitality 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z Collins: It felt tense and somber to me. ‘The moment when it really started to feel insane’: An oral history of the Scaramucci era 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Mr. McCartney and Mr. Starr, along with most critics, hailed “Get Back” as an upbeat corrective to Mr. Lindsay-Hogg’s more somber take. Directing the Beatles Was Just One Part of His Long and Winding Career 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z The 007 star trades his signature suit for a flowing blond wig, dress, pearls and sensible heels in the somber clip which highlights inequalities faced by women around the world. Bond, Jane Bond: Daniel Craig sports drag 2011-03-07T17:48:08Z In “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” the director Ryan Coogler feeds his own and the public’s grief into the story, infusing the movie with somber notes of family loss and collective mourning. ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Review: Women on the Home Front 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z It was impossible not to be stunned by the contrast between the festive present and the somber past. Echoes From the Roman Ghetto 2013-07-12T17:36:12Z In its somber beauty — somehow both weightless and heavy-hearted — it’s part of a long tradition of classical music inspired by loss. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “Investigating Grace” features Daniel Santos — who moves with liquid agility — as the main soloist in an alternately somber and playful work set to Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Dance Review: Handbook on Elegance Takes Form and Flight 2011-08-10T22:26:58Z It’s a somber, agonizing vigil for the Houston and Brown families. Bobbi Kristina Brown's Family Keep Bedside Vigil 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z He used somber colors that didn’t distract from the heady idea of attaching the personal to the universal, of underlining his identity on a gallery wall even while striking it through. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z He is sincere and reassuring and not somber. Would you help your good friend die? 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z It’s more like a Wagnerian music-drama, a somber story built around intimations of doom and orchestrated with a soundtrack of pounding drums and high-pitched wailings and ululations. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But “Liberty” is at its best when it goes beyond the starry-eyed patriotism to explore a more somber history. Review: Lady Liberty Steps Off Her Pedestal to Sing 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z He wrote more than 30 plays, many of them one-acts, some comic, some somber, wide-ranging in theme and content and often steeped in literary and historical references. Romulus Linney, Wide-Ranging Playwright, Dies at 80 2011-01-16T01:16:25Z About the closest thing to anything somber were separates in vivid blue and dresses that still popped with a black-and-white pattern. Kate Spade brand honors its late founder at New York fashion show 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Much of the score, conducted here with fervor by Reinbert de Leeuw, feels somber, starting with the sighing motif that opens the work and recurs throughout. Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The prevailing attitude is that Black Lives Matter supporters should be angry or somber or respectful or righteous, but not snarky or sarcastic. Trevor Noah's wit is an effective weapon against white supremacy and defense of police violence 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z But introducing the wives in a somber quintet is a curiously formal way to begin. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z “A lot of his work was somber,” he added, “and some audience members felt a little excluded, exiled.” 2010-02-07T18:11:00Z In “Daydreaming,” a somber, undulating piano waltz, Mr. Yorke croons, “Beyond the point of no return/and it’s too late, the damage is done.” Review: In Radiohead’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool,’ Patient Perfectionism 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z But what elevates this trilogy is the somber, quiet storytelling, with the actors' words and emotions given time to register. 'The Dark Knight Rises' — breathtaking Batman finale 2012-07-18T18:13:03Z Ned’s determination is noble, and Lancaster makes this “tragic antihero” empathetic as the film’s tone becomes increasingly somber and sobering. The 10 best movies that take place in one day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z What appealed to you on the more somber side of things? Welcoming Back Live Theater Doesn’t Mean Agreeing About All of It 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Once again without fail, it produced a mix of bubble-gum pop songs, somber ballads, bagpipes, accordions and bizarrely kitsch musical productions. Denmark’s de Forest Wins Eurovision Song Contest 2013-05-19T00:48:42Z "Glee" bid farewell to Monteith and his character in a somber episode last month. 'Glee,' Bullock and Perry lead People's Choice nominees 2013-11-05T22:36:06Z “It’s a very somber moment here, but his legacy will live on,” Kinneva Brown said as she visited Paisley Park on Friday. Clues to the Mystery of Prince’s Final Days 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z And she started painting - dark somber pictures depicting the death camps that alternated with joyful images of pre-war life on the road in her family's horse-drawn wagon. Roma artist, writer on Nazi atrocities, dies at 79 2013-01-30T13:26:09Z From New York City of the 1940s, Billie Holiday walks seductively into the text, “glittering, somber and solitary,” a woman singing her own oracular doom. In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The first minute and change of “For George Lewis” is dominated by sustained flute tones, and brooding piano figures redolent of somber ritual. For Music, a Fall Deluge of Performances Is Beginning 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Even the applause at the end of the song seemed more subdued, more somber. Visiting Puerto Rico, and Finding the Up Beat 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z He became known for matching somber, yet comforting tones with rugged, crackling drums. J Dilla Was a Revered Rap Producer. A New Book Deepens His Legacy. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z The photographs are printed in a muted palette of silvery grays, creating a somber glow. An American artist's provocative tribute to a 1970s German radical 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z On a typical day, a woman first passes a small cluster of hecklers who keep a vigil outside, sometimes noisy, sometimes prayerfully somber. It’s not just forced ultrasound: Abortion rights under assault 2012-10-21T12:00:00Z Paris fashion week started on quite a somber note, but knows critics were cognizant of the old saying about show business — and ready for a little performative distraction. | Mugler Wins! 2011-03-04T02:45:13Z The surprise came in the somber radiance of Jamar Roberts’s new work, “Members Don’t Get Weary,” which had its premiere on Friday at New York City Center. At Ailey, a Dance Set to Coltrane Finds a Somber Radiance 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z “Joker” distances itself from typical superhero films, with director Todd Phillips, who said he took inspiration from 1970s character study movies, using somber lighting and dark music throughout. 'Joker' wins Golden Lion at Venice, Polanski drama is runner-up 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Inside the packed auditorium, a somber crowd watched raptly until the show’s end, with Mr. Hall — seemingly a stand-in for Mr. Bowie — lying on the floor inside the outline of a rocket ship. After David Bowie’s Death, ‘Lazarus’ Holds New Meaning for Fans 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z “Schubert’s Winter Journey” both deepens and contextualizes this emotionally somber masterpiece, the ideal music for darkest February. Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Intentionally or not, they gathered images that complicate and to some extent subvert the somber, emptied-out language of the regime, disclosing a complicated human reality beneath the ideological boilerplate. ‘State Funeral’ Review: Saying Goodbye to Stalin 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The vibe on the arena floor was somewhat celebratory, but somewhat somber, with whiffs of denial, indignation and jubilation. This is what it feels like at the Republican convention in Cleveland 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z At 9, the focus turns somber with DIANA, 7 DAYS, which recounts her death and the worldwide mourning. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Goldbergs’ and ‘Riverdale’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z There is fear, cowering and compassion among comrades, an echo of the gentleness in Beethoven's somber String Quartet No. 15. Jessica Lang's vision is far-reaching in company's program at Irvine Barclay Theatre 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z As this day also marks the anniversary of the death of Claire’s husband, the mood is as somber as it is festive. David Greenspan's 'Go Back to Where You Are': charmingly offbeat and yet off by a beat 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The players brought a bone-dry austerity to this somber tune, delivering it without a trace of its usual quavery pathos. Review: Skies clear, chamber players shine at Seattle Chamber Music Society's festival opener 2010-07-06T23:45:00Z For me, it was the one on Friday night, a somber yet intense set that began with Jlin’s “Little Black Book” and ended with Jacob Garchik’s “Storyteller.” As Bang on a Can Returns, a New Generation Rises 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z The news of the immeasurable, yet familiar, loss of life weighed heavily on my mind, but something immensely somber wrapped around my soul. We fill queer spaces with joy and belonging. That’s why they’re under attack 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z With the arena lights dimmed, Eilish led the crowd in a moment of silence to honor Hawkins before she and Finneas opened an acoustic run with a somber “I Love You.” Review: Billie Eilish thrills Seattle crowd in Climate Pledge Arena debut 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z The ambition aptly includes tonal complexity, with humor dappling the somber. Review | Constellation’s ‘Children of Medea’ spins a dreamscape family portrait 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Rather than reflecting on such somber and sordid matters, however, the American political establishment together with ambitious members of the country’s intelligentsia found it so much more expedient simply to move on. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The performance is so convincing that you can’t help wondering to what degree Nolan resembles the more somber Robin Williams, who died in August. Review: Robin Williams as a Hustler-Hiring Husband in ‘Boulevard’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The Adagio is like a homage to the slow movement of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto: a fraught dialogue between a feisty, somber orchestra and a questioning piano. Leon Kirchner CD With Piano Concerto No. 1 and ?Lily? 2011-10-29T04:30:09Z By contrast, the characters in Modern Warfare 2 are somber, even dour. 'Battlefield: Bad Company 2': Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Shifts Momentum in This War 2010-04-07T21:46:00Z That same channel had a less somber way of looking at death: “Best Funeral Ever,” which had its premiere 10 days after the assassination anniversary. Staring at the End, in Several Senses 2013-12-13T19:29:33Z The partners of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce summoned the entire staff for an announcement as somber as a declaration of war. Thrills More Boardroom Than Bedroom 2010-10-14T21:27:00Z Mark Stanley’s lighting for “Acheron” is both somber and shadowy. Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z The action takes a turn toward the somber at the end of Act I, when the village is converted into a war zone, and the residents are sent elsewhere. Review: Instead of a ‘War Horse,’ This Time a Lost Cat Opens a Child’s Eyes 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z While the tone may be somber at times, there is also much to celebrate. A Showcase for the Abundance and Breadth of Indigenous Performance 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Yet there was a strong vibe to this summer show that seemed subversive rather than somber. Sporty? It's the Olympics, Stupid! 2012-09-18T17:23:29Z “In a Better World,” directed by the Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier and written by Anders Thomas Jensen, is an elegant, somber scourge for the guilty conscience of the affluent, liberal West. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z No talk about excitement from Democrats, just lip-biting grimaces and words like “sober,” “somber” and “sad.” Washington is again captivated by an anonymous source. It’s different now. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z When I reached Roy at home in New Delhi to talk about the collection, she was noticeably somber. Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Wearing a long dress, with sparkling bracelets on each wrist, she was a somber celebrant, allowing herself a smile only between songs. Review: Diamanda Galás Has Dark Moments and Gallows Humor 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The band was more somber for a doleful version of “St. James Infirmary” sung by Jim James of My Morning Jacket; the song then turned upbeat for a return of the dancers. Music Review: Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Carnegie Hall - Review 2012-01-08T23:16:20Z The movie is a somber, gently touching intergenerational reflection of shared memories and speculations about the future that adds up to a no-frills affirmation of familial bonds. At New York Film Festival, Michael Haneke and Raúl Ruiz 2012-10-02T12:35:42Z Wearing her arresting costumes, which serve to shield the body in somber moments of pathos or to expand and articulate it in action, the performers could almost be mistaken for healers. Review: A Dance Searching for Harmony in an Unequal World 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z She didn't just read off horrific facts in a somber tone, Bee's face and body revealed her authentic reaction — part astonishment, part dismay — at the way America treats those who are most vulnerable. Sam Bee's "Full Frontal" moral compass: Why her brand of comedy is more important than ever 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z At the nearby Field Museum, a somber crowd filled the small space for the "Ground Zero 360" exhibit. Remembering 9/11 in the Chicago area 2011-09-12T11:49:00Z Even when the characters are not singing, a few somber notes from the cello or a sprinkling of piano arpeggios give us subtle intimations of the inner turbulence in their souls. | 'A Minister's Wife': Three Hearts Butt Heads in One Marriage 2011-05-09T02:01:03Z Mr. Aucoin shows respect for the tender, charming words by setting them to somber music of lyrical pining over restless orchestral stirrings. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Most exhibits in the 110,000-square-foot museum are underground, fittingly somber for the emotionally gripping exhibits. New York City: In memory of Sept. 11 devastation 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z No series is better at mixing laugh-out-loud comedy and somber themes than “Mom,” which managed that difficult feat with particular skill in this February episode. The Memorable TV Episodes of 2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Bawdy Southern rapper 2 Chainz will provide an antidote to the somber beauty of Beach House and the studied quirkiness of Vampire Weekend. Lollapalooza 2013: Which day rocks the hardest? 2013-05-14T15:20:00Z In “City in Transition,” we hopscotch over 90 minutes among four pieces of varying styles and tones, from Omo-Osagie’s somber Northwest memory play, “Child’s Place,” to Ali-Coleman’s bitterly funny Southeast satire, “Fundable.” Review | ‘City in Transition’ is an exhilarating journey across Washington through the eyes of Black artists 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Minted released new cards, with language that reflects the somber mood, like ones that say, “Stronger for This,” or “So This Guy Just Graduated. Virtually.” No Pomp and Circumstance? No Problem 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Lowery’s reputation is due in part to this somber quasi western. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches’ and Awards Shows 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z There is less in-your-face grit in Cape Town-born director Oliver Schmitz's vision for this film than there is a careful pacing of somber revelations. 'Life, Above All' ? measured tale of AIDS in South Africa 2011-08-19T16:10:05Z In a somber speech, the governor of Puerto Rico stated that the debt situation was not just an election ploy, saying: “This is not politics, this is math.” Lin-Manuel Miranda Sings For Puerto Rico on 'Last Week Tonight' 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Taylor Swift sang one of the most somber songs in her catalog: “Soon You’ll Get Better,” about her mother, who has battled cancer. Pop Music Faces the Coronavirus in Prime Time 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z His last album remained somber and sly, still pithy and still skeptical about both the human and the divine; it was also attentive to musical detail. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Those stories — a recurring word — and their “inherited sadnesses” are the somber pulse beneath this novel’s more chaotic and unexpectedly upbeat energy. A Bawdy Novel Considers the Tragic Absurdities of Lebanon’s Civil War 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z There is throughout some lovely interlacing of bubbly pop and more somber, contemplative strains, as when Moran’s priest intones a prayerful counterpoint to the band’s aching love song “Dream for You.” ‘Sing Street’ Review: New Wave Music as Sweet Deliverance 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z His lyricism inhabits a haunting calm and produces a somber beauty. Music Review: The Tomasz Stanko Quintet Performs at Birdland 2010-04-14T21:27:00Z Mr. Merchant is so funny, though, that the guard’s later somber turn is awkward. Review: ‘Antigone’ Asserts Whose Lives Matter, With Modern Relevance 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The more than 100 murgas in Buenos Aires launched their annual festivities over the weekend in a last blowout before the start of the somber Christian season of Lent. Argentine music troupes launch carnival parades 2013-02-03T23:46:09Z Whatever the medium, his compositions share the same somber, moody and sometimes melancholy disposition. Composer Max Richter's project designed to lull listeners to 'Sleep' 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z The abundantly shameless, frequently wreckage-strewn nature of modern celebrity makes for some ironic switcheroos, as this afternoon's D-list punch line becomes the subject of tonight's somber eulogy. Don't eulogize Bret Michaels yet 2010-04-26T16:12:00Z McKay's critical stance would seem rather insincere on Get Away from Me if it were not for "Really," the somber ballad that concludes the album. Revisit Nellie McKay's "Get Away from Me," one of the great pop albums of the early 21st century 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z The “Nova” episode provides a somber antidote to his chirpiness. ‘The Bomb’ Helps Return Nukes to the TV Spotlight 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Thanks for the very informative, and somewhat somber, article on cemeteries. Letters: Readers on cemeteries, The Post’s Luxury Issue and active shooters 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The tone of “Georgie” turns somber near the end, when Mr. Dixon accepts an invitation to Rose’s vacation home in the Dominican Republic. Review: George Rose, From His Stage Life to His Unhappy End 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The pandemic had made things “somber, quiet,” said Lenin Peña, a 36-year-old Dominican who works in security and has lived here all his life. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In the Heights’ comes home 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z The staging was stark and somber, in contrast to the multimedia extravaganzas of past Anderson tours. Laurie Anderson 9/11 concert at Park West revisited 2013-09-11T21:15:00Z His new “Wrath of Man” is such an item, although it’s more somber and less rollicking than the likes of “Lock.” ‘Wrath of Man’ Review: ‘H’ Has Some Fury 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The tenor’s lines are lyrical yet direct and somber, rising to fits when the imagery turns tense, but never losing authority. Review: Paul Appleby Performs ‘Merrill Songs’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z But the blend of narrative quasi-realism and wild, somber visual invention in “Consuming Spirits” is entirely original. Movie Review: ‘Consuming Spirits,’ an Animated Film by Chris Sullivan 2012-12-12T00:01:20Z With more somber reservations, a friend of mine from Baton Rouge shared that whenever she sees the ads in Brooklyn, she imagines a black person beyond its borders, “waiting to be shot.” The Bourne Masculinity: Matt Damon’s hyper-aggressive, emotionally fragile “good guy with a gun” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z His set ended on a somber note, as he paid tribute to fellow Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo, who was killed in a car crash last month. Gucci Mane, taking a spin through his catalogue, shows why he’s idolized by rappers and fans 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Auden — and his answer was both somber and sublime. ‘Empire of Light’ Review: They Found It at the Movies 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z In the somber opening of the second movement, marked Allegro religioso, Mr. Bavouzet voiced the theme with careful attention to the slight inner dissonances that tweak the calming harmonies. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Shai Wosner 2012-08-12T19:54:07Z What fun it is to watch Thompson, so often cast in somber roles, land it impeccably. ‘Endgame’ Review: A Laugh at the Apocalypse? 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The somber tone of much of the album contrasts with what sounds like a pretty joyful — and glitteringly Manhattan — experience making it. Elvis Costello’s New York Soul 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z At high-profile gatherings, even those of her clients who once shied away from this most somber of hues are changing their tune. What Pops in a Sea of Shrill Color? Hint: It’s Not Pink 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Day after day, he works in his somber, claustrophobic store while dodgy types parade in and out, dropping envelopes in a locked box. ‘The Outfit’ Review: The Violent Measure of a Man 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z "The red cloak was the perfect way to brighten up my somber black outfit in a fresh way," she says. Plaid scarves, fleece-lined boots and pea coats won't do 2011-12-05T17:18:31Z In a Swiss Limbo, Sadly Bracing for Expulsion Worlds collide with the utmost courtesy in “Special Flight,” a somber and beautifully modulated documentary filmed at a Swiss detention center for undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers. Television Review: ‘Special Flight’ Centers on a an Immigrant Detention Center 2013-06-30T21:55:41Z This year's festival closes in somber contrast the following night with Simon Rattle leading the Vienna Philharmonic in Elgar's profoundly humorless spiritual epic of repentance, "The Dream of Gerontius." At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z While the clothes were like Abloh — playful, colorful and vibrant — the mood was somber. Louis Vuitton show pays tribute to designer Virgil Abloh 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z “This is a somber day,” someone on one cable network said, before the station broke to a commercial for psoriasis treatment. Perspective | The queen’s funeral doesn’t have to be about the queen 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Keyboards and percussion, not guitars, are in the foreground; somber marches and quasi-tribal beats largely replace hard rock. Music Review: Unafraid of Altering a Winning Formula 2011-02-06T22:43:51Z I found this book to be unbearably moving in its playful, strange, soulful assessment of what it means to be alive at a somber time. He’s 101, She’s 32, and It’s the End of the World 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z It injects a gratuitous note of melodrama into a movie whose undercurrents of humor keep it from becoming painfully somber. Movie Review: ‘My Brothers,’ Directed by Paul Fraser 2012-11-30T00:49:55Z What sets this attraction apart is how workers, acting as the Mansion’s eerie butlers and maids, can melt into their somber, creepy characters as part of the ride’s ghoulish aesthetic. Disney’s Haunted Mansion at 50: The Ghosts Are Still Grinning 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z But they won’t wait for long, because I can now clearly see that there will come a time when the riotous red-dress occasions are overtaken in quantity by somber black-dress ceremonies. Sexy dresses that barely fit 2013-01-02T00:30:00Z In the opening movement, the violins dispatched the main theme — a jabbing phrase of four sustained whole notes that breaks into restless flourishes — with incisive attack and somber intensity. Music Review: At Mostly Mozart, Osmo Vanska and Antti Siirala 2010-08-15T22:23:00Z In a quandary about how to grow up without diminishing her capacity for wonder, Amélie sets out to become a secular saint, discreetly intruding into the lives of others to turn somber narratives momentarily joyous. The off-kilter charms of 'Amelie,' made musical at the Ahmanson 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z If directing a movie in the Ghana jungle with the somber subject matter of child soldiers wasn’t already difficult work, try also acting as the cinematographer for that film as well. Below the Line: Shooting ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z “It was quite sudden,” with a full stop and a somber expression, was once enough to signal people to change the topic. Perspective | Miss Manners: Guest shocked to see host’s four-legged dishwasher 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Its somber, bone-dry gruffness crumbles to dust, only to be replaced by adolescent jokiness. Valley of Violence Is Hounded by Its True Star 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Sunday morning, officially the fourth day of New York Fashion Week and one scheduled with back-to-back shows from some of the best-known designers, started on a somber note. A Day When Fashion and Tragedy Continue to Intersect 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z After a girl left him brokenhearted, the music from the Deftones album “White Pony” was there to help him through the somber time. Local Natives’ Kelcey Ayer brings solo project Jaws of Love to Barboza 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In 1981, Mr. Marshall produced one of his best-known works: “Fog Tropes,” a somber meditation that paired field recordings of foghorns in the San Francisco Bay Area with brass instruments. Ingram Marshall, Minimalist Composer of Mystical Sounds, Dies at 80 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Melamid, 77, ebullient in contrast to the somber Mr. Komar, said he was not nostalgic about the show but nevertheless called it historic: “I haven’t seen some of our works in 40 years.” Soviet Pop Art Duo Reunites for First U.S. Retrospective Since Their Breakup 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z A week or so after the bones arrived, I found Robert Clendon, a Te Papa conservator, his face somber, concentrated. Building Field Museum's beasts a giant undertaking 2011-05-17T00:27:00Z Some elements of Mr. Audiard’s style — off-center close-ups, restless camera movements, natural light and naturalistic sound — align him with the strain of austere, somber, ethically engaged European realism that often dominates the film festival circuit. Review: ‘Dheepan,’ About Sri Lankan Refugees, Looks Like a Prophecy 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z He’d slide from feral yowls to somber intonations, often in the same song, which captured the band’s roiling disquiet. Chris Cornell’s talents transcend the grunge genre he helped create 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The lower church, built in the Romanesque style, is somber, cave-like and complex, whereas the upper church, a fine example of Italian Gothic, is bright, spacious, rational. Tuscany as Henry James Knew It 2010-06-24T20:43:00Z The noir “Dreamland” season, though beautifully drawn, is more somber than the colorful “Archer: Danger Island.” Smart Watch: Ebola drama "The Hot Zone" has all the symptoms of a classic miniseries 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z These are rendered in blocks of somber color and with clean lines, often reversed into black and occasionally accented by red: for fire, say, or an Edenic apple. In the galleries: Artist takes a detour on her journey to the past 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z And the clarity of Mr. Curtola’s cooking now is a welcome change from what I ate in the early days, food that struck me as smart and artful but a little somber. At the Four Horsemen, the Food Catches Up to the Wine 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Ives described his piece as a “cosmic landscape” in which the somber tones played by the offstage strings represent “the silences of the Druids — who Know, See and Hear Nothing.” Music Review: A Tour of Two Continents: Jaunty Mexican Musings to Somber Cosmic Questions 2011-03-27T22:09:35Z After her remarks, a parade of somber models presented McQueen's final fashion collection for the upcoming fall season, which was rooted in several heavily embroidered, dramatic styles topped by feather-mohawk headpieces. Parker pays somber tribute to fashion's McQueen 2010-06-08T04:00:00Z Likewise, the panel’s somber shadows presage the subject’s inescapable death. ‘Mantegna and Bellini’ Review: A Family Affair 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z The mood was simultaneously somber and expectantly gay, like that of a family dressed for the reading of a will in which they were expecting good news. Young Socialites Conjure the Ghost of Leonard Bernstein at the Dakota 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z The first Perfume Genius albums were somber and solitary, filled with brooding keyboard ballads; Hadreas has since opened up to the dynamic, sometimes euphoric possibilities of pop and rock. Moses Sumney and Perfume Genius: Complex Voices of Desire 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z The same sensibility pulses through “Right One,” which takes place in a somber, denuded variation on the classic enchanted forest. ‘Let the Right One In,’ a Stark Vampire Love Story 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z That’s coming in two years, which, considering the film’s somber, quietly electrifying final scene, now seems as far away as the Galactic Empire. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ gets the nostalgia-novelty mix just right 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z A “Te Deum” and one of the Coronation Anthems, “The King shall rejoice,” are festive and brilliant, but Caroline’s funeral anthem, “The ways of Zion do mourn,” is exquisite, somber, burning with sadness. Classical Playlist: Tchaikovsky, Handel, John Adams and More 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z In the first movement’s somber prelude, he shaped the quizzical violin lines with affecting restraint, conveying the music’s improvisatory character. Review: The Philharmonic’s Concertmaster Steps Into the Spotlight 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Rush recalled — but the overall tone is somber. Fledgling Filmmaker Casts Against Type 2011-05-06T20:53:01Z The 66th annual Primetime Emmys took a somber turn toward the end to remember Robin Williams, the versatile actor and comedian who died two weeks ago in an apparent suicide at the age of 63. Emmys exalt old favorites over TV's shiny newcomers 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z For the next 10 hours, she performed somber music between news bulletins. Rosa Rio, Organist From Silent Films to Soap Operas, Dies at 107 2010-05-15T04:45:00Z Her complaint is in line with those of users requesting more somber or harrowing quotations to accompany the central message. Outing Death 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z One film with nothing on the line: “True Grit,” the somber western that has been burning up the box office and is expected to be a player at the Oscars. Early Golden Globe for Christian Bale in ?Fighter? 2011-01-17T02:25:41Z In a somber rendition of "Happy," Pharrell's dancers used the "Hands up, don't shoot" gesture, an expression of protest after the Ferguson, Mo., police shooting of Michael Brown. Grammy moments: Bottomless Madonna, boundless Kanye, endless telecast 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z He also gets somber, noting it is a harsh, hard life on the ice, and mentions in one interview that several of his friends have killed themselves. In the stunning yet grim "The Last Ice," melting glaciers and development threaten Inuit way of life 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z He drew magisterial anguish from the somber slow movement. Music Review: An Intimate Entree, Escorted by Beethoven 2014-03-13T22:21:16Z This could be a somber Finnish version of the festive outdoor fair in a St. Petersburg square evoked by Stravinsky at the beginning of “Petrushka.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-06-11T22:11:00Z Be that as it may, many urban views in the exhibition appear influenced by Atget’s somber attentiveness to the city’s byways. Art Review | 'Twilight Visions': Shocking Is Poetic at International Center of Photography 2010-03-11T23:02:00Z Here, late in his own life, with no time to spare, he painted in a style that’s broad and loose, the colors somber, the light shining as if through amber. Postcard From London: On a Gallery?s Walls, the Circle of Life 2011-06-15T20:23:29Z Paul’s apparent death brought a somber end to a suspenseful, plot-packed episode that turned the screws on our main characters and cleared up a few questions. 'True Detective' Recap: Paying the Price 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Their version is elegiac and somber, an appropriate tone to take on a song that's also about having a finite timeline to live. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z Compare and contrast that to Cuomo’s somber acknowledgment on Monday, not just of death, but also of powerlessness and pain: “That can’t be controlled,” he said of losing vulnerable patients. Perspective | Andrew Cuomo’s star turn is part of a long cinematic tradition 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Stephanie looked somber as she stood next to the captain, who spoke to us sternly. Drug search in the Panama Canal: How my high school adventure at sea almost ended 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Between the loose genesis and somber subject matter, the music on "The Messenger" is cohesive and engaging. "I went full Christmas": Rhett Miller on writing holiday songs for now and for the ages 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s a sound police procedural, a somber study of loss and redemption and, most of all, a grim effort to make sure that crimes against humanity are not forgotten. Ausma Zehanat Khan’s crime novel ‘The Unquiet Dead’ delves into sensitive terrain 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Scored for alto flute, bass clarinet, vibraphone/crotales, piano, violin, cello and electronic sounds and conducted here by Ransom Wilson, “The Light Within” unfolds with a somber, insistent propulsion. Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘The Light Within’ Highlights Ensemble Program at National Sawdust 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z He is vitally funny in dramatic roles, wrenchingly somber in comic ones. Tom Hollander Is Starring on Broadway, Poor Guy 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Implausible as it may seem, holiday accommodation in rural England isn't limited to twee little cottages, somber stately homes and drafty old castles with terrible plumbing. English Country Goes Rock-'N'-Roll 2011-03-10T12:15:00Z Russian films tend to be somber, brooding affairs, but even by those uncompromising national standards, Andrey Zvyagintsev's "Leviathan" is serious business indeed. Open up mighty 'Leviathan,' see bleak Russia's soul 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z As guests begin to leave the somber ceremony, a miracle! Review: From Last Rites to Marriage Vows in ‘Filomena Marturano’ 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Rushdie, for all his full-throatedness, “never wanted to be a symbol,” Mr. Kunzru said, citing “the horrible irony of this inventive, playful writer” being defined for many by “this dreadful, somber threat.” The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Earlier this year we savored Ros Anderson’s “The Hierarchies,” a delicate, nuanced, somber meditation on what it means to be an artificial being in a world of organic humans. Review | Simon Stephenson’s hilarious ‘Set My Heart to Five’ follows a robot with Hollywood aspirations 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z But there was an increasingly somber drumbeat within the orchestra, and throughout the music field. Alan Gilbert Wanted to Save the New York Philharmonic. What Happened? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z When Mr. Goerne sang of the daily drudgery at the hospital, “Bearing the bandages, water, and sponge,” his voice was somber and earthy. Review: A Baritone Ends His Residency With a Poetic Homage 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Its detached style and deliberate pacing give it a somber, almost existential feel, while its breathless action beats still deliver the goods. Stream These Ultra-Cool Heist Movies 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The performers converge on a darkened stage as snippets of somber news reports flicker on the projection of a stained-glass window. Review: Finding a Collective Groove in Church and in House Dance 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z His performance might profit from the addition of a few more varied notes — the downtrodden nature of the character is a tad monotonous — but there's something attractive about Anthony's somber goodness. John Patrick Shanley's 'Outside Mullingar' is just the thing for a happy cry 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Through more turns the poem sweeps in somber and giddy gyres. ‘Roget’s Ilusion’: wheels within wheels, words within words 2014-05-07T20:16:34Z Two light-hearted tales were among the favorites this year, unusual in Cannes where somber, downbeat films tend to dominate. Director's shame casts pall over classy Cannes 2011-05-20T14:14:15Z It’s a somber and emotional sci-fi drama, full of existential quandary as Ali’s dying man struggles with his decision and the difficulty of letting go. New this week: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’ 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z The music starts off somber but quickly turns celebratory. “I said goodbye like a lover": Sending off problem foods like a New Orleans jazz funeral 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z Typical for an xx track, Sim and Croft exchange somber lines about a fading relationship. The xx finds a quiet place in big-sound pop world 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z In this oral history, the Nobel laureate channels the memories of Russians who experienced World War II as children, allowing the malleable perception of youth to flash alongside the adult’s somber recollection. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Remembering their history is what many Jews worldwide will do when at sundown on July 21, they observe Tisha B’av, the most somber of Jewish holidays. Frederick Douglass, July 4th, and remembering Babylon in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The symphony can be seen as a somber looking back, its lyricism the wistful recollection of what’s lost as an impetus to rise and dance again, however crushing that outburst at the score’s end. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Lohan, wearing a dark gray suit, appeared somber and concerned when she conferred with her attorney about attaching an alcohol-monitoring bracelet to her ankle and requiring drug testing every week in the Los Angeles area. Lohan loses bid to ease restriction on drug tests 2010-05-24T17:13:00Z That very much includes the movie's somber closing shot and its nervy unwavering camera placement that Sight & Sound magazine called a candidate for the greatest film finale ever. The superb, thrilling 'Third Man' returns in a brilliant restoration 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z The opening sentence of “Ghosts of Harvard” clues readers in that the tone of this mystery will be more somber than Serritella’s essays: “Cady hadn’t set foot on Harvard’s campus since her older brother’s suicide.” Review | Lisa Scottoline’s daughter, Francesca Serritella, makes a name for herself as a novelist with ‘Ghosts of Harvard’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Britain's economic uncertainty and painful memories of the 1988 Lockerbie airplane bombing are somber undercurrents at the raucous Edinburgh Fringe, a vast buffet of performance, standup, theater and music that opened Friday. Lockerbie play draws attention at Edinburgh Fringe 2010-08-06T16:39:00Z Like its subject, it’s somber, yet it’s also prickly and strange, sometimes all at once. Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z A five-minute walk away from Kenmare’s Main Square, a somber mound features a large Bronze Age stone circle: 15 huge, standing stones surround a flat-topped boulder dolmen, marking an ancient seat of Celtic power. On Ireland’s southwest coast, history-rich Kenmare is the gateway to County Kerry 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z “Twiggy,” with its springy, percussive thrum, and “Dream Sketch,” with its somber, stately chord progression, both bear some resemblance to tracks found on “Highway Rider.” New Music: New Albums From VCMG, Brad Mehldau Trio and Henry Cole 2012-03-12T22:32:55Z Imagine that: somber Alfred Tennyson overcome by a sublime and solitary “LOL.” Looking for the Sublime? It’s in This Swiss Valley 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Howard’s lyrics, unfortunately, are not particularly eloquent or deft in either comic or somber mode. | 'Falling for Eve': Joe DiPietro?s Look at Eden by York Theater Company 2010-07-16T03:54:00Z I was the only one laughing during a somber afternoon showing of Woody Allen’s “Manhattan,” and in a midday crowd for a double feature of “Key Largo” and “The Big Sleep.” Film: Movie Love for Paris, City of Klieg Lights 2010-08-14T14:22:00Z Below Lorde’s somber voice and precise pop melodies, the tracks pulse with tension, like racing heartbeats behind a cool facade. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Of course they were tragic and much more somber, and they were there for the first responders, which is what the audience was made up of. Golden Globe noms an encore for Bon Jovi, Buscemi 2012-12-13T20:48:13Z Released five months after Curtis Mayfield’s “Superfly” album, “Trouble Man” shared the vocabulary of congas, wah-wah guitar, insistent horns and somber strings that would linger for decades in black music’s depiction of the drug underworld. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z The childhood world of fantasy takes a somber turn at the exhibition’s wailing wall. She Was No Bird: ‘Jane Eyre’ Manuscript on First Trip to America 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But first he delivers a witty, if somber message about our present. Warren Ellis' 'Normal' is a fast-paced dystopia about a burned-out futurist 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z More entertaining are the dozens of images of her rendered in every conceivable medium — as nail art and shoulder tattoos, as needlepoint samplers and bronze busts, as surrealist watercolors, deadpan cartoons and somber illustrations. Review: ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Another song about success, “Crown,” with Jay-Z joined by the Texan rapper Travis Scott, moves on somber chords and an oozing Southern hip-hop beat as anxiety — “best friends become ya enemies” — takes over from bragging. Music Review: Jay-Z Frets on ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ 2013-07-04T22:31:32Z The delicate balance needed to build a vibrant theater complex next to a somber memorial will be reflected in the unusual exterior of the cube-shaped 90,000-square-foot building. Arts Center at Ground Zero Has a New Design, and Barbra Streisand in Charge 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z He added that he thought it would be tricky to create a musical with an equally somber storyline but figured that a poetic approach, like that of the plays, might do the trick. Music and poetry leaven a heavy subject 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Beyond this cocktail corridor are three somber dining areas where tables, like the servers, wear black. Welcome new steakhouse kid on the downtown block: Sullivan's 2011-05-26T20:17:49Z The Allegro main section was urgent yet somber, restrained just enough to enhance the music’s depth. Music Review: David Zinman Leads Philharmonic in Mendelssohn and Mozart 2013-12-06T22:21:02Z His voice was low, meaty, resonant; his mood was somber. Kane Brown Reaches to Reconcile Two Sides in His Sound 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z In the first movement, passages of grim turmoil in this elusive piece are balanced by elements of regal elegance and somber restraint. Review: Stately Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, a Brave Danish String Quartet 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z But regardless of Vance’s personal experiences and politics, the success of his book established a uniform — and lamentable — tone for how the region is written about: dry, somber, earnest, wonkish. Is there a cure for Rust Belt rhetoric? This witty little novel might be a start. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Beginning with his somber 1955 album of torch songs, “In the Wee Small Hours,” which some believe to be the greatest pop album ever made, Sinatra gave men license to cry without shame. Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z While never entirely misplacing a sense of humor, his novels have grown progressively darker over the years — as “The Abstinence Teacher” and “Little Children” attest — and this one is certainly the most somber yet. Books of The Times: ?The Leftovers? by Tom Perrotta - Review 2011-08-24T22:00:16Z The record is somber and mature — thick with devotional ballads but lacking the call-and-response doodles and improvisational crosstalk that have long defined the band’s live shows. Review | Dave Matthews Band outlasts the rain at Jiffy Lube Live 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z A video of him dancing to "The Swan" - with none other than cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing the slow and somber Camille Saint-Saens music - went viral. Review: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma, 'jookin" together 2013-04-04T00:59:08Z Neither slap-happy comedy nor aggressive action fare, The Beaver is a somber, sad domestic drama featuring an alcoholic in acute crisis. The Beaver: Can You Forgive Him? 2011-05-04T18:10:00Z But the area's mood remained somber compared with its bustling pre-war gaiety. In the rubble, Aleppo's citizens work to save battered heritage 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Tilt Brass, an ensemble that upholds a new-music tradition of radical politics, joined him with somber staggered chords, by turns churchy and regal. KIMIKO ISHIZAKA 2012-09-25T21:53:52Z Included are several haunting paintings of Holocaust victims, derived in part from photographs, and a somber print made in response to the 2018 assault on Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. Review | In the galleries: Simulated stone and neon artworks reflect the transience of life 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z At the evening’s end, a more somber and resolute unity recurred as the dance motif for the title song, which marries the velvety smoothness of soul to a cry against brutality. “What’s Going On”: Dance tribute to Marvin Gaye offers comfort and defiance 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Backing himself on guitar and loops with another guitarist offering delicate melodic runs, Sumney performed surprisingly somber and untethered songs, something he noted after a performance of his "Insular Peninsula." Moses Sumney, Lucinda Williams hit the pier at Way Over Yonder fest 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z This made it rather difficult to reach a suitably somber state of mind for the play’s denouement, when that gorgeous snowstorm sweeps in, bringing with it the ultimate big chill. | 'John Gabriel Borkman': Ibsen?s Big Chill, With Soul Mates Frozen in Time 2011-01-14T03:01:01Z But the visit isn’t just a friendly attempt to reconnect: the amiable demeanor of the gay, heavily tattooed Frank hides a more somber purpose. Theater Review: ‘The Great God Pan,’ by Amy Herzog, at Playwrights Horizons 2012-12-19T03:00:00Z Beginning with Mr. Miller’s comics and culminating with Christopher Nolan’s multibillion-dollar “Dark Knight” movie franchise, this somber Batman became the character’s definitive incarnation. ‘Dark Knight III: The Master Race’ Comic Book Prompts Reflection and a Look Ahead 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Things turn chaotic when word comes down: Because of time constraints, the somber drama in which she is to star will not play back to back, but simultaneously, with a troupe of clowns. Review: A Soprano’s Sound Floods the Met in ‘Ariadne’ 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z To call “Follies” a funeral for the old-fashioned musical is perhaps too somber. | 'Follies': Broadway Babies? Glory Days 2011-05-23T02:01:05Z Did you think this was going to be an entirely somber hour of television dealing with the aftermath of the death of Shauna’s child in the woods? ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap: Punch-Drunk 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Theodorakis’ prolific career that started at age 17 produced a hugely varied body of work that ranged from somber symphonies to popular television and the film scores for “Serpico” and “Zorba the Greek.” Greek music great Mikis Theodorakis dies at 96 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The play’s final, more somber notes land with surprising force, but the path from comedy to something closer to tragedy gets a bit rocky at times. | 'Wittenberg': Dueling Mentors Bedevil a Dithering Young Dane 2011-03-30T22:00:46Z Inside, the cathedral is brooding and somber, more Dark Ages than medieval. A Perfume Devotee in the Land of French Fragrance 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z And that could be because “Skins” has a somber, cautionary message behind all the teenage debauchery. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: 'Skins,' Sex and Foreign Affairs 2011-02-01T21:07:39Z The original memorial includes 2,711 concrete slabs of varying heights, arranged in a grid pattern, that serves as a somber reminder of the six million Jews who were killed by the Nazis. German artists build Holocaust memorial near far-right leader's home 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z I particularly liked “The Eye,” as well as his somber “The Raven,” 2010 works that were two of Sabavala’s final pieces. Mumbai, a City Both Uplifting and Heartbreaking 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Dutoit devoted the second half of the program to Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, a somber, at times ferociously angry work, composed shortly after Stalin’s death yet clearly still under the shadow of his tyranny. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-26T23:41:47Z After using Bruce Springsteen last year to open the show with a somber, uplifting rock number, “We Take Care of Our Own,” producers this year decided to play dress-up with Taylor Swift. Grammy Awards: Fun. takes song of the year; Frank Ocean, Adele win 2013-02-11T03:02:00Z But once the recording begins, the hypnotic power of Mr. Cave’s recent songs and the charisma of his somber persona kick in, and the camera moves in time with the music. Review: ‘One More Time With Feeling’ Listens to Nick Cave’s Darkness 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z This oddball monologue moves from somber to superficial as quickly as it does from high to lowbrow. Critic’s Notebook: Julie Klausner’s Podcast, ‘How Was Your Week?’ 2012-12-31T23:26:34Z The new story moves along at a more even pace and with a more somber tone, and doesn’t get beyond the easy clichés of the genres it ventures into. Television Review: ‘American Horror Story’ on FX Begins Second Season 2012-10-16T23:27:18Z The beauty of DiCamillo’s text is that it is equal parts somber and silly, its undercurrent of grief balanced by fantastical absurdities. ‘The Magician’s Elephant’ Review: The Promise of a Pachyderm 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Behind the playful exterior of her work, Ms. Neuenschwander says, there often lurks something “more somber and serious,” even dark. Rivane Neuenschwander?s Playful but Serious Art 2010-06-21T22:49:00Z It was the first "active plot" timed to coincide with the somber commemoration of the terror group's Sept. 'No credible threat to Chicago' 2011-09-09T07:40:00Z “I was getting dressed this afternoon and I thought, ‘He might try some shenanigans and it might be fitting to tell jokes while wearing something somber if he goes down that dark path.’ Stephen Colbert briefly breaks down, says Trump’s claims of fraud ‘cast a dark shadow on our most sacred right’ 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Made largely in a language of darkness and light, it catches the somber mood of the time. At ‘Greater New York,’ Rising Art Stars Meet the Old School 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z But these two elements of “Frozen” — the somber and the silly — are not blending, visually, musically or emotionally. Review: ‘Frozen’ Hits Broadway With a Little Magic and Some Icy Patches 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z In preparing the concerto’s somber opening notes, he said, he imagines the “angel of death” or cloaked figures singing a Gregorian chant, following his teacher’s advice. A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The show opened with a somber tribute to the victims of the shooting and the hurricanes in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, but no one went full Dixie Chick, or even mildly Meryl Streep. 10 Cultural Battles That Ruled 2017 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The weaving is a somber work in beige, black and gray, with ghostly traces that recall architectural forms of the ancient civilization. Review | Don’t know the work of Anni Albers? This gifted artist is finally getting her due. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Deliberately drab colors, like mustard, and geometric prints touching on the Prada ugly aesthetic made for a somber collection. The Death of the Dress? 2012-09-10T17:21:07Z At their foundation, many of Andrew’s works are paintings: pastel, Expressionist-inspired depictions of somber figures. These artists make online disinformation into art. Or is it the other way around? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z In the last movement, Rachmaninoff tries to get a hold of himself and fails, returning to his somber opening. Gidon Kremer shares a performance of a lifetime 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z “There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans,” Einstein wrote. Albert Einstein’s profound observations on entrenched racism in America 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Ingmar Bergman's somber medieval miracle play The Seventh Seal is "an utterly foreign flick and staple of 'college days'." Zag-At the Movies: "Real People" Pick Their "Best Films" 2010-10-21T16:10:00Z He dressed Hamilton, the ambitious immigrant, in the neutral tones that yielded to more ornate looks after his successes in battle and politics and that ended in the somber, dark hues of tragedy. 'Hamilton' costume designer on how he streamlined 18th century looks for a 21st century show 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z “The Gabriels” is launched in a period of mourning, but it’s by no means somber. The Kennedy Center sets an inviting table for ‘The Gabriels’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Ben, your novel is funny, and Kevin, yours is far more somber. Q. and A.: Kevin Powers and Ben Fountain, National Book Award Nominees 2012-11-13T17:21:36Z Everyone else is in somber grey and white, devoting themselves to drabness as much as the cause. Downton Abbey Watch: House of Despair 2012-01-30T13:30:25Z Other works are more lyrical, with plaintive, folk-tinged vocal lines stretched over somber, spare accompaniments. Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs Meredith Monk’s Instrumental ‘Backlight’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Her intricate cuts and somber lyricism appeal to private clients, notably Lady Gaga, who helped to cinch the designer’s reputation by wearing Ms. LaPointe’s creations on her music videos and at public appearances. FITTINGS: Countdown to Fashion Week: Thank the Deli for That Dress 2013-08-21T18:17:47Z In the 1960s, students had “a beatnik urban sophistication, carrying big book bags, very somber and intense. ” Alice Waters got us to eat healthy. What more can she teach us in her new book? 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z While the album starts with its thumping, upbeat songs, the concert took its time, starting with folky acoustic ballads, a somber hymn and Steve Reich Minimalist patterns. Music Review: Two Bands Ascending to Falsetto: A-ha and Jonsi 2010-05-09T22:35:00Z The vigorous opening began with skittish rhythmic bursts and figures that segued into a somber, choralelike passage, music that in this performance seemed harmonically elusive and eerie. At Carnegie Hall Opening, Delving Into Levity’s Layers 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z They subtly nail the somber, meditative passages of its first and third movements and are equally adept at the folk-flavored dance rhythms of the second and fourth movements. Icicle Creek Piano Trio gives free CD-release concert at Town Hall 2011-03-03T20:37:03Z With somber lighting and music, a dark mood persists throughout the film, heavily differentiating it from typical DC or Marvel superhero movies. Villain in Venice: Joaquin Phoenix goes from tragic to comic in... 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z The book is full of such tidbits, while also delivering a somber look at Fisher’s final days. Review | A new biography dishes about Carrie Fisher’s tumultuous, bittersweet life 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The most arresting and emotionally resonant work came first, “Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven,” Dove’s prayerlike ballet for six dancers, to Arvo Pärt’s spacious and somber “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten.” Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet Finally Makes It Back to New York 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Despite the flash of humor when Bill lost patience with the lawyer, his thread was notably, almost comically somber, right down to the cello leitmotif that accompanied it. 'True Blood' Recap: The Sickness and the Cure 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Crossing the street, you cross into the next era of Thessaloniki history at the Museum of Byzantine Culture, a modernist Le Corbusier-inspired building where long ramps slope upward through dark galleries of somber Christian creations. 36 Hours in Thessaloniki 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Immersed in Anger and Smothered by Loneliness Thematically somber but visually luminous, “Dissolution,” the remarkable new work from the Israeli-American filmmaker Nina Menkes, explores a soul stained by blood and smothered by loneliness. Movie Review: ?Dissolution,? a Film Set in Israel by Nina Menkes 2012-03-09T00:49:35Z "It is nihilistic because life is nihilistic," said Satrapi of the movie's more somber moments. Death in Venice as films set in Iran, Greece impress 2011-09-03T15:46:26Z His solo on the opening “Change of the Guard” — also the opener of his debut release, “The Epic” — began in somber, understated tones. An emotionally charged performance from Kamasi Washington 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Which is not to say that Nicole and Charlie are confined to the shabby, somber stagecraft that so often passes for realism. ‘Marriage Story’ Review: Dance Me to the End of Love 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The middle movement is a frenetic, biting scherzo; the finale, a purposeful, somber passacaglia. National Youth Orchestra Flexes Its Muscles at Carnegie Hall 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z So that's why we went with a little more somber look and some subtle tones in the pinks and blues, things like that. "Totally Killer" costumer on Molly Ringwald vibes and making '80s ensembles worthy of being stabbed 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z And in a more somber way, he said he felt a stronger connection to his French character the day of the Paris attacks. Hamilton’s Daveed Diggs Can’t Believe His Own Story 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z 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. | ?Restless': ?Restless? With Mia Wasikowska - Review 2011-09-15T23:00:10Z We winced, marveled, cringed, laughed, became somber, and cheered when Django rescued his wife and took his ultimate revenge. It’s not easy being a black Tarantino fan: He wants to be treated like a black filmmaker — and doesn’t get why that’s impossible 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Even on the day of the ballet’s premiere, Peck is somber and alone, worlds away from the makeup-and-gel routines of his fellow dancers. ‘Ballet 422’: A young choreographer’s nervous rise at New York City Ballet 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z But a somber tone also infused the ceremony in the aftermath of the events at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., earlier in the day. ‘Hamilton’ wins 11 Tony Awards, missing record but making Broadway history 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z There's no weird campaigning or somber odes to those who've died, just the best viral magic in each winner's respective field. Salon's Academy Awards of Viral Video 2011-02-25T20:30:00Z Chiaroscuro, velvet and leather, and a color palette befitting Rembrandt's most somber canvases combine in a way that is tastefully enveloping rather than claustrophobic. Dutch Treat: Amsterdam's Canal House hotel 2011-08-11T13:55:00Z BARNSTABLE, Mass. — Country singer Taylor Swift joined several members of the Kennedy clan, including boyfriend Conor Kennedy, in a somber weekend visit to the grave of his mother on Cape Cod. Taylor Swift, Conor Kennedy visit his mom's grave 2012-08-21T15:55:14Z In the grave introduction to the first movement he played with somber restraint and deep, rich sound. Music Review: Cyprien Katsaris at the International Keyboard Festival 2012-07-17T22:20:52Z The symphony begins with large, heavy chords and somber, dark melodic ideas. Hurricane Mama's impressive set of pipes 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z “Ghosteen” is an eerie, somber monolith, a set of 11 songs that stretches over an hour and is grouped on two CDs. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z “It’s very emotional this movie, it’s very raw, it’s very authentic,” an unusually somber and admittedly nervous Hilton told a TV critics meeting on Saturday. Paris Hilton reveals private side in upcoming documentary 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z He is somber in photographs but otherwise has the presence of that lighthearted Methodist minister who lives out on the family’s old place, just outside of town. After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The playfulness of the work isn't at odds with its somber depth. In powerful 'Into the Woods,' joy and sorrow are like old pals 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Two light-hearted stories were among the favourites, unusual for Cannes where somber, downbeat films tend to dominate. Tough choice for jury as Cannes curtain comes down 2011-05-22T16:15:01Z He loves nothing more than throwing restraint to the winds, and this was, by those standards, a somber parade; revelation by a thousand cuts. Sex, Saint Laurent and a Mutiny 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Breaking up more somber moments are two festive interludes, a School of Hard Knocks award ceremony and graduation, celebrating members of Chuma’s wide-reaching artistic circle. Review: Ambition and Audacity From the School of Hard Knocks 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z It is difficult to say at which point during my visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum I went from somber to irritated. What the 9/11 museum could learn from two Latin American memorials 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Album centerpiece “Grief and Praise,” meanwhile, finds comfort in closing a chapter, in the guise of a somber, hymn-folk atmosphere. An artist on his own terms: Glen Phillips did that whole Top 40 thing, now he just wants to help 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z The exhibition’s last two items bring the show to a somber close with symbols of death and destruction. ‘A Brief History’ Depicts City’s Story at Historical Society 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z While Weatherford’s paintings often feature swirls of color, the Marsyas works — on view through Nov. 27 — are shadowy and somber, with dominant tones of black, gray, violet and silver. Mary Weatherford Brings ‘Horror and Beauty’ to Venice 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z But somehow the word “pilgrim” still brings to mind elementary school Thanksgiving craft projects involving big-buckled, somber Puritans rendered in black-and-white construction paper sharing a big turkey feast with Indians wearing feathery headdresses. In Plymouth, Mass., the Thanksgiving story takes on a new reality 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “A Thousand Tongues” is a somber setting of a five-line poem by Stephen Crane. Review: Missy Mazzoli’s Unsettling ‘Vespers for a New Dark Age’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z But sincerity requires more than puppy-dog eyes and a somber tone of voice. Should We Lie to My Parents? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Barely veiled by the somber setting, a marriage of Neolithic skeletons and contemporary fabrics by way of riffs on medieval armor, is a dully rote telling of this ambiguous story. Review: A Conductor Sets Munich’s Ashen ‘Parsifal’ Aflame 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z The series finale, however, is decidedly more somber. The final season of "Shrill" unpacks internalized fatphobia and the "smaller body, bigger life" myth 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Levit’s performance was more somber than violent, more questing than defiant. Music Review: An Intimate Entree, Escorted by Beethoven 2014-03-13T22:21:16Z Yet the competitions, including the season championship, aren’t terribly dramatic, except for the somber moments when paramedics have to be called into the ring. Review: Netflix’s ‘Fearless’ Explores the World’s ‘Most Dangerous Sport’ 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The late 1960s bring more somber, socially conscious material, and by the end of the box Mr. Johnson is in deep funk. A Big Box for an Overlooked R&B Career 2010-12-02T23:24:00Z But not every event was to be somber. Fans in NY, LA, elsewhere remember Michael Jackson 2010-06-25T11:30:00Z The film is not somber, but it's definitely not playing for laughs. For Glen Hansard, opportunity knocks more than once 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z There was nothing to glorify the Soviets in this somber, bitter opera, and Weinberg, a Polish Jew who fled to Russia in 1939, was never beloved by the state. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z All she has is forward momentum, her unbending will and the small, somber boy at her side. ‘A Thousand and One’ Review: A New York Love Story 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Rapper J. Cole released a new track with a somber tone today, sharing his reactions to the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Listen to the Emotional New Song J. Cole Released in Response to the Michael Brown Shooting 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The pals are seen mixing work with Rodeo Drive shopping sprees and club-hopping, not somber discussions about whether Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Iranian-Americans get the reality TV treatment 2012-03-10T18:31:05Z As Zhenia becomes a community fixture, the lives of his alienated clients unfold in a series of vignettes, at turns bleakly somber, but also cheeky. ‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ Review: You’re Getting Warmer 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z In support, Jean-Marc Barr provides a lively, welcome distraction to the mostly somber couple as a man who embraces life and even a little danger. In the haunting "Silent Land," a couple's seaside stay in Italy plunges toward a moral implosion 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Progressing with somber uncertainty but unfailing nobility, it’s a strong piece. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Interestingly, the film is shaggy, not somber, full of diverting moments and interesting scenes that reveal much about male pain, regret, fear, and failure. In "Raymond & Ray," adult sons must bury their well-liked dad who was "inarguably a monster" to them 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z When you think of Spike Lee as a director of documentaries, you probably think of “4 Little Girls” and “When the Levees Broke,” his somber, anguished accounts of assaults on black communities. Review: Michael Jackson, Before He Was King 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Looking like a somber, scruffy monk in training, Mr. Trifonov played with a focus and concentration that radiated throughout the hall. Two Pianists Test the Meaning of Virtuosity 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Rather, it was an somber acknowledgment that the invasion was a shattering event with implications that members of Congress were only beginning to understand. Perspective | Nancy Pelosi held it together 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The best numbers, curiously, aren’t the perky, twinkly ones, which bring to mind background music for sentimental ad campaigns, but the more somber solos. | 'I'll Be Damned': At the Vineyard, a Musical With a Devil?s Bargain 2010-07-12T21:42:00Z Then Mr. Bey brought it all back to Beethoven, rapping over the somber Allegretto from the Seventh Symphony before launching into the exuberant hip-hop track “Casa Bey.” Music Review: Brooklyn Philharmonic Sets Out on Ambitious New Programs 2012-06-10T21:54:10Z You might think that the summer dress-shirt code would banish dark colors and somber plaids. Manning Up in the Heat 2013-07-24T21:14:00Z A relentlessly somber, precision-tooled picture whose frights only reinforce the wit of its premise, “Smile” turns our most recognizable sign of pleasure into a terrifying rictus of pain. ‘Smile’ Review: Grab and Grin 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z In the 1960s and ’70s, she often worked in a somber monochrome, painting images she clipped from newspapers, often focused on military themes or destruction. Perspective | Some of the most substantial and rewarding art of the last half-century 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “Widows” is a heist movie in a somber mood, a thriller not entirely comfortable with thrills. ‘Widows’ Review: Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The prelude to the second act mingled lyrical expansion, somber brasses and a strangled stutter in the cellos; the Chicago winds these days combine artfully, their variety of textures united by their shared phrasing. Review: Before Riccardo Muti Leaves Chicago, a Verdi Farewell 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z It is both a peppy celebration of can-do spirit and a more somber exploration of what American servicemen experienced when they marched home from World War II. Review: Singing and Dancing the Postwar Blues in ‘Bandstand’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Lieber, in contrast to Ms. Garfield, is somber, in control. Review: In ‘Pow,’ Keely Garfield Combines Tough and Awkward 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z The other tends to be a somber downer. Pulling punches: why origin stories keep superhero films from soaring 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Its first movement, “A Sense of History,” gleamed with horns and harps; soft, swelling strings; and curlicue flutes, before tightening into a more pugilistic mode, rumbling to a climax and resolving into somber shimmers. Review | Lang Lang and the NSO delight a comeback crowd at the Kennedy Center 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z In a new show at Art + Practice in Leimert Park, artist Alex Da Corte takes the bright, commercial tropes of Pop art but uses them as a way of expressing more somber narratives. Essential Arts & Culture: The theatricality of the Olympics, Wall Street on stage, a Luis Buñuel opera 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z “I saw a great many soldiers’ graves with their bones all bare,” wrote Daniel Underhill in another, far more somber account of Army life. Review: ‘Personal Correspondents: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn’ 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The ceremony, already a somber event because many of the recipients recently passed away or weren't healthy enough to attend, was further marred when those in attendance learned Whitney Houston died Saturday afternoon. Diana Ross, Steve Jobs honored at Grammy ceremony 2012-02-12T20:29:08Z When we came back on Thursday, the audience was so somber. Maryann Plunkett Says Goodbye to Her Lives in Rhinebeck 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z We are instructed to remove anything metal and dispose of our beverages, but leave our shoes on — a somber reminder of what happened here. Atop New York’s One World Trade Center, a rush of hope and memories 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Their 1985 collaboration, “Camera Obscura,” brought in more percussion, but was no less somber. Critic’s Notebook: Two John Cale Programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-20T23:06:32Z Mr. Sherman acknowledges those somber elements but foregrounds his story with brighter hues in a more impressionistic style. Review: Finding the Beat and Pulse of the Great Migration 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Times critic Charles McNulty wrote: “ ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ shifts rapidly from laughter to fury to sorrow to somber acceptance. Tony nominations: Laurie Metcalf saw 'the humor that was on the page' in a 'A Doll's House, Part 2' 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z To switch from different types of funny to the somber spectrum is a lot to ask. Television Review: ‘Go On,’ With Matthew Perry, on NBC 2012-09-10T21:51:57Z This captivating movie, like the blues itself, is at once a recognition of those somber truths and a gesture of protest against them. Review: In ‘Two Trains Runnin’,’ the Convergence of Idealism, Brutality and Artistic Genius 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The bankruptcy of this sort of coverage was exposed on Tuesday morning, when the Jan. 6 commission kicked off with somber, powerful, pointedly nonpolitical testimony from four police officers who were attacked during the insurrection. Perspective | Our democracy is under attack. Washington journalists must stop covering it like politics as usual. 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z A visit to the lobby of the Hyatt Regency serves as a somber reminder that presidential campaigning can go wrong. 36 Hours in Milwaukee 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Most are untitled and painted in fairly somber tones on canvases pieced together from crisp pieces of awning fabrics, printed with either striped or floral patterns. Albert Oehlen: ‘Fabric Paintings’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Barbara says she misses humor in these somber days, and thinks it might be a good idea if they started telling one another jokes. Review: A Family Gropes for Words in ‘Incidental Moments’ 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z And though no dogs were harmed in the making of this show, there are canine casualties and somber existential musings from the four-legged friends. ‘Space Dogs’ Review: To Boldly Go Where No Dog Has Gone Before 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z The Grammy-winning “Tighten Up” was adored by the crowd, but hands down the most beautiful audience moment was during the somber “Little Black Submarines.” Review: The Black Keys’ Tacoma Dome show proves arena tours don’t need to be flashy to be exciting 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z The slow second movement begins with a somber, choralelike melody for strings alone, which the Philharmonic played with hushed richness. Music Review: Lang Lang?s Bartok With the New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-19T23:29:36Z Humans can be ridiculous even in the most somber circumstances, but the attempts at comedy undermine the emotion. ‘The Brightest Thing in the World’ Review: Falling in Love, While Loving Heroin 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Although it’s not as somber or gory as the network’s best-known series, “Turn” shares the essential DNA of an AMC show. With ‘Turn,’ AMC goes from meth and zombies to 1776 spies 2014-04-02T23:42:25Z The alluring countertenor Tim Mead was consistently excellent, especially his somber account of the aching aria “He Was Despised.” Review: Jane Glover Conducts the New York Philharmonic in ‘Messiah’ 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The videos’ somber voice-overs do a lot to set the tone. Wong Ping’s Candy-Colored, Taboo-Smashing World 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Movies about American history tend to be somber, responsible and pious, even as the history itself is completely crazy — violent, tragic, ridiculous and contradictory. A. O. Scott’s Top Movies of 2013 2013-12-11T15:00:05Z The work begins with very somber piano, joined by a foreboding violin line, which hangs up trill ornaments like omens of uncertainty. Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival presents concert of darkness, light 2011-07-28T19:25:04Z Wallace is somber telling the stories, displaying family snapshots and details culled from interviews with family and friends about what made each person unique. A year into pandemic, some in media tell individual stories 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z A very clear example comes in that somber chant of the monks, heard at the beginning of Act II and recalled in the last act. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Quivering with fear and rage in the title role, the soprano Brenda Rae acts and sounds girlish but somber, innocent but wounded. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Here, the flowers are more than beautiful patches of brightness enlivening a somber landscape: They’re pioneers in a slowly recovering ecosystem. Take a wildflower hike among the volcanic St. Helens landscape 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z But this show of new work, a rumination on systemic racism and violence, evokes a much more somber tone. At These American Museums, You Can Travel the World 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The piece was somber, but also an unmistakable call to arms. Wadada Leo Smith’s jazz is demanding, but emotionally cathartic 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z And they altered their playlists to reflect the somber mood. Radio D.J.s Offer Comfort and Community After Charleston Church Killings 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z And with “Bombshell,” Cocker and Gonzales re-create Jean Harlow’s portentous honeymoon, beginning with the sound of leaky bathtub spigot, followed by a somber drip-drop piano melody. Perspective | A hotel room more interesting than the cosmos: In praise of the downsized concept album 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z A former administrative judge who at some point in the past traded his gavel for a badge and a gun, he stands out as a somber and aloof figure among his colleagues. Movie Review: Claude Sautet’s ‘Max et les Ferrailleurs’ 2012-08-10T04:20:08Z The final episode is the series' most somber, focusing solely on the plight of Korey, played by Jerome through the entire series. "When They See Us" demands we see the boys damaged by the Central Park jogger case 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Heartthrob invokes somber, marble notebook dumps as truthfully as it portrays its lustier foil. Tegan and Sara Bring Pop—and Heart, Of Course—to Heartthrob 2013-02-01T15:00:03Z But there is also a somber scene of an emotionally exhausted Sandra crying on a bus ride. In "One Fine Morning" Léa Seydoux experiences the exquisite heartbreak and passion of everyday life 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z With its somber lighting and music, the exhibition almost commands reverence; we are in the company of the dead, after all. Unraveling the Mystery of Who Lies Beneath the Cloth 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z If they're stirring ancient ingredients like frankincense and honey and almonds for one of the holiday flavors, the backdrop may be the somber, runic ballads of a Danish singer named Agnes Obel. Who's rocking to the music? That's the chef 2012-04-26T04:30:48Z The world of the 1950s is a somber swirl of cigarette smoke and dark shadows, where people speak in whispered riddles, drink martinis and drive around in hulking automobiles. Review: ‘Wormwood’ Confirms That Errol Morris Is Our Great Cinematic Sleuth 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z But flash really isn’t the point, nor is partying, on the quartet’s most somber album. Album review: Red Hot Chili Peppers, 'I'm With You' 2011-08-26T16:04:00Z Whether the texts were somber or fanciful, poignant or impish, words came first. A Singer for Whom Words Always Came First 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z As one of them walks off with his horse, he is accompanied by the somber clip-clop of coconuts, which are operated by Fred Rose. Little Red Ridinghood of Korean-Finnish descent? Actress sees 'Woods' part as a 'huge victory' 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Sometimes called Laetare Sunday, this special day in the Lenten season celebrates feelings of joy amid the more somber moments of Lent. Fourth Sunday of Lent: Amid 'tragedy' of hopelessness today, reason to rejoice 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z A glittery assemblage of stars was on hand, along with company regulars, but the whole affair seemed slow-paced and somber. Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Theater Gala on Live HD Broadcast 2011-10-29T00:57:28Z “The Death of Rex Nhongo” paints a somber picture of the minor degradations and inarticulate sorrows of married life. An errant gun threatens many lives in ‘The Death of Rex Nhongo’ 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z You might need a special algorithm to keep track of all the intertwined stories in this latest entry in the “Babel”/“Crash” school of somber serendipity. Adam Sandler in Jason Reitman’s ‘Men, Women & Children’ 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z In “Pierrot,” a swift and somber look at longing that conjures the soulful clown, Mr. Weinert, dressed simply in a white shirt and beige pants, uses his spiraling body to convey conflicting emotions. Review: Adam H. Weinert’s ‘Monument’ at the 92nd Street Y 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z The scene was a somber counterpoint to the chaos and violent agony that had come before it, and Sapochnik wisely let the quietness build. ‘House of the Dragon’ Premiere: Another Game of Thrones 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Sheeran built most of the songs on instrumental tracks by Dessner: sparse piano or guitar chords leading to stately choruses, often burnished with somber string arrangements. Ed Sheeran Lets His Tears Flow on ‘-’ 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z At 32, Kid Cudi is older than the rest of Trillectro’s performers, but the occasionally somber Cleveland native earned his “Mr. Rager” moniker by embodying the festival’s approach before it even existed. At Trillectro, youth is not wasted 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Stylishly somber, "Maggie" has just enough grit and decay to make the most of its muted colors. 'Maggie' has the zombie look but a deadly slow pace Ms. Franklin opened the concert in magisterial yet low-key form, giving Leon Russell’s “A Song for You” the flickering rubato and somber purpose of an offertory. Global Flavors and Asides to Obamas at White House Jazz Gala 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Affleck, working almost exclusively with a gray palette of anguished reticence, conveys through deadened eyes and somber mien the intolerable burden of being Lee. Casey versus Denzel: Oscar's lead actor race is a dramatic study in contrasts 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z During the slow introduction he presented the somber theme in staggered phrases, with dramatically calculated pauses in between. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra Plays Tchaikovsky at Carnegie - Review 2011-10-11T20:45:23Z The scene signals the somber tone of “Palermo Palermo,” which is full of human suffering. Tanztheater Wuppertal Stages ‘Palermo’; Ratmansky Returns to Paris Opera 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The palace said the 95-year-old monarch will watch the somber ceremony at the Cenotaph memorial in central London from a balcony, as she has for several years. Palace: Queen Elizabeth II will attend remembrance service 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Under a dark, somber robe in the self-portrait, however, Ms. Amos is wearing a Wonder Woman costume. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z On Amy Bishop’s recent flight from Dallas to Louisville, a flight attendant made a somber announcement: Passengers should remain seated while the airline removed the casket of a fallen soldier. Perspective | Some flights have extra restrictions. Here’s what to do if you’re on one. 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Cerveris’s big number, “Little Island,” is a somber lament for the destruction of war, sung from the point of view of a 20th-centurty Englishman, that had little to do with the proceedings. ‘Randy Newman’s Faust,’ With the Composer On Hand 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z In the somber, steady opening piece, the choristers of one group beseech the daughters of Zion to join the lament. Review: An Intimate ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Has a Shattering Effect 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Brooklyn outfit Bear in Heaven has straddled spacey psychedelic rock and somber electronic pop over the course of four albums, complicating straightforward indie rock with samples and synthesizers. Your week in Seattle music: Boston, Coheed and Cambria and more 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z And when you experienced Jason Molina’s languid lyricism, you might’ve felt deep kinship through his beautifully somber dirges — but you were too busy crying to think, “I should write songs like this!” Sitting in front of David Berman's old apartment in the middle of the night 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The opening Nocturne was a profound reverie; the Scherzo movement rose to a triumphant, whirling finale, and the somber Passacaglia was profoundly affecting. At SSO, impassioned Shostakovich, ‘Become Ocean’ | Classical review 2013-06-21T17:00:44Z The brand “had a particularly interesting way of using powerful colors together,” Nigo said, which differed from the dark, somber, cool use of color dominating Japanese fashion at the time. The Designer Bringing a New Kind of Cool to Kenzo 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z If the Royal Ballet’s opening program was more somber than not, English National Ballet offered a contrastingly lightweight and upbeat program the evening before at Sadler’s Wells. On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z There were a lot of Broadway-esque original musical performances for Letterman over the past few weeks: Billy Crystal’s was somber, Nathan Lane’s was dark, but Marty Short’s jubilant funeral ode was probably our favorite. The 10 best Letterman guest farewells: “I say in truth, I love you” 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Contrasting these somber paintings are three larger, colorful ones that attempt to translate songs into gestures, made in response to an eclectic playlist. In the galleries: Personal and political perspectives on the past 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z They coexist in “The Bigger Picture,” Daisy Jacobs’s somber, witty study of two brothers squabbling and seething as they care for their dying mother. ‘Crisis Hotline,’ ‘La Parka,’ ‘Joanna’ and Other Short Oscar Nominees 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z For the eyes, some popular evening looks, like thick black eyeliner or a heavy shading, can appear too somber and pronounced onscreen. Time to Break Out the Lipstick 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Schumann songs made up the first half of the program: the somber “Poems of Queen Mary Stuart,” the cycle “Woman’s Love and Life,” and three from “Myrtles.” Music Review: A Mezzo Keeps It Simple, and Makes It Profound 2011-04-15T21:19:40Z The more somber theme of the novel is stated well into the book: "All history is the history of unintended consequences." 'Waiting for Sunrise' asks: What happened in pre-WWI Vienna? 2012-04-18T22:55:06Z The first season used a somber strings-and-choir piece over the opening titles. ‘The Leftovers’ Leads Television’s Musical Golden Age 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The somber designs contrasted with zebra print dresses worn over colorful long-sleeved tops in psychedelic prints. Miniskirts, power shoulders and top models for Versace Fall/Winter 2020 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z “It’s as if he finally realized how monumental this crisis is,” tweeted The Post’s White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, commenting on the president’s more somber public remarks. Perspective | Surrounded by experts, Trump still needed an intervention by Tucker Carlson to take coronavirus seriously 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z How I felt somber in a way I couldn't explain to my non-Jewish peers. Grieving together, and also apart: A Jewish American wrestles with identity, belonging and trauma 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z The somber stone walls of Le Murate, a former prison built in the 15th century, belie its current incarnation as a welcoming hub of contemporary culture. 36 Hours in Florence, Italy 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Whereas Mr. Woods still laughs at his own jokes, even when they fail, Mr. Chappelle has adopted a more somber tone. Dave Chappelle at Radio City Music Hall 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z But our thoughts needn't turn somber as the day's last rays give way to night. The World's Most Beautiful Sunsets 2010-06-18T19:00:00Z Jefferson demands after an especially somber episode in Hamilton’s family life, and it’s hard to keep from sharing his impatience. ‘Hamilton’ Review: You Say You Want a Revolution 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The untitled work is surreal and irreverent -- and certainly not in keeping with the more somber and shocking art being made about Kennedy's assassination in the immediate wake of his death. Object Lesson: John Altoon's Oswald spoof is very Internet 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z He sounded somber, and went on to explain that the kind of precancerous polyp he’d removed, and the place where he’d found it, were both indicative of a highly aggressive form of colon cancer. Saved by Obamacare 2014-04-16T23:00:00Z He was also inexplicably somber at times — like when he would watch documentaries in our darkened den on Sunday afternoons. Not exactly bedtime stories: My father, the Holocaust and a moment of bravery he’ll never forget 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z As an account of a coupling, it is sobering, opening with deliberate, somber violins over which a dissonant fog settles. Review: At the Philharmonic, Enveloping and Harrowing Sincerity 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Nor is the script able to comfortably fold its more somber subplots into the running, frantic story of the cooking contest. Review: In ‘The Hot Wing King,’ a New Recipe for a Family 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z The new film was billed as more somber in tone, more action-packed, with new characters. Disney's disjointed "Mulan" remake is obsessed with the concept of "ch'i" but can't find its own 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Filing outside the gym and peeling off their bandages from a hard day’s practice, the mood is more somber than the jovial atmosphere moments earlier when all the gymnasts were flying through the air. Pommel horses and protesters 2012-08-25T12:00:00Z A beacon of diversity, “Hamilton” was the right recipient of adulation on this somber night. What those 11 Tony Awards for 'Hamilton' mean for Broadway and the art of theater 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z The video starts with a number of somber train passengers, seemingly immigrants, listening to the radio. New ‘Hamilton Mixtape’ Music Video Takes Aim at Immigration 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z After a rollicking tune, Vereen transitioned to a somber song, which he performed while rubbing the makeup off his face. Inauguration performances weren’t always so contentious: Highlights from the last 75 years 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z To keep the outfit from going too somber, she made the silk lining a brilliant magenta, “so there’s a pop of color whenever she moves.” New Looks in ‘Frozen 2’ for Sisters on an Adventure 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Whether the songs are long marches, somber rituals, elegies or binges is never clear, and never has to be. Playlist: Younger Folk, Older Folk, Noises Tempered and Psychedelic 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z Then, something will happen in the orchestra -- a pungent harmony, a twitch of somber counterpoint -- and the violin responds with a wafting melodic line in its shimmering high range. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z Joyous and somber airs vie for the greater beauty. András Schiff and the L.A. Philharmonic join Haydn for a look at war 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z And “Man of War” envisions isolation and decay, framed by descending chords and a somber yet exhilarating crescendo. On ‘OK Computer,’ Radiohead Saw the Future: Ours 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Newman covered Fay for the soundtrack of “The Walking Dead,” while the electronic abstractionist Oneohtrix Point Never performed a prismatic interpretation of a somber “Life Is People” tune on tour. Bill Fay Was a Hidden Gem. One Musician Made Finding Him a Mission. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Forest Swords, the duo led by the English producer Matthew Barnes, kept its distance from pop; its somber, deliberate instrumentals wandered from the backbeat of dub reggae toward more exotic realms. Critic’s Notebook: South by Southwest Festival Starts to Feel Corporate 2014-03-16T22:44:49Z But the music is not nearly so somber. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z With music director Ludovic Morlot and the orchestra, “River of Deceit” never sounded sweeter, and time has made Cornell’s somber croon all the more haunting, knowing we’ll never hear him sing it again. You can’t go to live concerts. But you can listen to these 6 essential Seattle live albums 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The somber epilogue, in which the queen’s children receive a letter from her, explaining everything, is poignant and elegantly told. A Royal Affair: The Enlightenment Brings Sexy Back 2012-11-08T15:00:36Z In the course of her career, Ms. Johnson has found herself in dangerous and somber places, as a witness to some of the worst inhumanity of the recent past. Review: In ‘Cameraperson,’ a Found Poem Filtered Through an Intent Eye 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z There are plot twists, and then there is what Ms. Ferran does here, which is to transform — impetuously, improbably and altogether marvelously — this somber, realistic tale into something else entirely. In ‘Bird People,’ Two Unhappy Souls Cut Their Chains 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z From a comic romp set in the early 1960s to a somber look at our country’s politics, these titles speak volumes. 10 books to read in September 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Some of them will likely form the audience for “Death Becomes Her” at the Met, which promises to be stylish and somber at once. The Subject of Death Plays a Part in Popular Culture 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Her writing is characterized by a lightness that often belies its own heaviness, a silliness that can turn somber with the drop of a single phrase. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Oblique connections are the threads that hold this film together, as Mr. Lanthimos moves from one somber, deliberate scene to the next. Movie Review: ‘Alps,’ From Yorgos Lanthimos 2012-07-12T22:31:03Z They wore draped clothing in weighty fabrics with a satiny sheen, in a somber palette of khaki, navy, clay, beige, gray, green, and brown with sewn-on ornamentation—a stark contrast to their medicinal pink surroundings. Marc Jacobs’s pink fantasy world closes New York Fashion Week 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Many somber moments are in store for Robert De Niro and his jury. Movies: Cannes Festival Rolls Out a Very Red Carpet 2011-05-10T12:00:06Z He was the best, most enigmatic part of “Prisoners,” Mr. Villeneuve’s somber thriller from last fall, and he continues to refine his quiet, watchful presence into a powerful and idiosyncratic acting style. Movie Review: ‘Enemy’ Stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Twice 2014-03-13T23:11:40Z This somber drama, Billingham’s debut as a writer and director, is an extension of that work. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Elmo’s Playdate’ and ‘Fleabag’ 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Tinkler was somber in reflecting upon the intense days leading up to the decision to abbreviate her opening. It Was Their Big Debut. Then a Pandemic Hit. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z These grim circumstances provide the setting for “Of Gods and Men,” a beautiful, somber and rigorously intelligent new film by the French director Xavier Beauvois. | 'Of Gods and Men': Between Heaven and Earth 2011-02-24T22:55:48Z “Down and Out” is hilarious, with a humor quite unexpected in the otherwise seemingly somber Brother Blair. Alice Walker: By the Book 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z And that in doing so they’ve landed just on the wrong side of the line dividing a sober design from a somber one. Design for Obama library and museum off to surprisingly somber start 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Revolutionary citizens, a group that rapidly excluded women, dressed themselves in the unadorned, stripped down, markedly masculine and somber antecedents of today’s men’s suits. How white supremacist hatred drives acts of violence against powerful women 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Opera has an easier time going there; it’s difficult for a musical to pull off a somber ending — the upbeat finale that practically demands a standing ovation feels so much more typical for the form. Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z On Saturday, the museum will open an exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of Roosevelt’s signing of that document, a somber day known as the Day of Remembrance. Roosevelt's signed Executive Order 9066 on Japanese American internment to go on view in L.A. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z A more somber palette takes charge on the top floor, where dramatic, dark walls are matched with the Ginevra cocktail table topped in glossy Macassar ebony wood. Dom Pérignon takes over a London townhouse to showcase its new 2005 vintage 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The 43-year-old conductor captured the hushed eeriness of the work’s first few measures, in which the orchestra suggests the somber, mysterious mood that pervades the entire opera. Review: In ‘Pelléas,’ the Met Opera’s Music Director Takes Charge 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The repository of America’s 31st president is a somber tribute to both the humble beginnings of West Branch’s native son and his episodic career. Iowa’s Heartland Beyond the Campaign Trail 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z There were also somber songs about love and loss — and about the question of what success really means in the entertainment industry. The Meters’ Leo Nocentelli Gets a Solo Career, 50 Years Late 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z And images — a churning throng of visions, silly and somber, of a world in tumult — keep multiplying all around you, like some superbug breed of amoebae. Review: ‘Network’ With Bryan Cranston Is Convulsive, Immersive and Still Mad as Hell 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The movie never quite seems to balance its aspirations as a work of art, a gripping action spectacle and a somber teaching vehicle. The 10 Most Disappointing Movies of 2016 So Far 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z He employed a somber tone, but pulled no punches in criticizing America’s gun policies and systemic racism. Best of Late Night in 2021: Trump’s Never-Ending Swan Song 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z It was somber, thoughtful music, with a sense of concentration that hushed the audience. Music Review: A Malian Singer Sets Her West African Message to a Dance Beat 2011-07-31T22:06:14Z While some religious holidays are serious and somber, Purim isn’t. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z An hour later, Mr. Yazzie dropped me at my hotel, turning somber as he pointed out the window one last time. Photographer Edward S. Curtis’s Southwest 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, perhaps, most movies were of a somber, downbeat or outright depressing nature. Buzz in short supply at Cannes 2010-05-21T04:06:00Z Last year, because of pandemic crowd restrictions and protests of the song's racism, track bugler Steve Buttleman intoned the melody in a somber performance shorn of the controversial words. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The scene plays out against a chamber brass ensemble, in somber classical harmony — until the song swerves hard into guitar-driven incantation, accumulating layers in a proggish 7/8 meter. New Music: ?SuperHeavy,? With Mick Jagger, and ?Where Are the Arms? - Review 2011-09-19T22:39:18Z He was extremely versatile, able to write for stage and screen, for soundtracks ranging from Woody Allen comedies to a somber drama like Ordinary People. Marvin Hamlisch, composer for Broadway and cinema, dies 2012-08-07T15:25:25Z In the first gallery, three seemingly identical, heavily textured but nonetheless Photo Realist paintings all offer immense, grisaille renditions of a beat-up photograph of the artist as a somber young man. Validation successful. There was an error saving this asset. Please contact System Administrator. 2011-03-24T22:20:23Z Set atop a hill in the city that helped birth the civil rights movement, it is a somber pergola of hanging, coffinlike forms, each one representing the victims of lynchings in single county. Perspective | Best of museums 2018: It was a year to pay attention to new voices 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z And from the vantage point of musical theater, the WNO’s exceedingly somber “Lost in the Stars” comes across as more noble than compelling. ‘Lost in the Stars’ falls short as compelling musical drama 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z In her black costumes, she sang slow, weighty songs in somber minor keys, rearranged with a deep bass undertow. Review: Selena Gomez, a Disney Graduate, Majors in Angst Onstage 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The chorus was shining and superb, as was the Berlin Staatskapelle under Mr. Barenboim, aching and tortured in his slow, somber interpretation of the opening, then sinewy in the prelude to the third act. Review: A Present-Day ‘Parsifal’ With a Nod to the Past 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Always in a suit and tie, and always somber.” Roger Stone Rides Donald Trump’s Well-Tailored Coattails 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z “This is a sad and somber day for our school, our students and staff and the architecture community,” said Dan Schweiker, chairperson of the Board of Governors. Architecture school started by Frank Lloyd Wright to close 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Behind it, a somber mural depicted a gas mask-clad young man enveloped in a battle scene. Next Stop: Where Irish ‘Troubles’ Began, the Arts Heal 2012-11-16T16:29:12Z Carlile believes the album could trigger a reappraisal of Tucker’s career akin to the one Johnny Cash received after his somber recordings with Rick Rubin. Tanya Tucker Would Rather Be Celebrated While She’s Alive 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Confronted with a somber moment of great drama, they adopt a tone of voice that is neutral and dispassionate. Echoes of Willie McGee?s Execution, on NPR 2010-05-05T23:20:00Z “Drive” is somber, slick and earnest, and also a prisoner of its own emptiness, substituting moods for emotions and borrowed style for real audacity. | 'Drive': ?Drive,? With Ryan Gosling - Review 2011-09-15T22:55:25Z The current mood, he added, "is somber, mixed with genuine confusion." Paris Photo art fair shut down in wake of attacks. 'We will face the barbarians,' fair exec says 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z But it quickly takes a more somber turn. Movies: Cannes Festival Rolls Out a Very Red Carpet 2011-05-10T12:00:06Z Tweedy’s singing is somber and delicate, as though he were addressing snowflakes. Wilco has a stark message for fearful white America 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Capitol, offering somber monologues that pleaded for unity even as some aimed pointed barbs at those they held responsible for the mobs’ actions. Late night hosts react with shock, anger to Capitol attack 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Only the terminally somber will be able to suppress a chuckle at the antics of the Gigue in G, K 574. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z But Kranz's somber drama is a worthy entry into the genre. The heartrending "Mass" is a somber and intimate look at the survivors of a horrific crime 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z The palette is somber, the light is muted, but out of the darkness we see Pareja’s keen gaze. A Familiar Face at the Met, Now in His Own Light 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Two somber pages, in particular, resonate: Those of Dec. 2 and Dec. 9. Seven Comic Books for This Season (and the Next) 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z But he also turned his gaze inward with more somber, introspective works. John Olsen, Who Helped Revolutionize Australian Art, Dies at 95 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z He studied dozens of photographs and eventually settled on a somber, reflective pose. Aaron Shikler, Portrait Artist Known for Images of America’s Elite, Dies at 93 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z “Three Pianos” begins with the somber opening bars of “Gute Nacht,” the first song in the cycle, which quickly turns here into a rambunctious jazzy variation. Music Review | Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy and Dave Malloy: Updating a Schubert Cycle, at Ontological-Hysteric Theater 2010-03-17T22:50:00Z The performance captured the contrasting moods of the four movements: the perky “Barn Dance,” the somber “Fawn,” the jaunty “Grey Mouse” and the sly “Tomcats.” Music Review: Unusual Sounds to Play in a Park 2011-07-20T22:11:40Z The best characters in “The Americans” keep leaving for the Soviet Union: Martha, Oleg and now — after Tuesday night’s somber, moving episode, “Crossbreed” — Gabriel. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 6 Recap: ‘I’m Going Home’ 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The men’s coal-streaked faces were somber as they clutched their dust-smeared white overalls and sang the “Steigerlied,” the traditional miner’s song with origins in the 16th century, to a small, somewhat confused crowd of onlookers. Fashion Gets Down and Dirty 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Wilson’s usual signatures are here, including the somber subject matter related to Black disenfranchisement, prejudice, history and trauma — paired with witty, casual dialogue and flights into the surreal. ‘The Piano Lesson’ Review: August Wilson’s Phantom Notes 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The play doesn't build, dramatically or intellectually; it just keeps frenetically in motion, draining the more somber notes at the end of real pathos. 'The Why' revival at Blank Theatre sparks fresh questions 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s a tragic narrative, filled with calamities, yet never somber or dreary. Novels by Kathleen Alcott, Vu Tran and Alaa Al Aswany; a Memoir by David Payne 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z In each location, the hosts have serious, sometimes somber, conversations with activists, journalists or politicians, including Ted Cruz in a bit that went viral. A world of small-screen adventure: Here are the best travel TV shows for streaming 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z ‘A Touch of Sin’ Jia Zhangke’s angry, meticulous collection of violent vignettes paints a somber picture of modern China as a place of inequality, greed and indifference. A. O. Scott’s Top Movies of 2013 2013-12-11T15:00:05Z It’s a somber turn, yet rather than lingering solely on despair, Solnit pivots toward hope: “Someone tried to silence her. Then she gave me a platform for my voice.” Review | Rebecca Solnit, who inspired the term ‘mansplaining,’ explains herself (sort of) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Some entries in the 25th report strike a somber note: “Life has been in many ways harder than I thought it would be: anxieties about money and career, dark periods and wrong paths taken.” After Harvard, Dispatches of Adulthood 2012-04-13T22:21:53Z The somber colors of her ensemble coordinated with his. Perspective | Biden wore a mask. Trump did not. Now a single accessory can define the presidency. 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Fan favorites like an emotionally toiling “Grey Street” and a somber “Gravedigger,” which raised to a barrel-chested squall, were a few of the pre-encore highlights. Dave Matthews treats Seattle fans to intimate, invite-only Columbia City Theater show 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z “Taken at Midnight,” at the venerable Theater Royal Haymarket in the West End, is a stately, somber piece in which characters face off with raised chins and resonant declarations of principles. London Theater Journal: In the Shadow of the Nazis 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z It bears a rather more somber subtitle: “When Words Fail: 1492-Present.” Books of The Times: Simon Schama’s ‘The Story of the Jews’ 2014-03-10T20:50:31Z Quite Yet Inside “Late Bloomers,” a tonally wobbly romantic comedy about the indignities of aging, is a somber marital drama struggling to get out. Movie Review: ?Late Bloomers,? With William Hurt and Isabella Rossellini 2012-04-12T21:52:54Z And in some ways, precisely because it’s so overtly farcical, the play is even funnier now, even if it doesn’t sound its more somber notes as fully. Theater: New Casts Enliven ?God of Carnage? and ?39 Steps? 2010-04-16T23:59:00Z Sometimes somber, sometimes hopeful, Keene’s tunes ached with a mixture of nostalgia, wonder and vitality. Perspective | The bittersweet brilliance of Tommy Keene 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z The other black, somber note in this white world was my father’s pistol, which he brought forth from its holster sometimes after he had been drinking.” William Jay Smith, Poet and Craftsman of Rhythm, Dies at 97 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The somber orchestral music is thick with heaving strings and earthy thuds. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z She opened the performance by leading the room in a stretching exercise, then explained the story of the crash in a somber but welcoming tone. January in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z He, too, was as thorough and somber as the occasion required. Perspective | Liz Cheney understood the assignment 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z “Mushaboom” and “1234” brought her a measure of fame, but she returned this year with a somber, low-key album, “Metals,” and a determination to keep things loose rather than follow the industry-prescribed career path. Concert review: Feist at the Riviera 2011-11-05T05:45:00Z The Mediterranean sun shone for most of the Cannes Film Festival, but the mood at the world's premier cinema showcase was somber, with this edition's lineup dominated by movies about death and loss. Death and loss dominate dour Cannes fest 2010-05-24T11:30:00Z Even the festival’s more somber films have moments of joy and triumph. Children’s Film Festival Pushes Boundaries, Mixing Somber and Sweet 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z That murder ballad, for instance, was sung in unmistakably traditional style — somber and lingering — by Jarlath Henderson, who is from Northern Ireland. Review: Globalfest’s World Music for a Connected World 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z “The Umbrella Academy” actor Justin Min, also at the Newport festival, said “it’s been a very somber time” in recent days on set as he’s been filming the indie thriller “Detained.” Stars stunned by ‘mismanaged set’ in fatal prop-gun shooting 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z On a deeper level, it is what he had always known it could be, a Big Work – a masterpiece, in fact, that he has infused with the somber energy of a Greek tragedy.” “In Cold Blood” turns 50: Capote’s spellbinding true crime novel gave us “The Jinx,” “Serial” and “Making a Murderer” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z The new material — notably a somber, tolling piece called “Falls” and a hurtling anthem called “Chinchilla” — felt precisely dialed in to the personalities of the players. Review: Jim Black Trio at Le Poisson Rouge 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z But he professed his love for the city and said that “the entire ‘Wolf’ album is based in Seattle” — a bit of info that adds some context to the album’s somber tone. Tyler, the Creator’s profane, energetic, sold-out show at Neumos 2013-04-12T00:26:36Z In another series, “Souvenir,” the somber palette befits the content — the commemoration of black lives lost. Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Figuring History’ a powerful look at who is represented in art 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z His sunny face turned somber as he explained how infants born in the colony were taken away from parents immediately after birth for fear of contagion. The site of an 1860s leper colony on Molokai island draws determined travelers 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The channel, aimed at boys 6 to 14 and available in 80 million homes, has lacked a breakout hit, with the somber “Tron: Uprising” a particular disappointment. ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Emulates the Trilogy of Old 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In early March, as the crew finished filming the final episode, the first coronavirus cases began to pop up in the city, a somber fact that gets worked into the end of the season. John Wilson Reveals the Absurd Poetry of New York 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z A somber first movement, “Epitaphs,” gives way to the second and last, “Marches.” Music Review: The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-07-02T20:37:00Z They combine Rothko’s color at its winningest and most somber with the carefully modulated geometries of Ellsworth Kelly, but are always clearly handmade, painted with a meditative quality that evokes Morandi. Suzan Frecon: ‘Oil Paintings and Sun’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z One trademark of Mr. Fellner’s Beethoven is his light, crisp and measured touch, impressive in the concluding variations, which close on a somber note when the stately theme re-emerges. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z The encounter made for a slightly somber meditation on mortality as we resumed our crawl up into the mountainous areas. Forgoing Sunrise for Sunset on Maui’s Volcano 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The artist “restricts his palette to somber colors,” said Victoria Emily Jones, who blogs about Christianity and the arts at ArtandTheology.org. Searching for a Jesus Who Looks More Like Me 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z These early drawings are somber and almost crude, I decide, compared with Van Gogh’s masterful letter-writing skills. Where Van Gogh the pastor became Van Gogh the painter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z However, not all songs are somber and tug at the heartstrings. Review: British quartet Alt-J rides 'Wave' to US 2012-09-17T17:31:04Z It also has five Clementine Hunter originals, including one of her somber crucifixion scenes, featuring a dark-brown Jesus and a color field of brown-beige, beige-pink and somber blue. Looking for Clementine Hunter’s Louisiana 2013-06-14T20:04:57Z Inside the Pasadena museum, five men and one woman in somber, solid-colored clothing maneuver James McNeill Whistler's massive 1871 painting "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1" on a rolling wooden cart called an A-frame. At Norton Simon, a delicate 'Tete-a-Tete' with Whistler, other masters 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Even songs that start off in established Pearl Jam modes — the clawing guitar riffer, the steadfast march, the somber ballad — often open out in new ways. Pearl Jam and Green Day Are Still Going Strong. But Can They Evolve? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Soft lighting and somber music suggest that the subjects are suffering from a terminal illness — which I suppose is true, as aging eventually leads to death. The Art of Botox 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Though it captures the high spirits of the group’s eat-a-thons, it also tells the somber story of how Heller, in 1981, was felled by Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing and potentially fatal disorder. Books of The Times: The Catching of Two Joseph Hellers 2011-07-27T22:06:58Z Ethan Hawke, with somber countenance and a heavy mustache, plays Tesla as a restless soul burdened by genius and haunted by melancholy. ‘Tesla’ Review: Lightning Strikes, but Quietly 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z “Wakanda Forever” revolves around grief, loyalty, vengeance and territorial security, and its music — both the “inspired by” album and a separate “Original Score” album by Goransson — is largely somber, even ominous. ‘Wakanda Forever’ Forges International Alliances on a Somber Soundtrack 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z There is a humorlessness to the script, a lack of wit or substance, with fountains of blatant exposition and an unremittingly bleak and somber tone. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The White House Correspondents’ Association struggled to find the right tone, balancing edgy comics with somber lectures on journalism and democracy by the likes of Ron Chernow and Woodward and Bernstein. The golden age of the White House correspondents’ dinner (yes, there was one) 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Sex scenes and somber moments don’t exactly dominate Admission. Admission: Grating on a Curve 2013-03-21T14:00:45Z His somber face, the flat tone of his voice, the tears he daubed from his eyes, and his long, tormented pauses said as much as his heartfelt words. As Conn. story unfolds, media struggle with facts 2012-12-15T21:49:08Z Despite her china-doll prettiness, she has a deep voice and a somber mien that suits Sue’s brusqueness. ‘Phoenix,’ Starring Julia Stiles, at the Cherry Lane Theater 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The selection is a rather somber follow-up to last year’s choice — 😂 — an emoji shedding tears of joy that reflected people’s playfulness in embracing changing language more than their pains in weathering changing politics. Oxford's Word of the Year for 2016 Is 'Post-Truth' 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z In between the performances, video sequences show the women looking somber inside the rooms and stairwells of a different dilapidated building, presumably somewhere in Dublin where the play was first produced. Review: Beckett’s Absurdist House of Horrors, in Hell’s Kitchen 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. McCartney was basically dressed for the office in a somber black three-piece suit and open-collar shirt. Glyn Johns Doesn’t Get Why People Like His Look in ‘Get Back’ 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z It was somber, detailed and unflinching, with the strings as full participants. Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Something between a revue and a textbook chronology of Jewish history in New York, “Amerike,” directed by Bryna Wasserman, toggles between friendly gibes at American culture and somber accounts of past hardships. Review: Celebrating a ‘Golden Land’ With a Lot of Song and a Little Mugging 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Then he delivers his punch line in a far more somber tone: "And now, frankly, all I really want is health insurance." 'Last Exorcism' Review: 'Documentary' Plays with Doubt 2010-08-26T22:55:00Z The ensemble played it with a somber, coiled sound and magnificently detailed expression. Review: Orpheus’s Shifting Glimmers From Angled Glass 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Intense but restrained, stylishly somber in all black, this was a group no one would mistake for Prince’s. Music Review: The Songs Of Prince, Faithfully Reimagined 2011-06-16T22:08:15Z He penned a wide range of work, from somber symphonies to popular TV and film scores, including for “Serpico” and “Zorba the Greek.” Thousands gather for Crete burial of composer Theodorakis 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Mozart also composed a few original fugues, like the somber K. 546, which received a soulful and suitably dark-hued rendition here. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-06T00:35:05Z Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is somber and slow. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House 2012-02-07T09:59:35Z The work is alternately playful and somber, with a firm grounding in the austere medieval troubadour and plainsong traditions. Music Review: Stockhausen’s ‘Freude,’ by Chamber Music Society 2012-10-19T23:32:59Z That extended staring in stillness, with baleful or at least somber faces, is something they’ve done many times before in this 80-minute work, usually in silence. Two Ways of Looking at Cuba’s Modern Dance Problem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Wright is the film’s easy standout: Her story as the addicted mother is one whose details we never really know but can intuit through somber, silent moments in her darkened home. ‘Devil’s Peak’ Review: The Curse of a Family Name 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The music then became more somber, like a desperate plea to a jittery colleague. Review: Axiom Displays Its New-Music Range at Alice Tully Hall 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z The sermon Dr. King gave the night before he died was somber and cautionary but also gave reason for hope. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The overture begins with a somber yet stately introduction and segues into a rhythmically jagged allegro section full of spiraling triplet flourishes. Review: The English Concert Brings a Marvelous ‘Semele’ 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Slow, somber and often elegant, “Hao” thematically foregrounds language. Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z In all, the film contributes to the distinctly somber mood of pictures like “Moneyball,” about the statistical demystification of baseball, and “The Descendants,” about the sad side of life in Hawaii. ArtsBeat Blog: A Hockey Enforcer Has His (Dark) Day 2011-09-09T11:58:32Z In the early 1990s he entered his black period, producing work whose titles — “Day Dreaming,” “Profundity,” “Illusions” — reflected a more somber turn. Wu Guanzhong, Leading Chinese Painter, Dies at 90 2010-06-29T23:12:00Z Interwoven between the three rooms was the quiet and somber voice of Ryan Seacrest making sure that we all knew how critically important this day was for each and every one of them. 2010-02-17T16:01:00Z Also in somber black were the Backstreet Boys, the U.S. band who said they are nearing 26 years together. Cardi B steals Grammys red carpet pre-show with oysters and pearls 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z “Is this the moment to reform gun laws?” a British reporter from Sky News asked Cruz the next day, and the senator’s face fell in somber exasperation. Perspective | Only in America: enduring one mass shooting while bracing for the next 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z In the second act Phyllis, Ben, Buddy and Sally sing and dance out their wintry discontents in fantasy sequences that use clashing form and content to parallel the differences between cheery then and somber now. | 'Follies' : ?Follies? on Broadway - Review 2011-09-13T02:01:08Z The political speeches were somber, but they turned out to be more lively and bracing than any of Mr. Harris’s skits. Oscars 2015: Passionate Speeches, but Few Surprises 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z It was the beginning of “Hello”: just somber piano chords, Adele’s voice and the lyrics — “Hello, it’s me/I was wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet” — with no other information. Adele Cries to Her Music, Too 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z For some readers, the somber and scrupulously reported story that emerged was a disappointment, given the expectations raised by people who knew so little about it. Everyone knew there was a Redskins story — but what was it? That’s when the rumors took over. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The jury president, Tim Burton, cuts something of a somber figure, and the selection, truffled with old-timers to plump it up, feels skimpy. Cannes Opens to Darker Times 2010-05-11T11:00:00Z ‘CROSSING’ Based on the war diaries of Walt Whitman, this somber chamber opera by Matthew Aucoin was acclaimed at its premiere in 2015. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z If you want to find the spot where World War I became a truly somber affair for millions of Americans, you’re going to need some help. Where Americans Turned the Tide in World War I 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z A majestically somber, anthemlike melody arrived as strikers rioted on screen. Music Review: Johann Johannsson?s Music With Images at Winter Garden 2012-02-02T23:09:34Z The mood grows somber, but the comedy doesn’t allow the consequences of what occurs to sink in. Paul Rudnick's 'Big Night': Comedy and crisis in the awards machine of Hollywood 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z But with the exception of the opener, a somber new piece dedicated to the recent Ethiopian victims of the Islamic State, his first set on Sunday was all repertory. Girma Yifrashewa’s blend of European piano and Ethiopian music 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The mood at the sessions, Ford said, “was very somber.” The Exquisite Darkness of Depeche Mode 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Why do authors limit themselves to somber dialogue that they consider period-appropriate, a compulsion as specious as associating France with French fries jokes? Riff: The Bleak ?Game of Thrones? Needs More Light 2011-04-17T03:00:17Z Melting icecaps, rising sea levels and the destruction of coastal cities — all of this was narrated to a global audience in a tone that was somber, sober and unifying. Why the Rio Olympics opening ceremony matters 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z The film, which sets its satirical sights on more somber ransom-related movies like Ben Affleck's "Gone Baby Gone," does serve up ripe observational humor, particularly early. 'Gone Doggy Gone' serves up ripe humor that wears thin quickly 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z We played in a documentary program, and most of the other films featured very serious and somber topics; in fact, some people were still crying from the previous film when "Bad Dog" began. Watch the documentary “Bad Dog,” a true crime tale about Pep, the felonious pup 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z In “Sister,” which runs at a taut 35 minutes, frenetic moments occur along with more somber images, as when Ms. Oliver lays her body across Mr. Thomson’s chest. Two Sides of Contemporary Choreography at American Realness 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The source of the raw material isn’t the only somber touch. Review | In the galleries: A focus on sensitive portraits with biographical elements 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z At the beginning of your career you were known for more joyful roles, but in these two movies, these are somber and even, in the case of “Nocturnal Animals,” tortured women. Amy Adams on Eyes That Deceive 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z A funny, somber, ultimately exhilarating exercise in learning to let go of the people we love most. Perspective | Best movies of 2020: Diverse thrills, chills, Dickensian laughs and a pandemic-friendly trip to Greece 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z As agile and committed as the dancers are to the work’s somber tone and complexity, they can’t quite push its angst into the realm of the transcendent. Cedar Lake hits notes both light and light and dark in Seattle | Dance review 2012-11-16T20:29:55Z Shot on actual film stock in somber light, it tackles weighty historical issues with a blend of gravity and exuberant theatricality that would have done the old moguls proud. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Lincoln’ and Other Serious Films Top Oscar Nominee List 2013-01-11T04:30:04Z This footage alone, which captures hundreds of joyful faces — and Nadine as a solitary somber figure in the crowd — would be noteworthy. ‘Nelly & Nadine’ Review: An Unlikely Love, an Unlikely Record 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z The festival's closing night Tuesday had a somber note with remembrances given for victims of the Sichuan earthquake. Beijing festival honors 'Back to 1942' as top film 2013-04-24T06:16:05Z The contrast to the hushed and somber homes in which I watched people meeting the end of their lives was stark. Dying is never easy: Assisted suicide doesn’t necessarily help us have a “good death” 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The evening’s gimmickry does not stop at the goofy dance sequences and the stage full of Lincoln lookalikes, who occasionally raise the tone with somber readings from his writings. | 'Abraham Lincoln?s Big, Gay Dance Party': Chris Smith Directs a Play More or Less About Lincoln 2010-08-12T03:30:00Z The performance captured the ambiguity of this somber, restless music. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z “You can’t do better than Arlington Cemetery. It’s an inspiring place. Not just a somber place,” she says. Washingtonians, let’s play tourist: The area’s best walks and hikes 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The group stares down into the well for a few somber moments, then moves on. On a New York Underground Railroad Tour, Lessons in Resistance 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s a fairly restrained, somber example of its type, especially given that what the hapless Americans find amid the foliage is a chupacabra. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Zombeavers’ and Other Midnight Offerings at Tribeca Festival 2014-04-17T22:08:08Z “Movement,” which runs nearly as long, features more trio interplay, but as applied to the mechanics of a somber art song. Drummers’ Choices: Setting the Beat, Calling the Tune 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z On June 6, responding to the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd, Brown abandoned her bunny ears and cheer skirts to deliver a more somber message. Wacky costumes and competitions: Fitness instructors create community despite covid-19 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z The casket arrives, signaling a somber procession followed by the officiant announcing that those who know and love Logan best will speak. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z In this piece, a witty, careening sprint through 50 short musical segments, rambunctious snippets of country fiddling and cartoonish outbursts mesh into more somber, conventionally classical passages, all played with aplomb by the ensemble. Music Review: The JACK Quartet Plays Bryant Park 2013-07-28T19:41:00Z If there’s a parade and no giant inflatable turkey is involved, it’s probably something somber.” 50 Comics Walk Into a Club. No, You Haven’t Heard This One. 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z During somber passages of the slow movement, the dusky lower strings had the character of a Russian Orthodox male choir. Louis Langrée, Mr. Mostly Mozart, Brings His Cincinnati, and Tchaikovsky, to New York 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The third movement was somber and ardent, led by beautiful cello solos and the unforgettable rumble of the contrabass clarinet at one point, and the fourth shuddered with the pitiless march of implacable, triumphant death. National Festival Orchestra’s bright performance is a gift 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z The glowing, somber account of that Shostakovich Largo, though, will linger more. Music Review: The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-25T23:35:51Z Cohen creates an atmosphere for this love song that is surreal, somber and immediately captivating. We Asked Some Musicians to Pick Their Favorite Songs of All-Time 2011-10-26T13:25:58Z The vivacious first movement flowed into the more somber second without a break, passing from light to dark as if through a tunnel where you knew about the light at the other end. L.A. Phil's Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights a fire at Disney Hall 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z In recent months she ditched her somber camouflage in favor of brightly colored tracksuits and matching shoes. Billie Eilish: Gen Z’s Outrageous Fashion Role Model 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z “Unforgotten” is also familiar: at once a comfortably formulaic British mystery and a somber, elegiac melodrama, though a particularly well-made version of each. Review: ‘Unforgotten’ Makes the Case for Decency 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z Kobe responded: “Yeah, but there’s an ‘M-E,’” followed by an F-bomb that broke the somber tone and made the crowd roar. Tears from a comic, a mom and a legend mark Bryant memorial 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z They began the opening Adagio at a restrained tempo, letting the somber theme build inexorably into a web of ethereal counterpoint. Music Review: Eb?ne Quartet at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse 2010-08-19T21:21:00Z Like many teenage icons, Phoenix was slim and impossibly pretty, with a perfect ski-jump of a nose, and a blond curtain cascading over his somber face. River Phoenix died 25 years ago. He’s still slipping away from us. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z The night took a somber turn with “Spring,” a version of “The Rite of Spring” from the South African choreographer Dada Masilo. Review: Fall for Dance’s Sampler Platter of Extremes 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Velázquez, with an upturned mustache and bushy black hair, gazes dubiously toward the viewer, his expression somber and stern. Old Masters, Who Never Met, in Conversation 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Comedian Jeffrey Ross described it as "somber but funny" with plenty of hearty laughs from Rivers' friends. Stars come out for Joan Rivers' funeral 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z The mood of “Three Days” is somber and the presentation calm. Review: ‘Three Days of Terror’ Relives the Charlie Hebdo Attacks 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z While Joachim observes, in the album’s liner notes, that the melody here is somber, you can also hear the communal joy embedded in a music of cooperation. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z In a forced twist, the two end up alone together in a survivalist-type scenario where things turn romantic but also weird and somber. 'Love at First Fight' is a hit and miss French rom-com 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z And he didn’t want to make your standard documentary, the sort with talking heads and somber narration. Making a Michael J. Fox Movie With Michael J. Fox’s Movies 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Here to Deliver the Gloomy, Mesmerizing News Drones, throbs, somber vocals and, every so often, a dance beat orchestrated a dire world when Massive Attack performed at Terminal 5 on Wednesday night. Music Review: Massive Attack at Terminal 5 2010-05-13T20:27:00Z Perhaps to retaliate against the prettification of many classic children’s stories, prominent artists are drawn to recasting such works in more somber hues. Arts: Taking a ?Little Mermaid? to Dark New Depths 2010-03-20T00:33:00Z “Tremors of domestic social unrest and war in Algeria can be discerned hovering outside the somber, elegant frames,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in 2009. DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z And “Champagne Year” was steely and somber, a cynical hymn. Music Review: St. Vincent Sings at Metropolitan Museum of Art - Review 2011-08-26T23:18:13Z George was a conservative man, devoted to routine; he wore somber suits, left his house in New Jersey at exactly 9:05 a.m. each morning and resembled, one journalist said, “a retired Polish general.” Books of The Times: ?The Great A&P,? by Marc Levinson, a Retail History - Review 2011-09-06T21:03:24Z He seemed to be pondering why men of another era — the 18th century, say — looked authoritative in their high-collared shirts, somber frock coats, and powdered wigs. Whiskers, Kittens 2010-06-24T22:48:00Z The announcement included a somber photo of Perlman with his hand over his heart. Alec Baldwin says he'd beat Donald Trump in 2020 "hands down" 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Arranged chronologically, with spare, even somber exhibition design by Belgian architecture firm Office, the show includes 18 photographers. 'Constructing Worlds' exhibit at Barbican explores buildings as neighbors 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Near the end of his interview with Bill Murray, Howard Stern turned an already somber discussion about missed career opportunities into an existential grilling. Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern? 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z “The ceremony is somber and dignified,” said a Delta blog post from 2016, describing the tribute. Delta Passenger Says She Was Stopped From Singing National Anthem for Fallen Soldier 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Films about a 1960s massacre in Indonesia and the harsh conditions in Iran under present-day international sanctions and how they affect ordinary people struck somber notes at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday. Indonesia massacre, Iran sanctions impact infuse Venice film offerings 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Sidestepping the traffic of somber, formally inventive new plays about Black life, “Chicken & Biscuits” eagerly boards that rickety old bus. Review: In ‘Chicken & Biscuits,’ a Sweet but Dated Comedic Recipe 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Historians have not agreed on the actual music Hamilton sang that evening: It may have been a drinking song called “The Drum,” or the somber military ballad “How Stands the Glass Around.” ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z "Heart of Darkness" is a somber, depressing, intellectual idea. The right and wrong ways to name a movie 2011-02-11T14:50:00Z In trying to balance grandiosity with playfulness, to lampoon cowboy-and-Indian clichés while taking somber account of a history of violence, greed and exploitation, it descends into nerve-racking incoherence. Movie Review: In ‘The Lone Ranger,’ Tonto Takes Center Stage 2013-07-02T17:30:46Z And that could be because “Skins” has a somber, cautionary message behind all the teen debauchery. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: 'Skins,' Sex and Foreign Affairs 2011-02-01T11:38:24Z Its somber variations unfolded here with a poignant gravitas, an intensity that contrasted vividly with the musicians’ deft rendering of the more lighthearted qualities of the concluding movement. Review: Emerson String Quartet Plays Beethoven, Mozart and Fauré 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The Memorial Day weekend has evolved into more of an excuse for barbecues than somber salutes to our military, even amid the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Chicago News Cooperative: Exhibit Shows the Impact of War, Through the Artists and the Soldiers 2011-05-29T06:10:04Z The party wasn’t festive, it was quite somber, but it felt very good to be with people. Didion on 9/11: How many times can America lose its innocence? 2013-09-16T00:00:00Z It’s striking, but still not as potently expressive as the title track, a somber theme handled with the freest sort of care. New Music: New Albums From VCMG, Brad Mehldau Trio and Henry Cole 2012-03-12T22:32:55Z His colors are rich and somber, an assortment of nuanced browns and greens almost always spearheaded by a deep rusty red, a signature hue during this phase. Yasuo Kuniyoshi, a Modernist Often Overlooked, Gets a Smithsonian Retrospective 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z I look somber, possibly because my father had shared on approach to the landmark that it was, at least then, the most popular bridge in the world to jump off. California’s Highway 1, With Memory Riding Shotgun 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z As Mr. Smythe played light but somber chords, sometimes using the soft pedal and adding a small complement of electronics, Mr. Evans played in gunshot gusts and stout melodies — assertive and bold, but vaguely absconded. Wynton Marsalis Provokes Again With Head-Scratching ‘Ever Fonky Lowdown’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z And suddenly, “Sakina’s Restaurant” has acquired a new, somber underlining, making us miss a time when ignorance was paired with benign disinterest rather than hate. Review: Aasif Mandvi Makes You Want to Stop at ‘Sakina’s Restaurant’ 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Wearing a long and somber black dress, Sobchak said she was ready for a new life. Russian It Girl's path from parties to protests 2012-06-14T16:31:18Z His flinty baritone was dialed down to match the somber aftermath of insurrection. What does Josh Hawley think he’s doing? 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z The record swells with storming guitars and anthemic synths with a few disco detours creating some sonic distance from her past work’s somber rep. 8 artists to watch at Capitol Hill Block Party 2019 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z He’s a more somber character now, hardened and healthily mistrustful, but he agrees, in exchange for being allowed to return home and see his young son. Review: ‘Deutschland 86,’ an East-West Thriller, Looks South 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z In the work's second half, the music takes a more somber turn, and the benches become precarious perches from which dancers fall, sometimes to be raised back up, sometimes not. UW's Chamber Dance revives haunting 'Hold' 2011-10-14T17:23:04Z This dissonant city symphony ends on a somber note, in a shot of a closed-down movie theater with a “For Rent” sign in the window. ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Review: No Sex, Please, We’re Romanian 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z In pie charts published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States government colors the deaths that occur within its borders in somber pastels. What Makes an American Hero? (Or a Canadian One?) 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Its songs touch on somber topics, like war and death, as well as more whimsical ones. From Natalie Merchant, a Literary Tour 2010-04-16T19:06:00Z Mr. Costello becomes somber himself when he discusses the current state of the music industry, and how he’s gotten off “the machine” of recording an album every year or two followed by tours. Elvis Costello’s New York Soul 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z “Rothko Chapel” and “Monochromatic Light,” both spacious yet intimate, share a certain ritualistic sobriety, with a choir textlessly hovering over soft, somber beats of percussion. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z The music is an elegy, set to the somber minor chords of a string ensemble, without a rhythm track, recognizing intractable problems while Nas quietly insists, “We need a plan to survive.” The Playlist: AlunaGeorge Says No and Radiohead Says Goodnight 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Charlie Greenberg, the show’s accomplished composer, has written music with somber and stirring undertones for the transition to Charles’s stint as a child laborer, and music-hall-style numbers for lighter moments. Review: ‘Young Charles Dickens’ Musically Mixes Fact and Fiction 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The first single from Jon Batiste’s forthcoming album, “Hollywood Africans,” stays anchored to a set of tolling, somber arpeggios on the piano, never bubbling over into a funk groove or a power-ballad roar. The Playlist: Blood Orange’s Fragile Pop, and 11 More New Songs 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z He is elliptical at times and, at others, direct: alternately distant and affable, somber and playful, rash and profoundly considered. At 90, Jerry Lewis’s Mouth Runneth Over 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z But he turns somber and biting when he describes the corrosive effect of anti-Semitism on his sense of self, the self-hatred and shame that crippled him from an early age and lingered well into adulthood. ‘A Backpack, a Bear and Eight Crates of Vodka,’ a Memoir 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z During a break, he happened on Armstrong lost in a moment of somber repose, one that quickly gave way to his trademark grin. ‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ Review: In His Own Words 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The movie’s opening image — a traveling shot of dying and dead men scattered across a field — shows a darker, more somber side of Mr. Tavernier. | 'The Princess of Montpensier': Pawn, Prize and Beauty, So Submit She Must 2011-04-14T22:43:40Z From its somber beginnings, Mr. Resnais’s work seemed to grow more lighthearted over the years. Alain Resnais, Acclaimed French Filmmaker, Is Dead at 91 2014-03-02T16:40:47Z They traveled a complex journey together from somber woodwinds to glorious soaring strings, and sent the crowd home very happy. Review: Slatkin, Thibaudet take Seattle Symphony audiences on a jazzy jaunt 2011-04-22T17:02:03Z Nyong'o radiantly conveys the brightness and vulnerability of this girl, whose unmistakable potential throws into somber relief her dim prospects. Danai Gurira's 'Eclipsed' — a harrowing tale of women and war in Africa — is a promising sign of Broadway's future 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z With her rigid posture and somber, focused air, Nicolás channels a good deal of the play’s drama and meaning. Art, life and disappointment in the deserts of 1950s Mexico 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Through all the fun, “there is always a somber or very serious component that I think he’s always been the most focused on and proud of.” Duke Riley: Grand Master Trash 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z More somber, and even more naked, was Loh’s July/August 2009 column on the contradictions of contemporary marriage, “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off:” Sadly, and to my horror, I am divorcing. Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z He made a paper mask of Rimbaud’s face and took strange and somber photographs of men wearing it in subways and in places like Coney Island. Books Of the Times: ‘Fire in the Belly,’ on David Wojnarowicz, by Cynthia Carr 2012-07-19T21:57:47Z It is a somber, analytic play with pictorial conventions, a far cry from his own luxuriantly hedonistic “Bonheur.” Art Review: ‘Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-07-01T22:11:53Z Like Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” — albeit in a more somber key — “The Birth of a Nation” is a revenge movie, a tale of righteous, bloody punishment for an unforgivable crime. Review: In Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Must-See and Won’t-See Collide 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z That she talked about it in the pages of Partisan Review, a bastion of somber high seriousness, compounded the allure. Cultural Studies: Thomas Piketty, the Economist Behind ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ Is the Latest Overnight Intellectual Sensation 2014-04-25T23:51:03Z The scene also defines a turning point in the play’s tone, from chipper to momentously somber. Review: A Voyage of Teachable Moments in ‘India Pale Ale’ 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Many believe that it’s inappropriate to be festive while the rest of the country observes a somber anniversary. This Life: A Day to Dance or Weep? 2010-09-03T20:42:00Z The first movement was a fascinating mix of dirgelike pathos and nervous palpitations; somber moods flitted over the second movement like clouds as the horns repeated three rising notes in majestic dismay. Review: Passel of Frenchmen fit into symphony's evening 2010-06-11T18:48:00Z He finds an assortment of somber ways to answer that question again and again. Books of The Times: Anthony Doerr?s ?Memory Wall,? Fleeting Yesterdays 2010-07-28T22:07:00Z There was a bit of everything in the collection, but somehow it was all pretty controlled and even rather somber. On the Runway Blog: Fashion Week Finale: Marc Jacobs 2011-09-16T04:19:05Z Every year, the anniversary is marked with somber commemorations, with the wailing of a siren, a minute of silence and special prayers in churches. Madonna concert in Poland to open with WWII film 2012-07-18T17:42:12Z On a more somber note, Inner Harbor is also the site of the memorial dedicated to the 69 Marylanders who died in the 9/11 attacks. For a better sense of Baltimore, get out of the Inner Harbor and head to Fells Point 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z And in Christian Camargo, who plays the title role, Mr. Nunn has an actor who grounds the play in solid if somber emotion. Review: In ‘Pericles,’ Much Ado About a Lot of Things 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The performances are slow and somber, dropping to a whisper or building to a breaking ululation. Peter Gabriel Says, ?I?ll Sing Yours, You Sing Mine? 2010-03-01T22:48:00Z This somber, intimate and at times wrenching self-portrait — written by the actress herself and not a ghostwriter — feels like an act of personal investigation, not a Hollywood memoir. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The fear of letting the wrong thought slip out made her somber, she said, and pushed her toward “books and very solitary things.” Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The somber, hymn-like work in multiple movements debuted in 2011 as a commission to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. 'Hamilton' wins musicals award; Stephen Paulus and Boston Symphony honored in classical category 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The music stayed somber and steadfast, determinedly maintaining its glum tone. Music Review: Jakob Dylan at Town Hall, Bleak and Somber 2010-04-22T21:42:00Z “Spatial Aspects of the Sound” is a striking, somber chamber piece. A Pioneering Black Composer Keeps Pushing 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Catholicism was suppressed in Ireland at the time, and these somber, awe-struck carols reaffirmed faith. For New Holiday Albums, It Takes All Kinds 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Those pop stars bring happiness and joy easily, whereas my role is more serious and somber. Meet Zeus the rat: 'Curious Incident' star, Method actor, scene stealer 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z But its essence remains the same: to honor Mr. Holder with something more festive than somber. Review: Garth Fagan Dance Honors Geoffrey Holder With Festivity, Not Sorrow 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z “The painting was so black, so somber and a little nightmarish, with dark clouds and a ghostlike cathedral, I never considered it as important,” Lady Hambleden said in a phone interview. With Misattributed Constable Masterpiece, a Rare Look Into the Imprecise World of Art Identification 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Yet the perception that Rothko’s somber palette reflected personal angst is entrenched. Mark Rothko’s Dark Palette Illuminated 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z In Molly Dektar’s somber debut novel, “The Ash Family,” the protagonist wrestles with these same questions. ‘The Ash Family’ Is a Debut Novel for Our Climate-Anxious Age 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Equally absorbing, but more somber, is “The House on the Hill,” Amy E. Witting’s heartbreaking story about loss and friendship. Review | Shepherdstown theater festival features world premieres and top notch acting 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z But then Anna discovers the look on his face when he sees iPhone videos of his nephew and our somber one lights up. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Evan shows feeling 2010-05-18T13:20:00Z Witty but not campy, grand without being unduly somber, it is a crazy, almost-coherent riot of intrigue, color and kineticism anchored by the charisma of its cast. | 'Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame': ?Detective Dee? With Andy Lau - Review 2011-09-01T21:38:44Z Earlier collections presented subtle yet loud prints, but the color palette for this season took on a distinctively somber cloak. T Magazine: Not Your Everyday Swedish Label 2013-04-24T15:19:59Z As extravagant and eye-popping as they've grown to be, they started on a more somber note. Try this on for size: Nick Cave's Soundsuits at SAM 2011-03-10T22:41:06Z Like its subject, it’s somber, yet it’s also prickly and strange, sometimes all at once.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The documentary is somber in its depiction of Smith getting everything she asked for but for which she was not prepared. The legacy of Anna Nicole Smith and why we need to retire the term "gold digger" 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z A section marked “Funèbre” found the four instruments in an impassioned, somber mood: mourning that was individual yet communal. Review: A New York Philharmonic Contact! Menu, With Esa-Pekka Salonen as Chef 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The film ends on a lightly triumphant comeback note, but the original ending was more somber. Lewis Capaldi Will Break Your Heart. (But Don’t Take Him Too Seriously.) 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z And with its multicultural cast, wrote theater critic Charles McNulty, “‘Hamilton’ was the right recipient of adulation on this somber night.” Don’t expect “Hamilton: The Movie” anytime soon, though. Essential Arts & Culture: Monumental sculpture, 'Finding Dory's' fluid music and lessons from the Tonys 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z Suffice to say the mood was weird and somber by night when we arrived. I lost my virginity at 37: What that night at the Bunny Ranch really taught me 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z There was little to surprise but much to please at Rick Owens, with a collection that remained absolutely faithful to the label's somber, post-apocalyptic, unisex aesthetic. Gaultier reveals the hidden, feminine side of 007 2011-01-20T23:25:16Z Underwood will perform her new single "See You Again," recasting it as a somber memorial with the aid of two dozen choir members from Nashville's Christ Church. Underwood to lend voice to tornado relief on CMTs 2013-06-04T18:42:09Z But beneath this theatrical story runs a more somber tale of Norah’s own disappointments, conveyed in asides and sighs. Review | Anne Enright is the real star of her brilliant new novel ‘Actress’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The palette was darker, the mood occasionally somber, the moral less Looney Tunes than Lifetime. How to Train Your Dragon 2 at Cannes: Beasts of the Viking Wild 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z “We wanted to start in a somber way, then have a pause and be able to celebrate a little more robustly. It felt right to take the two weekends as bookends.” The Kennedy Center is turning 50 with a year-long celebration of new works and special performances — in person, no less 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z There she was in a Fox News sparring match with Bret Baier, disavowing the Big Lie in a somber black dress and navy jacket. Liz Cheney: The Model of a Modern Never-Trumper 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Rudd’s arrest caps what has been a somber year for the iconic Australian hard rock outfit. AC/DC Drummer Accused of Trying to Arrange Murder 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z That he later won best new artist was a somber reminder this is the same network that also gave us Jesse Camp. 10 best moments from MTV's Video Music Awards 2010-09-13T12:36:00Z “A Doll’s House, Part 2” shifts rapidly from laughter to fury to sorrow to somber acceptance. Laurie Metcalf in 'Doll's House, Part 2': An acting marvel in one of the year's best plays 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Chast wrote down all those stories, and she also did a series of drawings — somber pen-and-ink sketches of her mother near the end of her life. Books of The Times: A Memoir by Roz Chast, in Words and Cartoons 2014-05-05T21:26:43Z On Monday night, Trevor Noah began his broadcast of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central with remarks that were mostly somber but still found room to be tongue-in-cheek. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Other Late-Night Hosts Respond to the Paris Attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z It was Mr. Corley’s shoulder she sought, and on the somber drive to his home, she wondered if he might have been thinking about her, or feeling her pain. A Blueberry Pie Told Her All She Needed to Know 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z But all will not be somber, for the program also includes two light-hearted pieces by Mr. Bahiri, “Concerto” and “Edge.” The Week Ahead: Nov. 13 ? 19 2011-11-11T14:58:50Z The show opens with a jolting scene that morphs from somber to slapstick when the drugs don’t work. Review: ‘Mary Kills People,’ but It’s for a Good Reason 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Though it is a somber story, the film is enlivened and energized by striking, purposeful images. ‘Identifying Features’ Review: Lost in Migration 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Directed by Mr. Manning, with an amusing performance by Deon Frank as the waiter, the play begins as comedy, then takes a somber turn that does not bode well for the couple’s engagement. Review: ‘The Unrepeatable Moment,’ Six Plays by John Yearley 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z "Some Boys" and "Codes and Keys" carried on a "night of metaphor" as Gibbard called it, with his melancholy voice taking the crowd on a sometimes somber, reflective journey. Death Cab for Cutie galvanizes a sold-out Showbox crowd 2011-05-12T21:44:05Z Even so, there was nothing kitschy about the somber image, which gradually began to shift as the dancers leaned and swayed into one another. Dance Review: Makiko Tamura/Small Apple Co. in ‘Tank’ at the Joyce SoHo 2012-07-15T21:16:21Z It is possible to savor the crags and shadows of Mr. Neeson’s performance without quite grasping why Mr. Landesman thinks the story is worthy of such somber, serious and sustained attention. Review: In ‘Mark Felt,’ Liam Neeson Is the Man Known as Deep Throat 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z But as the mood shifts from sex comedy toward loftier, more somber matters — money, loyalty, family honor — “House of Gucci” manages to become both overwrought and tedious. ‘House of Gucci’ Review: Murder, Italian-Style 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The result is antithetical to the somber arrangements of Morning Phase. Beck's Colors Finds Joy In Its Time 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z All of which is very somber — and a little odd, when you think about it. Riff: The Bleak ?Game of Thrones? Needs More Light 2011-04-17T03:00:17Z The mood was rather somber and tense, and yet, as people knew, they were coming to a fashion show — in a tent behind the museum. On the Runway: For Dior, the Show Goes On 2011-03-04T15:58:30Z In the post-“Cowbell” decade, the somber “Reaper” was suddenly fair game for comedies like “The Simpsons,” “Parks and Recreation” and, in an a cappella version, “Scrubs.” ‘(Don’t Fear) the Reaper’ Is a Creepy Tune, Even With the Cowbell 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Take the current crop of Oscar-nominated films, starting with "Zero Dark Thirty," a somber look at a central event of a wartime presidency. The Carpetbagger: Tell Us Your Candidates for Obama Cinema 2013-01-16T16:29:35Z Ms. Oh extracts a wide and somber sound from the upright bass. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Why was he just hopping in on the heels of the most somber time of the year in the Christian calendar? Transform your leftover Easter candy into gourmet-inspired cookies 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z While Ms. Baker’s songs are exquisitely somber, the singer was cheerful and voluble across a cafe table. Julien Baker Bravely Confronts Her Traumas and Fears 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z Amid projected historic turnout — and historic national anxiety — media organizations plan to strike a more somber, deliberate tone. How is TV news going to cover the weirdest, most fraught election in history? All of your questions answered. 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Aaron Sorkin’s snappy, sloppy re-enactment of a famous real-life slice of American political courtroom drama, understands that the somber and the ridiculous have a habit of becoming entwined. ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Review: They Fought the Law 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Savage and somber, “Sweet Country” is, on its face, the story of a manhunt. Review: 1920s Australia Is No ‘Sweet Country’ for Aboriginal Australians 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z His somber piano anchored such midtempo brooders as “Guilty Party” and “I Need My Girl,” delivered by Berninger with his usual suave growl. Review | The National stay suave while shaking things up 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z It’s intricately layered — at times all-out rock, at other times complete noise, at others a somber choir. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z While the raucous burning of the “man” on Saturday night is perhaps the most familiar symbol of Burning Man, many Burners find more meaning in the somber destruction of the Temple on Sunday. Exclusive: Burning Man is supposed to be a safe space. Sexual assault survivors say it's not 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The men dress in grey or dark suits, so I wear a somber pantsuit. How Hillary Clinton Ended the Clothing Conversation 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z People tend to remember him playing the popular songs of the time, more so than the somber and stabbing work that came to define him. A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The interiors, which a production memo stipulated be “enormous, musty and somber,” were designed by Oscar-winner Hans Dreier and built on the Paramount lot. Design Hollywood 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The two-part penultimate special before Oprah’s final episode was a big bash with guests from Madonna to Beyoncé, but her final episode was a much simpler, more somber affair. Here's How 5 Legendary Talk Show Hosts Said Goodbye 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z And magic, of a peculiarly somber, meditative kind, is what we have here. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z So when I looked at them, they looked sort of somber in hue, so that's why I titled it that. Painter Patssi Valdez on capturing energy, an L.A. fashion installation 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Despite its somber themes, making the cathartic record helped pull Walters out of his funk. Silver Torches to play from beautiful downer ‘Let It be a Dream’ at Tractor Tavern 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Serkin offered an excellent performance of this rhythmically incisive and harmonically colorful piece, imbuing the somber interludes with a poetic introspection and the dissonant, dramatic, bell-like passages that conclude the work with bristling fervor. Music Review: Peter Serkin Brings Musical Abstraction to 92nd Street Y 2014-05-12T21:40:29Z There is another passage that alternates somber brasses and a mass of answering strings, like an ancient rite. Music Review: Georg Friedrich Haas’s ‘dark dreams,’ at Berlin Philharmonic 2014-02-23T18:48:18Z Just five blocks south of the library, the Austrian Cultural Forum hosts a much more somber reflection of the president’s digital habits. The ‘Daily Show’ Twitter library is just one of many art projects about Trump’s tweets 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z And interspersed throughout are a handful of his originals, including the country-tinged “Little Foot,” the darkly reflective “Backup” and the magnificently somber “Trieste.” Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z But after his somber election night special, the comedian returned to his regular slot on Wednesday for a Late Show episode in which he tried to explain Trump’s victory and offer his audience some comfort. Stephen Colbert Is Struggling to Accept Trump as President: 'This Sucks' 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “Wolf Hall,” a splendidly somber six-part “Masterpiece” series premiering Sunday on PBS, deserves the cartload of praise being heaped upon it — t’would be a shame if it gets lost in the usual Sunday-night TV gridlock. ‘Wolf Hall’: A somber, perfect take on that time the Tudors went tabloid 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Simon’s mourners, with 13 companions, arrived, by somber happenstance, on the eve of the 15th anniversary of 9/11. A Consolation of Voices: At the Park Avenue Armory, Mourning the World Over 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z The New Yorker printed it on the back page of its first issue after the attacks, where it sat, alone, somber as a tombstone but surrounded by enough white space to feel something like hope. Perspective | Words of wisdom or wishful thinking? The problem with new books that aim to heal us. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Reached by email, Barbara Morris was somber about the death of a patient that the religious teachings of her former employer had prevented her from helping. Terminally ill, he wanted assisted death, but his hospital was Catholic 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z A somber, trilling violin speaks to the Russian setting, but Harrow mashes up the Motherland with the Big Easy, abruptly inserting jazz-inspired numbers as well. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z But before we go there, the mood takes a somber turn. "True Blood" recap: Were-Swayze edition 2010-06-28T12:29:00Z Others are more somber with a dark emotional undertow. In ‘The Dog,’ Jack Livings Writes of a Modernizing China 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z The band joins her with somber vocal harmonies, tolling drone tones, clanking percussion and baleful fiddle slides, a crescendo of dread. Karol G and Romeo Santos’s Sensual Goodbye, and 10 More New Songs 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z This was pretty somber stuff, melancholic even — and that’s not an uninteresting thought, given his 50-plus years in fashion and the crumbling ramparts of sophisticated taste. A Vision in Melancholy 2011-07-06T22:31:19Z “Exhibit C” has also taken on a life of its own, spawning countless remixes from rappers invested in the lyrical tradition the song upheld, and unafraid of its somber mood. Music Review: Jay Electronica and Big K.R.I.T. Rap for Purists 2010-07-02T22:14:00Z She said this year's program was somber, with little comedy on the agenda. Fans camp out for tickets to more serious Berlin film fest 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The singer with the self-serious reputation busted out dance moves that brought the somber, foreboding music on his 2006 solo release, “The Eraser,” squirming to life. Album review: Radiohead, 'The King of Limbs' 2011-02-20T05:48:13Z The Emerson Quartet offered an ideally balanced interpretation: somber and mournful, more dignified than sentimental. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-08-14T22:06:47Z “There is a slight dampening effect for us because of the title — when you read ‘suicide,’ people think it’s going to be a somber play, and not enjoyable,” Simons said. ‘For Colored Girls’ to Close on Broadway, Reflecting Tough Season 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z He is valuable to ensembles and institutions because of his versatility — he can do somber solos as well as large-scale vocal works. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z The somber black ensemble, with its sharp Mao-collar jacket, reflected the Communist sympathies she had developed before buying the suit in 1968. Jane Fonda: The Reluctant Fashionista 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Alt-J’s songs are somber but laced with hooks: clear melody lines, wordless vocal refrains, upfront guitar riffs, stray effects. Review: Alt-J at Madison Square Garden 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The museum’s implied conclusion is sensed rather than taught: after the harrowing history, you are brought back, finally, to the present, in somber gratitude. Critic’s Notebook: Israel’s Holocaust Museums Evolve in Message and Methods 2012-09-04T22:03:21Z Anonymous 4 offers a graceful traversal through the mystical, somber and harmonically pungent work. Classical Playlist: Handel, George Benjamin, David Lang and Others 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Working until three o’clock in the morning, the Beatles then devoted more than two hours to rehearsing a new Lennon composition titled “Cry Baby Cry,” with its nursery-rhyme lyrics and somber tones. The Beatles’ struggle to finish “The White Album”: How bad did it get? 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Like that piece, its orchestration calls for basset horns and leans heavily on the lower strings, setting a richly somber tone that conjures an organ-like timbre. Review: Mozart’s Requiem Gets a Fresh Spin at the Philharmonic 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z His tale was somber and compelling on what happens in the heat of battle, including the execution of prisoners. Sir John Keegan, Historian Who Put a Face on War, Dies at 78 2012-08-03T01:01:09Z Factory noises, distant shouts and trap percussion are laced through a track that revolves around four somber but ascending chords, mourning what it’s selling. The Playlist: Willie Nelson Is Still Standing, and 10 More New Songs 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Hozier, the Irish songwriter who performed at the Beacon Theater on Friday night, is a somber phenomenon. Review: Hozier at Beacon Theater With Somber Songs of Love and Other Futilities 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z After a curiously somber, slow introduction, the Allegro movement takes off with a jaunty tune for a coy clarinet. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Plays at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-10T23:23:32Z Dirk Luijmes put the wheezy keyboard instrument through its paces in the three-movement piece, huffing through Bachian finger exercises and somber lines while surrounded by a dizzy clamor enacted with breathtaking economy and precision. Music Review: Louis Andriessen, Composing Under the Radar 2010-04-19T22:18:00Z Starting Monday, Ballet Theater switches gears from somber to sprightly with “Don Quixote,” another ballet staple. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Like the musical “Once,” “Hands on a Hardbody” feels restrained and even somber compared with more typical Broadway fare that showers the audience in giddy escapism. Theater Review: ‘Hands on a Hardbody’ at La Jolla Playhouse 2012-06-05T22:12:18Z It registered as one of the California Democrat’s familiar somber suits — this time worn with a black, or railings-colored, shirt. Perspective | Kamala Harris embraced black. That was both unremarkable and theatrically powerful. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Subtitled “Odes to Love and Loss,” Dove’s work, which the DTH performed at Sidney Harman Hall, has a somber feel from the start. Dance Theatre of Harlem plumbs the power of pain 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z And amid a day of carefully staged celebration, he looked somber, even weighed down by it. Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z If you’re going to make a song about heartbreak, draping it in somber tones and leaning on country’s hard-luck ethos makes sense. Best Coast Gets a Little Darker on Fade Away EP 2013-10-28T14:00:44Z Here her goateed subject wears a somber black-and-white striped shirt and a haughty expression, lips tightly pursed below his mustache. Art in Review: ?ITALIAN PAINTINGS From the 17th and 18th Centuries? 2011-02-03T22:06:16Z At its worst, “Drones” is as somber and weighted as “2nd Law” was prone to flights of crazy. Muse meets ‘Drones’: More prog-rock paranoid fantasies 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z "The Discreet Hero" is somber, but there is an undertone of amusement, perhaps at the foibles of everyone, even discreet heroes. Mario Vargas Llosa takes on human foibles in 'The Discreet Hero' 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z In his video, Mr. Johnson is somber, yet as pained and vulnerable as a man-mountain in a muscles-bulging T-shirt can be. As Images of Pain Flood TV, ‘Where Is Our Leader?’ 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z So there was no change in my thinking; rather a somber confirmation and a dread, which is still with me today, of what may yet be in store. The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Gout combines a slick, kinetic style with a somber ethical sense. ‘Days of Grace,’ a Mexican Film by Everardo Gout 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Really, though, it’s a lot of fun, in spite of the somber picture I’ve been painting. Review: New ‘Planet of the Apes’ Makes You Root Against Your Species 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z On a beautiful summer day in 2016, as I walked with a group of college students along a well-trodden path sprinkled with needles and cones from majestic pine trees, our mood was somber and morose. Why tourists go to sites associated with death and suffering 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Showing as night fell on Paris, this haute couture collection brought a somber elegance that recalled the more apocalyptic Chanel ready-to-wear. Special Report: Fashion: Chanel: The Art of the Dark 2011-07-06T14:29:17Z On Friday nights, the otherwise somber space hosts concerts and pours wine until 10 p.m. 36 Hours in Philadelphia 2013-01-03T19:28:42Z The music uncannily blends restless animation with somber contemplativeness, conveying that the natural world, though baffling and brutal, is alive with lust, yearning, ecstasy and danger. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z On March 17, when Mr. Trump struck a somber note after minimizing the virus for weeks, CNN’s Dana Bash said that he was being “the kind of leader that people need, at least in tone.” President Trump’s Prime-Time Pandemic 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Though songs like "Chasing Pirates," "Young Blood" and "Light as a Feather" were somber in theme, they were performed without melancholy. Norah Jones shows off new shoes, new approach at Seattle's Paramount 2010-04-19T16:02:00Z Though the new paintings touch on potentially somber themes, they are rendered in luminous colors and letters; the new mountain paintings feature beautiful blue skies. Ed Ruscha Continues His Wordplay 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The two main characters—a lonely, ostracized boy and the creepy, bedraggled girl who befriends him—are as somber and mournful as the chilly, austere landscape. Hollywood Goes to Sweden 2010-02-18T17:04:00Z But scripts about cheating and its consequences continued to flourish, in hues frivolous, somber and — modern morality being muddy — somewhere in between. London Stages, Full of Cheating Hearts 2013-07-18T12:00:01Z The foundation of her music, which is most obvious in “You Should Know Where I’m Coming From,” is Fiona Apple’s somber, slow-chorded piano ballads, full of heartache, accusation, self-doubt and inward rage. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z If Mr. Rush’s interpretation of madness might be said to have been in Technicolor, Ms. Falco’s was in MRI shades of gray, an exercise in somber, clinical exactitude. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Method to Their Madness 2011-07-07T15:40:01Z Their somber tones stood in sharp contrast to the bright colors favored by the adherents of Tachisme, France’s answer to Abstract Expressionism. Pierre Soulages, Leading French Abstract Painter, Dies at 102 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z That’s an inspired touch, actually, but there’s little else to give variation to the somber tone of woe foretold in this well-acted but ultimately monotonous production. Theater Review: In ?The Broken Heart,? Tainted Love, Onstage at the Duke 2012-02-14T23:28:52Z It’s a somber end to a film that opens with and is undergirded by Zimbabweans’ hope for change. ‘President’ Review: Zimbabwe’s Struggle for Democracy 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Delayed for a year by the pandemic, this notably somber, adult-feeling Biennial lived up to its hushed title. Best Art of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The appealing baritone Robert E. Mellon, a graduate of the school, sang with characterful flair and myriad shadings, imbuing the somber texts with poignancy and dramatic vigor in equal measure. Manhattan School of Music Symphony - Review?The Penal Colony? by American Opera Projects - Review 2011-10-03T22:40:28Z How does she do in that more somber tone? Maria Semple is back with another loopy, darkly comic novel 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z And years later, when he was a 20-year-old art student in Austria, he was no happier when his father sat him down to give him a somber relic of his family’s past. Possessed: Ugo Rondinone Embraces His Family’s Hard Past 2013-05-03T23:13:24Z Q. The titles on “Tomorrow’s Harvest” are somber: “Sick Times,” “Collapse,” “Come to Dust.” A Word With: Boards of Canada: ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest,’ by Boards of Canada 2013-06-11T21:13:07Z After the intermission, two pieces by Crystal Pite, both created for Nederlands Dans Theater and new to the Royal Ballet, offered more somber worlds. On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z It spans the years 1965 to 1989, and its mood is restless, experimental and dark; the somber black-and-white palette and ambiguous, shadowy shapes reflect periods of depression and, in later works, terminal illness. Jay DeFeo 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The subtle lighting, dark marble, and treasure-laden walls evoke the feeling of a tomb without being somber or frightening. Kansas City museum to open new Egyptian Galleries 2010-05-06T17:52:00Z In a digitally modified voice that sounded like Darth Vader, Anderson referenced the presidential race as somber synthesizer music played in the background. Laurie Anderson and Todd Haynes are honored at Hammer Museum gala, where the talk turns political 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z These upbeat scenes give way to images of students descending on campuses and then, a handful of older people talking while decked in somber caps and gowns. Review: ‘The Hunting Ground’ Documentary, a Searing Look at Campus Rape 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z There’s so much to care about, most obviously the somber state of the planet. The Dance of Too-Hot Summer? Melt Into the Pinegrove Shuffle. 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z The series makes its debut a week after “The Hurt Locker” won the Oscar for best picture, and like that film, its tone is in somber tune with the times. Television Review | 'The Pacific': First Marine Division in Gruesome World War II Battles 2010-03-11T23:25:00Z To put himself in a somber frame of mind, LaBeouf plugged his iPod into some speakers and started playing a wistful ballad, Feist's "Brandy Alexander." Shia LaBeouf: 'I have these yearnings to do different things' 2011-06-27T23:31:38Z She wore a cheery pink Jean Pigozzi sweater and black Rivieras slip-on shoes; her mood was somber. Taking a Hard Spill in Designer Shoes 2012-08-01T20:19:05Z “About Endlessness,” his new feature, is at once gloomy and vivid, 76 minutes worth of vignettes that are individually somber and cumulatively exhilarating. ‘About Endlessness’ Review: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Seriously, they note, the Wili-style community in “Giselle of Loneliness” has an uplifting resonance, not a somber one, which echoes the affirming dynamic that Pyle and fellow company members have created in Ballez itself. This LGBTQ ‘Giselle’ celebrates individuality, putting a spotlight on non-inclusiveness in classical ballet 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s enshrined in insightful and somber museums along the northern shores of Lake Superior, where the ship went down in 1975. Road-tripping around Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The villagers look somber, but also intermittently restless and bored, which is also how you may feel. Art Review: Sanja Ivekovic?s ?Sweet Violence? at Museum of Modern Art - Review 2011-12-15T23:26:19Z What’s new is that Ham’s subjects are American men and women in the military killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, grouped in a somber memorial. Review | In the galleries: A century apart, Khalil Gibran and contemporary artists explore questions of home and displacement at MEI Art Gallery 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z There are more somber messages, too, which demand that you think more concretely about what an individual life is worth. ‘Temping’ Is a Workplace Drama for One. You’re Hired. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Upper Glossa was both more somber and more enveloping. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z By the final somber scenes, you realize just how broken the system is. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z And Scandinavian films seem especially likely to lose something in translation: if La-la Land is all about surface, lightness, and escapism, the land of Bergman, IKEA, and the Nobel Prize is somber, cool, and understated. Hollywood Goes to Sweden 2010-02-18T17:04:00Z The mood inside the seedy club started off somber and uncertain, as little was known about Mr. Hill’s death — only that he had collapsed on the way to a hospital after feeling ill. All-Night Sendoff for a Clubland King 2011-04-06T23:39:28Z Colors are dark but not somber, and the looks are often monochromatic or mix-matched patterns, with lots of pinstripes, checks and plaids. Milan designers fall back on the “classics” 2013-01-14T18:09:16Z The ominous counterpoint guitars of “Little by Little,” stately piano of “Codex” and somber deliberation of “Give Up the Ghost” provide ballast; they are muted, unsurprising reminders of Radiohead’s past. Album review: Radiohead, 'The King of Limbs' 2011-02-20T05:48:13Z Dvorák's somber Stabat Mater was given a rare performance Wednesday night by the Czech Philharmonic, the Prague Philharmonic Choir and four vocal soloists at the Valley Performing Arts Center. Seeking an inner light amid darkness of Dvorak's Stabat Mater 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z His nine-member ensemble performed selections including the jubilant “Optimism,” the foot-tapping “Digression on the History of Jews and Black Music” and “Dialogue With My Great-Grandfather,” in which a somber tune unfolds over dignified chords. Music Review: Kronos, Asphalt Orchestra and Jacob Garchik Perform 2013-07-29T21:27:41Z That day on the set, even with Mr. Labine’s somber comments, certain elements worked against his being taken seriously. A Go-To Guy, if You Want a Do-Nothing 2010-02-27T03:18:00Z One person said, “Monaco,” maybe thinking of Grace Kelly because of the somber wedding dresses. On the Runway Blog: Jil Sander: Thinking Positive 2011-09-24T17:37:41Z We’re accustomed to Canadian shows like “Durham County” and “Da Vinci’s Inquest” being more somber and less prone to happy resolutions than their American counterparts. ?Her Name Was Steven? on CNN Presents 2010-03-13T00:45:00Z On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes came together in a somber Roman palazzo on the left bank of the Tiber River. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z The fifth and longest prelude begins with improvisatory caution, then moves to somber, sepulchral depths, with taps at the left end of the keyboard setting off forlorn high fragments on the right. Music Review: Gilles Vonsattel Performs at Bargemusic 2014-04-20T21:33:19Z There is a lusty yet somber quality to her strikingly dark mezzo, the ideal voice for Carmen. A 'Carmen' in San Francisco breaks down barriers 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s a gift for cinephiles, to be sure — it will arrive in theaters on Nov. 1, on Netflix Nov. 27 — but also a somber acknowledgment of limitations. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z During that first online rehearsal, the mood was giddy and somber by turns. Hot Vax Summer? Falstaff and Shakespeare in the Park Are Ready. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Here, the kills were exaggerated to turn this expression of 20th-century angst into something celebratory instead of somber. Why I love the shameless, gory, Nazi-killing catharsis of Amazon's Hunters 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Ruffalo's deadpan style of acting, as humorous as it was somber, made it hard for me to imagine another actor in the part. Three bright performances on Broadway: Nathan Lane, Michael Cera and Alex Sharp 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z The tour design is not a mind-blowing change, according to many reports from the tour, yet it’s notably altered, right down to the more somber tone of the acting. Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z “This is the thing about brands and beauty: They cannot be randomly claimed,” Penn intones in a somber whiskey-and-cigarettes voice. What exactly is Sean Penn’s role in the mysterious ‘Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff’? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Outside the museum, a bittersweet scene featured both somber remembrance and celebratory carnival. Aretha Franklin’s Fans Say Goodbye, With Tears and Dance Moves 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z One — sunny yellow, vibrant and standing alone — is Vincent's surrogate; the other — brooding, somber and nocturnal — is Paul Gauguin's. Hammer's 'Gridwork' plots Charles Gaines' captivating process 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z These paintings suggest both William Blake and Walt Disney; some are somber, serious things, but many convey a kind of muffled laughter. How Alasdair Gray Reimagined Glasgow 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z It’s a conceit that requires the two actors to click in a particular way, humorously but leaving room for high action and occasionally somber moments. Review: ‘Lethal Weapon’ and ‘MacGyver,’ 2 ’80s Reboots, 1 With Chemistry 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z First, though, in order for “Sisters” to become a comedy rather than the somber little indie melodrama it may secretly want to be, Kate and Maura have to hold one last big bash. Review: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey Come Home in ‘Sisters’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The work begins and ends with a horizontal tableau, with dancers slumped to support one another; this somber mood of near-dejection pervades. Review: Scottish Ballet Finds the Poetry in ... Poetry 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z |
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