His mood changed suddenly, the somberness vanishing as if it had never been there.
The somberness of the church was relieved only by the wall-paintings.
I try to go from somberness to excitement.
Her style, so effective in bestowing layers of somberness and irony on explosive family scenes, serves her well whenever there is great suffering to be depicted.
There was a suggestion of somberness in her eyes as she looked down at him.
She was not discontented, save at the enforced somberness of their lives.
The landscape too has nothing of the seriousness and somberness of ours.