somberness

IPA: sˈɑmbɝnʌs

Examples of "somberness" in Sentences

As 2011 comes to an end, I feel a somberness lying heavy on the world.
Life might easily come to be sober to somberness, which is a thing unwholesome and undesirable.
He likened the mood of the waterfront park to visiting Pearl Harbor, where he was struck by the location's somberness.
There was a mix of somberness of and celebration near Ground Zero, where a new tower is rapidly becoming part of the city's skyline.
Suddenly the dreamseller put aside his somberness, changed to a more pleasant tone and climbed on top of an armchair beside him and called out:
The black hollow of its disused portal looked out from shadows which acquired some of their somberness from the tragic memories connected with its empty void.
"This Life is a Mist," the first track, starts the album off in a very mellow and transcending mood while evoking emotions of somberness, which is distinctly used to create an uprising of emotion throughout the rest of the album.
Like the set's jet-black New York City skyline, looming behind candy-colored, graffiti-textured rooms and streets, a strain of somberness runs through "Locomotion," the moving and extraordinarily well-acted children's production at the Kennedy Center Family Theater.