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Sombre in sentence

97 examples of Sombre in a sentence

The problem with Kronk's New Groove I find is that everything that made the first movie a fun great ride is replaced with a more sad and sombre film.
Then the disappointingly sombre talkie "The Scarlet Letter".
This is a sombre movie and the ending though sad, shows reconciliation between the father and daughter.
I would choose a word like "sombre," sometimes even "depressing."
Rather than acting out the massive intensity with which Larkin felt, the use of his words themselves give a better insight into plot and add a much more sombre but altogether more fascinating atmosphere.
What he got was the sci fi equivalent of a drunken student audience, and after a "serious" anime movie, I think it was "sky blue", the audience was in a sombre mood, and then this movie opened and within seconds everyone in the room was rolling in the isles.
While Nora's story is played straight and is sombre in tone, Ismael's is played mainly for laughs, although it's not particularly funny.
The performances were excellent, but how much of that dark, sombre, uninspired, stuff can you take?
The music and Laurence Olivier's sombre delivery set the tone perfectly for this outstanding documentary.
The post-War mood of sombre brooding is ending, things are lightening up a bit, and crime and corruption are no longer seen as an intrusive Dark Hand of Doom but as eruptions into daily life of natural human impulses of greed, lust, and evil, which are as spontaneous as barbecues are in summer in Texas.
It is a light work with some sombre undertones from the military setting: we are after all in the summer of 1914, and the gallant young officers will soon be facing the terrors of the Great War.
The first has a clever climax; while the second deals with complex issues in a sombre way, leaving the third to close this dynamic in its own unique fashion.
Obviously, no one really loves anyone in this sombre dismal performance.
Director Archie Mayo does a fine job in the film noir style creating dark, shadowy and sombre moments.
Yes, this treatment of the different class systems seems rather trite at first, but the complexities of the characters are mapped through until the sombre end, which is a refreshing change from the feel-good nonsense made by Disney et al.
Francois Ozon's film 'Under The Sand' has a dark, sombre scenario.
There was a pause, during which Vronsky, since he had to look at something, looked at Levin: at his feet, his uniform; and then his face, and noticing the sombre eyes fixed upon him he remarked, just to say something:'And how is it that you, living constantly in the country; are not a Justice of the Peace?
However, he attentively followed the slightest gestures of Maheu, whose sombre profile was seen against the glimmer of the lamps.
The closed horizon was bursting out; a gap of light was opening in the sombre lives of these poor people.
And besides, he could not understand; the instincts of his race refused to accept this sombre dream of the extermination of the world, mown level like a rye-field.
And in this burst of hope, in this gallop of big boots sounding over the pavement of the streets, there was something else also, something sombre and fierce, a gust of violence which would inflame the settlements in the four corners of the country.
The calcined rocks, of a sombre red, were covered by an efflorescence of alum as by a leprosy.
The gallop of the gendarmes heavily approached; they came up in an indistinguishable sombre mass.
Then Maheude noticed that Maheu was standing behind with empty hands and sombre air.
But in the vast and still sombre hall, feebly lighted up by the exhausted lanterns, he could perceive no friendly face.
They were all love, lovers, sweethearts, persecuted ladies fainting in lonely pavilions, postilions killed at every stage, horses ridden to death on every page, sombre forests, heartaches, vows, sobs, tears and kisses, little skiffs by moonlight, nightingales in shady groves, "gentlemen" brave as lions, gentle as lambs, virtuous as no one ever was, always well dressed, and weeping like fountains.
Several citizens had scoured their houses the evening before; tri-coloured flags hung from half-open windows; all the public-houses were full; and in the lovely weather the starched caps, the golden crosses, and the coloured neckerchiefs seemed whiter than snow, shone in the sun, and relieved with the motley colours the sombre monotony of the frock-coats and blue smocks.
The tenderness of the old days came back to their hearts, full and silent as the flowing river, with the softness of the perfume of the syringas, and threw across their memories shadows more immense and more sombre than those of the still willows that lengthened out over the grass.
The sky was sombre, and a little snow was falling.
There was at last a moment when Charles, full of a sombre fury, fixed his eyes on Rodolphe, who, in something of fear, stopped talking.
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