Voorbeelden van sombre

• Areas informs me that the king has just descended to the sombre shores.

• There are, of course, sombre lessons to be learned from these pages.

• It is remarkably poignant, sombre yet comforting, evocative of distant associations, yet not too explicit.

• Older people were instructed to behave in a dignified, sombre manner.

• What is intended to be a sombre expression may well provoke laughter among readers.

• Its patriotism was now more sombre and reflective, and tinged by class.

• The remaining players offer sombre chords, which cast occasional shadows across the cello line.

• Comic talents are seldom, if ever, given as much weight as merely sombre ones.

• A sombre sky illuminated by lightning announces the beginning of the deluge.

• The resonance felt in between the chord clusters evokes a sombre sense of silence and stillness, emanating from the lingering harmonies.

• But overall, this is a sympathetic (if ultimately rather sombre), insider's treatment, containing a mine of information.

• Her epilogue, again with the modern visitor realising the implacable nature of the weather, completes the narrative on a sombre note.

• Then comes the meat of the subject and finally a sombre look into the past and predictions for the future.

• Spouses, relatives and friends all begin to die off and some elderly survivors take a sombre glee in totting up the score.

• A denuded orchestral palette, with rattling percussion and sombre woodwind lines, is supported by an austere, pianissimo chord.