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"sombre" Definitions
  1. dark in colour synonym drab
  2. sad and serious synonym melancholy
"sombre" Antonyms
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Pourquoi cette vision si sombre de l'avenir de l'Europe ?
Scanner Sombre will be available on Steam come April 26.
But in Paydari's campaign office, the mood is more sombre.
His expression and tone are soft, humble and generally sombre.
But in Cambodia, the date marks something much more sombre.
But when they lose, a sombre skull appears signifying their simulated fate.
U.S.-China trade tensions also added to the sombre mood in markets.
This sombre reality is balanced by tender banter between Qaiser and Saba.
And Fallon, no longer sombre, was all giddy again in the intro.
"I thought it would be more sombre, ritualistic, and dull," she told VICE.
Instead, it maintains a sombre pace, like a mourner in a funeral cortège.
Almost all the scratchy beauté sombre images depict devaluation of place and image.
One was a bomb defusing game called Wrong Wire, the other Scanner Sombre.
For Delay, that difference was what made Scanner Sombre so much more appealing.
Hand raised, expression sombre, he reads a pledge to administer his café wisely.
This year, however, it is difficult to escape a very' sombre national mood.
Recently, when we passed it, her sister Cecelia, who was driving, became sombre.
The sombre mood in global markets hit Dubai's index , which retreated 1.1 percent.
The result is at once lively and sombre, funny and philosophical, bleak and buoyant.
He says the choice to wear a sombre, dark green colour was also deliberate.
A very sombre Stephen Colbert responded to Pittsburgh's synagogue shooting on The Late Show Monday.
The mood in Barcelona is sombre but calm, although the city remains on high alert.
Against this sombre background, he said, "history will judge" whether the right decisions were taken.
A year later spirits are sombre as the recovery flags, stockmarkets languish and deflation returns.
On Instagram, people are leaving sombre posts of flags flown at half mast on Tuesday.
Trump's restrictions, announced in a sombre Oval Office address on Wednesday, are almost without precedent.
In the parquet-floored salons of Paris, conversation readily turns to such sombre parts of history.
In many cultures, pulling out a camera at such a sombre occasion is widely frowned upon.
Crestfallen, Williams's post-match news conference wrapped up quickly, with short responses and a sombre monotone.
But any constitutional law buff can tell you that royal faith has its sombre moments too.
"The sombre Victorian funeral is slowly being replaced by more upbeat personal celebrations," says Mr Cox.
His suggestions transformed "Please Please Me" from a slow, sombre song into a number-one hit.
The mood was sombre also in the Gulf as oil's decline saw stocks extending Wednesday's falls.
There are, however, hints that the ecstatic celebrations were eventually followed by something far more sombre.
So you've installed Apple's macOS Mojave, you're fired up Dark Mode, you're admiring its sombre beauty.
In sombre tones, dignitaries spoke of the resurgence of anti-Semitism and pledged to combat it.
In sombre tones, dignitaries spoke of the resurgence of anti-Semitism and pledged to combat it.
European shares opened flat to weaker, unable to shake off the sombre mood in Asian trading.
Not that "Logan" is as profound as its sombre tone and "Hamlet"-rivalling body count would imply.
A stream of harp (Bridget Kibbey) lent a mystical vibe to "Sombre," settings of Ezra Pound cantos.
Thunberg's terse and sombre monotone makes tangible the emotional significance of the deepening crisis facing her generation.
Asia saw a sombre session, with MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan falling 1.1%.
Many ideas swirled about; few cohered, yet the sombre strangeness of the concept somehow hit the mark.
Image via Sombre Lidar — Meetingbird – Team-wide meeting scheduling optimization Having scattered meetings throughout the day destroys productivity.
Monday's Jimmy Kimmel Live opening monologue was a far more sombre experience than usual — for a serious reason.
But Gem's tasting-menu format, with its sombre, methodical coursing, can feel refined to the point of sanctimony.
He spoke slowly, with a certain sombre attention, like a kindergarten teacher explaining the tragic facts of life.
Its eerie, sombre power is more a product of what it doesn't explain than of what it does.
I'd been taken aback, seeing him, his still face so sombre in repose, with a slightly grayish tinge.
Saoirse Ronan went for a classic princess-style ballgown, but gave it a more sombre feel in black.
We could hear the gentle clanging of dishes and sombre talk, broken by the occasional giggling of children.
Scanner Sombre, the newest game from Prison Architect developer Introversion Software, takes place in a world you can't see.
It's hard to conceive of a more sombre theme, so why are we leafing through a children's picture book?
The other takes place on a dirt-covered stage, a sombre setting for a hair-raising ritual of immolation.
The oil services company kicks off what is forecast to be a sombre earnings season for US energy companies.
While hilarity ensues, the film demonstrates the power of cinema to provide commentary to very sombre issues, like war.
"It is difficult to escape a very sombre national mood," Elizabeth said in a message on her official birthday.
White tablecloths and stiff lace curtains—this was a part of the country where sombre stood in for formal.
After a sombre start to 26, the benchmark rallied 2426.57 percent last week, the largest weekly gain since October.
Asia had earlier endured a sombre session, with MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan falling 1.1%.
The mood in share markets was sombre with MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan off 297.886%.
China data showing factory activity shrank for the third month in a row in July added to the sombre mood.
Driving the news: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addressed the sombre, but sprawling crowd, which welcomed her with a standing ovation.
His administration issued photos of the president looking sombre as he was briefed on the crisis in the Situation Room.
It is here The Economist : Nous avons tous été frappés par le ton très sombre de votre discours aux ambassadeurs.
Just after sunset, the writer-director Peter Landesman sat on a bench in Battery Park, staring at a sombre sculpture.
But the video is striking and sombre when we are introduced to plastic and, importantly, Shraya wrapped in that plastic.
But he "was largely absent during the sombre days that followed the earthquake", noted Alejandro Schtulmann at Empra, a consultancy.
On August 7, 1974, a trio of Republican politicians made a sombre journey from Capitol Hill to the White House.
She has achieved, however, something more than a sombre memorial to death and destruction—a crowded genre in modern opera.
The second half included tracks such as "Jess Song," a slow, sombre melody about losing a friend unexpectedly to cancer.
Although the music felt distant from Richter's images—simple and sombre set against bright and busy—the experience enigmatically cohered.
"This is going to be really divisive and sad news for people," a sombre presenter warned before launching into his report.
According to lead designer Chris Delay, the idea for Scanner Sombre started forming in 2008 — and it began with a look.
Bravely Boyle has made a mostly sombre film about how 40something lives work out and it's well observed and well-acted.
Spreadbetters saw sentiment remaining sombre in the European session, forecasting a lower open for Britain's FTSE, Germany's DAX and France's CAC.
But when another voice came on, this one deeper and carrying a more sombre tone, Rina's smile turned into a frown.
It goes on for nine or ten minutes, in an irresistible sombre rhythm, a dance of death that all must join.
The two giants typically make brash marketing claims at air shows but this year's event is expected to be relatively sombre.
The Picasso, from the cheery rose period of 1904-06 that followed his more sombre blue period, is estimated to fetch $100m.
On Brussels' Place de la Bourse, where locals gathered after the attacks to light candles and lay flowers, the mood was sombre.
"Sea Wall/A Life," a double bill of sombre one-act monologues, transfers from the Public to Broadway's Hudson Theatre (July 26).
They were sombre, hollowed out, some fighting tears, humiliated by the defeat, fearful of autocracy's moving vans pulling up to the door.
In the book's final pages, a sombre photo essay shows Thwaites clambering toward a Swiss mountain peak, alone, in his goat suit.
The French have cast aside the insipid and the showy, the sanguine and the sombre, old-timers on the left and the right.
"In the Bleak Midwinter" is rather different; sombre and earnest in tone, it offers up themes of hope and strife in equal measure.
When she's not cooking, she often watches shows like " Chef's Table ," the sumptuously produced Netflix series featuring sombre, admiring portraits of culinary stars.
Documentaries can and should engage in that dispute, but no feature film, however sombre and responsible, could begin to dramatize such boundless suffering.
Still, the word seemed fitting for the man—a tall, sombre Californian who appeared ever aware of the burdens imposed by his station.
Perishable Tactics is a sombre, melancholy affair, that drifts and dips, the musical equivalent of headlights peeking in and out of thick fog.
A voice-over by Benji made sombre assurances that this movie would be unlike any other, would explore a new kind of filmmaking.
The most fleshed-out of the album's sombre subjects is the weary husband in "Darling Lorraine", whose resentment disappears when his wife becomes ill.
On November 24th the president and the guerrillas' leader, Rodrigo "Timochenko" Londoño, signed it in a sombre ceremony at a small theatre in Bogotá.
Mirroring the first 2015 outing, we've made a return to the irreverent approach, but with no less sombre a message in our accompanying pieces.
The demand for black clothes is so great that impromptu dyeing shops have sprung up, offering to turn brighter garments into something suitably sombre.
The characters are fun: Anthony Rapp's dry Lt. Stamets, Doug Jones' sombre Saru, and Mary Wiseman's always enthusiastic Tilly remain the show's unsung MVPs.
A sombre Lee, the 49-year-old heir to one of the world's biggest corporate empires, was led back to detention after his sentence.
Much like the source material it parodies, Jurassic Wood ends with some sombre reflections about the hubris of genetically hybridizing dinosaurs with other animals.
They left a more enduring monument too: a sombre stone church with a charmingly incongruous Tibetan-style roof that sweeps skyward at its edges.
As schoolchildren on bicycles, young parents and elderly rushed in to savour the atmosphere, a sombre mood gave way to something approaching good cheer.
On March 12th, in offering his assessment of the violent clashes between supporters of Donald Trump and protesters, the president struck a sombre tone.
Even the more sombre numbers, the kind Sivan struggles to distance himself from, are about learning to embrace the flaws of those you love.
Formula One held a minute's silence in memory of Hubert on the grid before the race and a sombre mood hung over the paddock.
All three films could be hung in a gallery of sombre portraits of ailing, ageing tough guys whose past glories were never all that glorious.
So it was each time Gulliver visited Ataturk until September, when his stopover to east Africa and back took on a more sombre, desolate tone.
But he also spoke about how challenging life satisfaction was for an artist whose knee-jerk reaction is to dwell on the sombre and melancholy.
The "BAM" sculptures had names like "For Michael" and "For Sandra"—as in Brown and Bland—and they were praised by critics in sombre terms.
The set designer George Tsypin contributes a tableau of columnar Plexiglas forms; James Ingalls's lighting lends sombre majesty to the cavernous space of the Felsenreitschule.
On April 10th, when Zuckerberg arrived at the Senate hearing , he wore a sombre blue suit, and took a seat before more than forty senators.
Davið Oddsson, with swept-back silver-gray hair and a sombre expression, looked, I thought, too censorious, like a Norwegian playwright of the nineteenth century.
"Tonight's results have not been satisfactory for us, we expected more," Pablo Iglesias, the pony-tailed academic who leads Podemos, told a sombre crowd of supporters.
SOMBRE DEFEAT Voters on Saturday cast their ballots for Morrison's message of support to aspirational voters and turned their back on Labor leader Bill Shorten's reforms.
The longer-term outlook for the crude market remained sombre, however, with OPEC on Friday providing a bearish outlook for oil for the rest of 2019.
"We should say goodbye to 2018 on a sombre note, with not much volatility," said Gaurang Shah, senior vice president at Geojit Financial Services in Mumbai.
Spencer Madrie, owner of the Ol' Curiosities & Book Shoppe dedicated to the work of Lee and other Southern authors, said Monroeville was in a sombre mood.
The market has been weighed by the yen's recent appreciation and a drop by crude oil prices to three-month lows adding to the sombre mood.
On my first visit to Malta two years ago, three months after the journalist's assassination, the monthly vigils commemorating her death were sparsely attended, sombre affairs.
The display is minimalistic, sombre, and evidently conceived to enhance the intensity of viewing, but this uncluttered design comes at the expense of clear wall text.
"I feel very sorry for causing concerns for many people," a sombre Lee said, bowing his head and walking into the court as anti-Samsung protesters jeered.
Like Rashad, Earl also plays with sombre, longing themes masquerading as party jams, and his affinity for samples and deep basslines makes him an artist-to-watch.
This English translation was made by The Economist The Economist: We were all struck by the very sombre tone of your recent speech at the ambassadors' conference.
But in its density and its slowness it adds a kind of sombre, almost Proustian counterpoint to what might otherwise be just a fleeting procession of events.
Yet now, summoning his strength and gathering his obsessions together like old friends, he brings forth "Pain and Glory," one of his richest and most sombre films.
That an author famous for slick, stylish evocation of drug-addled youth has evolved into a restrained, almost sombre chronicler of professional-class ennui may seem surprising.
And it's children going to class again in the southern Russian town of Beslan, even if the school where terrorists killed hundreds in 2004 remains a sombre memorial.
But traders said the mood in industrial metals markets was sombre as consumers and producers waited to see how demand would respond over the coming weeks and months.
The New York Philharmonic sounds a sombre note in John Corigliano's Symphony No. 218, his anguished response to the epochal trauma of AIDS (May 26 and June 215).
Light pours in from an unseen source to the left, casting sombre shadows, illuminating an open Torah and glinting, here and there, on iridescent fabric or reflective metal.
In the Shi'ite Turkmen neighbourhood of Tis'een, the streets were largely empty, save for a few black flags marking the sombre month of Muharram observed by Shi'ite Muslims.
Traders said the mood, however, in industrial metals markets remains sombre as consumers and producers wait to see how demand holds up over the coming weeks and months.
"I feel very sorry for causing concerns for many people," a sombre Lee said, bowing his head and walking into the Seoul High Court as anti-Samsung protesters jeered.
Celebrations in Germany took on a sombre note when police warned of a possible terror attack and evacuated two train stations in Munich an hour before midnight on Thursday.
Global equity markets, however, are more sombre; MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan has edged down 0.3 percent and Wall Street closed near flat on Wednesday.
In his film Sombre (1998) for example, a shot of the woods taken from a speeding train, through editing, morphs into the main character's hair blowing in the wind.
The final episode of Great British Bake Off, the nation's favourite show, is almost here and for a past winner, Nadiya Hussain, this is a time for sombre reflection.
Annie's husband, Steve, may have troubles, too (weighty ones, given that he's played by the ever-sombre Gabriel Byrne), but, in his case, the movie chooses not to pry.
In Alcott's pages I escaped from my rather dysfunctional family and my grandfather's sombre house, where I spent most of my childhood, and lived with the loving March family.
The 38-day campaign ended on a sombre note with the death on Thursday of the widely popular Labor stalwart Bob Hawke, who was prime minister from 1983 to 1991.
IN AN empty bull ring in Quito, Ecuador, man after man steps forward, his face sombre, to read a letter by an anonymous woman describing her experience of sexual violence.
The two country singers strip Soundgarden's Superunknown classic down to nothing more than a piano and two voices, trading off verses and drawing every sombre, apocalyptic drop from Cornell's lyrics.
Also touring are Irish girl group B*Witched, English dance-pop outfit Atomic Kitten, and the sombre-sounding S Club 303 (originally 7, but four members couldn't make the tour).
Following a sombre press conference in which Barlow said, "From today Take That is no more," the Samaritans set up hotlines to help counsel grieving young women through their grief.
The sad news of his passing was a sombre moment in an otherwise celebratory event, with fans, officials and competitors alike basking in the afterglow of an improbably excellent fortnight.
"Painting" is a bit sombre, for him, but it has the ineffably friendly air of nearly all his art: adventurous but easy-looking, an eager gift to vision and imagination.
Occasionally, I'd see some of them looking pensively at Nunez, this font of bizarre surprises, gazing at his sombre, impassive face, as if by staring they might unlock its secrets.
We get an Ennio Morricone score—sadly, no match for "Once Upon a Time in the West," where his musical glories washed in sadness against Leone's array of sombre deeds.
In this sombre autobiographical novel by a Nobel laureate, an aging writer who has long been plagued by dreams about the night his father drowned returns to his childhood village.
And yet the effect is never parodic—when Keating sings a line such as "Do the wine like it's happy hour," he's sombre and worshipful enough to avoid sounding silly.
Although Mourad mentions hope in his artist statement, he notes that this hope is located not in his sombre, dramatic works but, rather, in those who choose to see them.
For those who haven't heard it, Mac's new one is a relatively chill and sombre affair yet also simultaneously offers upbeat respite, like sunshine through the window on a gloomy morning.
Though it finishes on a more sombre note, Ms Hardt's book, "Sex in the Sea", starts as a voyeuristic romp ("Oceanic Orgies: Getting It On in Groups" is one chapter title).
"Patrias" tells his story through flamenco dance and searing songs; images of the war and of the poet are screened onto the back of the stage as the sombre performance unfolds.
"China delivered a massive deflationary shock in its factories, providing a sombre tone towards the fragile state of the global economy," Samuel Siew, analyst at Phillip Futures, said in a note.
While some Instagram users praised the designer's garment, others expressed their anger over the post, saying that it was "disrespectful" for her to promote her clothing on such a sombre occasion.
The Watergate scandal that felled Nixon is presented in a side-gallery filled with sombre black, red and grey panels bearing labels like "Dirty Tricks and Political Espionage" and "Obstruction of Justice".
Hal's pacifism is partly inspired by Falstaff (reimagined by Joel Edgerton, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Mr Michôd), a sombre veteran of various wars, who drinks to forget past trauma.
The mood had been sombre; this was just two weeks after the death of scientist David Kelly during the row over the government's claims about Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction.
But the plaintive notes of gospel music drifting from speakers and the black bunting draped over a balcony of the building at the center of the activities indicated a more sombre occasion.
And he reveals that Sautet, during the shooting of the sombre "Classe Tous Risques" (1960), sat with his leading man, Lino Ventura, during meals, to insure that he didn't eat too much.
At DakAkker urban farm, more than 20 meters (65 feet) above ground, wild flowers jostle for space with herbs, vegetables and fruit trees, lightening the sombre cityscape with a riot of color.
It could have been a sombre moment in the film, but lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya brilliantly turns it around by injecting wry, rustic humour that is sure to make the grumpiest audience chuckle.
Indeed, despite the gains in April and May annual growth in retail sales still slowed to a sombre 2.5 percent, well below the 13 percent-plus that used to be considered commonplace.
The mourning afterIn a statement read on television Prayuth Chan-Ocha, the junta leader, declared a mourning period of one year, during which time civil servants will be expected to wear sombre clothes.
They prefer shrouds and woodland burials to coffins and graveyards; celebrations of life to sombre rituals in funeral homes; and video tributes to a life just lost to displays of the embalmed dead.
Meanwhile data showing growth in China's manufacturing sector slowed more than expected in July thanks to the worsening trade dispute with Washington, bad weather and weaker domestic demand added to the sombre mood.
These songs are unapologetically organic and a natural output driven from the bleaker side of the human condition, drawing from a sombre palette yet leaving a charging triumphant mark on the exit wound.
Shoeless and sitting with her cello in a dimly lit room with simple projections of smoke behind, her sombre yet beautiful music felt relaxing, freeing and a welcome break from all the partying.
A footman will pin a notice to the Buckingham Palace gates and its website will be "transformed into a sombre, single page, showing the same text on a dark background," reported The Guardian.
"There's definitely an increasing risk this will go on for much longer than people were hoping," said SEB's Hammarlund, adding that a moderating growth outlook for emerging economies added to the sombre sentiment.
Bucking the sombre mood, Fujifilm Holdings jumped 2.8% to hit a record high following a media report that Japan is considering using anti-flu drug Avigan, manufactured by its subsidiary, to treat coronavirus.
Gone are the sombre guitars and neatly timed melodic bridges, replaced instead with a revved-up menagerie of analogue synths and arpeggiators, trained to aim precisely and exclusively for the listener's dopamine receptors.
Despite the sombre outlook for economic growth and government borrowing, Hammond announced on Wednesday some spending steps aimed at winning back voters, in particular abolishing a property tax for most first-time home-buyers.
Youthful energy turned quickly to sombre remembrance outside a high school on Manhattan's Lower East Side, as 17 students took turns standing on a chair to announce the name and age of a victim.
In a sombre address to the nation, Macron said that from Tuesday midday (1100 GMT) people should stay at home unless it was to buy groceries, travel to work, exercise or for medical care.
Introversion first showed off Scanner Sombre as a prototype last year, and today the studio is announcing that not only is the idea being turned into a full-fledged game, it's also launching very soon.
It's rather a different challenge technically, as well; normally first-person games rely on complex polygonal structures and texture maps to create scenes, but Scanner Sombre imitates the lidar style of point clouds very closely.
The only family member who is really upset is Peter's freakily sombre 13-year-old sister (Milly Shapiro), who was a little too close to her grandmother for comfort—certainly too close for Annie's comfort.
Moments later, as the ceremony began, the names of the 43 victims were read aloud, moving some relatives to tears as Prime Minister Conte and populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini stood among sombre-faced dignitaries.
Dead Congregation is a band rooted in perfectionism; releases manifest when they manifest, and seeing even just an EP like Sombre Doom appear so soon after a full-length is almost unheard-of for them.
"2100", which features vocals from Roc Nation artist Boots who previously appeared on Run The Jewels 2, is a sombre but palpably angry call to arms for all those left reeling by yesterday's election result.
The sombre readings provide the first official snapshot of the state of the Chinese economy since the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic which has killed almost 3,000 people in mainland China and infected about 80,000.
The backdrop for world markets remained sombre, however, as the United States revived trade war fears with an announcement that it would press ahead with tariffs and restrictions on Chinese investments, and Beijing threatened to retaliate.
Without being too sombre, the three speakers also set out to hone their listeners' sensitivities, by challenging them to remember times when they felt close to the divine, and encouraging them to use simple spiritual exercises.
As well as the 30 paintings on display, visitors can enjoy his beautiful and sombre poems and listen to his songs (Bob Dylan, one of Cannon's musical influences, also appears as the subject of a portrait).
While the timing of the Lunar New Year made it difficult to draw a true signal from the China data noise, the scale was alarming, especially when coupled with sombre new data from Germany and Norway.
POLITICAL HOSTILITIES SUSPENDED Politicians suspended hostilities for the commemoration, which began with the names of the victims read aloud, moving some relatives to tears as Conte and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini stood among sombre-faced dignitaries.
A pan-African idea that has been part of the continent's history since independence will not be successful until governments, regional bodies and the African Union get sombre about lowering the costs of moving goods and people.
Privately built with donations from ordinary midwestern citizens, the sombre monument revealed a country unashamed of its growing wealth and global influence, but at the same time "not infatuated with any vision of empire", the president declared.
Basically, the whole thing could have been an extremely sombre affair after May's horrific events, but instead everyone banded together for a courageous, energetic, and uplifting celebration of pop's enduring power, and all for a good cause.
It is trying to be both a goofy popcorn movie about a superheroine and a moody drama about an abuse survivor, and the results are too sombre to laugh along with yet too daft to take seriously.
At the start of the ceremony, names of the dead were read aloud, moving some to tears as sombre-faced politicians, including Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, and populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini stood in the front row.
You couldn't say of Bernstein, as you might of John Cheever (as revealed in his daughter Susan Cheever's sombre, brilliant book, " Home Before Dark "), that he was unreachable at times, or that his art absolutely came first.
TOKYO, March 11 (Reuters) - Japan marked the sombre nine-year anniversary of devastating natural disasters and a nuclear accident on Wednesday as official commemorations and vigils were canceled because of fears over the spread of the coronavirus.
As for the last-minute twist, a Shyamalan trademark, it will appeal solely to people who saw a particular Shyamalan film, years ago, in the days when he told sombre, grownup stories about guttering marriages and loss.
Here, as the Professor, with his sombre suits and his clinician's coats, his stiffness remains intact until he is accosted by the paintings, whereupon he shies away, folding into himself, and crumples like a man made of paper.
It is against this sombre backdrop that the Afghan government sought to convince foreign aid-donors at this week's conference hosted by the European Union that in some areas, particularly in the fight against corruption, progress is being made.
Najib, in a viral video last month, crooned a Malay-language version of the 1970s hit 'Kiss and Say Goodbye,' surrounded by a chorus of sombre young singers, criticising Mahathir's coalition for failing to live up to election promises.
While the timing of the Lunar New Year made it difficult to draw a true signal from the China data noise, the scale of the drop was alarming, especially when coupled with sombre new data from Germany and Norway.
Although Mr. Sellars had staged "Hagoromo" in the 1980s, and Ms. Saariaho set two of Pound's austere "Cantos" in her chamber piece "Sombre," their earlier stage works, like "L'Amour de Loin" and "La Passion de Simone," focused on women.
Macron made the bold attack on Kremlin-backed media outlets while standing right next to a sombre Putin — vocally criticizing the Russian state in a way that almost no other world leader, including Donald Trump, has chosen to do.
In a televised address, a sombre Mattarella said he was not to blame for the impasse, adding that he had proposed alternatives for the key economy ministry position, but his suggestions had been spurned by 5-Star and the League.
Boeing had opened the show on a sombre note and suffered a further setback when General Electric disclosed a delay of months in supplying engines for the new 777X at the start of the show due to a component flaw.
Despite the sombre start, officials from both sides say a draft accord had already been sketched out ahead of the meeting, but crucial obstacles remained ahead of a deal to halt the latest battle in Syria's ruinous eight-year civil war.
He's trying to find out why some of my work is sombre in tone, shall we say, and he's trying for some simple explanation of that in me or in my life, rather than in the society that I am portraying.
After a turbulent three months which has seen Britain scarred by three deadly Islamist militant attacks and now the tower blaze, Queen Elizabeth said the mood was deeply sombre but that the British people were resolute in the face of adversity.
"Lingering violence is damaging the very foundations of our society, especially the rule of law," a sombre Lam said as she sat wearing a navy blue jacket and pink shirt with her hands folded on a desk in front of her.
" Martyn offers a sombre agreement, "I think, on the DJ circuit, you do a couple of rounds when you're younger, and then you make a decision: either stay and get stuck in that loop or ask for something else, something more.
During a live telecast of their weekly variety show SMAPXSMAP, all five members — who are currently in their thirties and forties — dressed in sombre black suits, took the stage to apologise for causing any concerns and confirmed that they were not breaking up.
"I am aware today of the risk that going down a route that would not gather sufficient support would entail, so I have decided not to be a candidate in the presidential election," a sombre-looking Hollande said in a televised address.
The IAG deal marked a psychological turning point for the five-decade-old 737 series though Boeing avoided wading into the traditional ding-dong with Airbus over who won the show, as it strikes a more sombre tone than usual following the crashes.
LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - The yield of Britain's benchmark 10-year government bonds hit another record low on Monday as a batch of data painting a sombre outlook for the British economy sent investors scrambling for safe-haven assets such as gilts.
The U.S. currency rose to a six-week high of 108.990 yen last week but slid after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell set the stage for a rate cut later this month by giving a sombre outlook on the world's largest economy.
SEOUL, March 23 (Reuters) - A South Korean ferry that sank nearly three years ago, killing 304 people, most of them children on a school trip, slowly emerged from a grey sea on Thursday, a sombre reminder of a tragedy that traumatised the country.
Boeing had opened the show on a sombre note and suffered a further setback when General Electric disclosed a delay of months in supplying engines for the new 777X wide-body aircraft at the start of the show due to a component flaw.
In contrast, the opening of Helsinki's Amos Rex museum at the end of August this year felt more sombre, abetted by skies the color of slate and a light Finnish drizzle that, if you were wearing glasses, made it difficult to see.
Despite the sombre nature of the meeting, held in a convention centre in downtown Tokyo, a chamber orchestra played a tango in honour of the Argentinian-born pope to greet him as he walked in and he later thanked them for it.
The seating chart is the purview of the White House Correspondents' Association, an independent board of journalists who, with the sombre secrecy of a papal conclave, assess news organizations according to factors such as regularity of coverage and centrality to the national discourse.
Together with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, a sombre Merkel toured the camp's crematorium where victims' bodies were burned, before walking through the camp's iron gate bearing the motto "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) and visiting the camp's brick barracks.
For "Surprise," from 2006, he recruited Brian Eno to compose a "sonic landscape" that uplifted a rather sombre set of songs, although he appended a new fan favorite: "Father and Daughter," from the soundtrack to "The Wild Thornberrys Movie," an animated feature.
The ceremony in a medieval chapel at Windsor Castle blended ancient English ritual with African American culture, breaking with tradition, in particular the passionate sermon of U.S. Episcopalian bishop Michael Bruce Curry that was far removed from the sombre tones of the Church of England.
On March 8th, the 62-year-old man less well known as Terry Bollea, clad in sombre black on a Florida witness stand, said he was "completely humiliated" by a video published in 2012 by Gawker, a media company that trades in celebrity gossip.
Sombre U.S. retail sales fanned concerns of slowing economic momentum in the world's largest economy, while an unexpected increase in the number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits last week and a second straight monthly decline in producer prices in January dimmed investor sentiment.
CHANG NAA stands up on the prow of his narrow wooden canoe and casts a small net into the water under the watchful eyes of his son Chang Thung, a four-year-old as solid and sombre as his father is lithe and placid.
If traditional Southeast Asian eateries are personified in the sombre silhouette of the late Thai king, the Lucky Bee is the spirited progeny of Nicki Minaj (with a penchant for pink and bold prints) and Grace Jones (to whom the bathroom décor pays assiduous homage).
The shift came after a long and focused process of searching and experimenting with paint, form and composition, which had begun when he was still in his teens and living in his native Netherlands, where the reigning genre was sombre landscape paintings dotted with cows and windmills.
But after she and Bette boarded a bus back to San Francisco, where they were staying in a hotel, she looked out the window at the twilight stealing over the folds of the valley, and her mood became sombre: now it really was the night before.
With schools, universities and museums closed, and cafes forced to shut early for almost two weeks, the mood in Italy's financial capital is sombre, as it sits just 60 kilometres (20213 miles) from the epicentre of the outbreak, where 11 towns are sealed from the outside world.
In sweltering heat he stood straight-backed and sombre-featured at a ceremony in the old Byzantine cathedral, at a wreath-laying at a statue of Emmanouel Pappas, a leader of the Greek war of independence, and at a parade of soldiers and schoolchildren on the town's main drag.
The styles vary wildly in mood and tone from the hot orange flesh of Spencer in domestic nude studies, to sombre Sickert interiors in grim Camden, and the brilliant seedy red of Soutine's bell boys from the underbelly of Parisian hotels, each thematically distinguished by the artists' personal situation.
VENICE, Italy, (Reuters) - Set somewhere in rural eastern Europe towards the end of World War Two, "The Painted Bird" is a sombre tale of a young boy trying to survive a harsh wilderness and the cruelty of strangers, and is described by one of its stars as "timeless".
VENICE, Italy, (Reuters) - Set somewhere in rural eastern Europe towards the end of World War Two, "The Painted Bird" is a sombre tale of a young boy trying to survive a harsh wilderness and the cruelty of strangers, and is described by one of its stars as "timeless".
There is a bookshop, an art tent where you can stencil the Extinction Rebellion logo onto your clothes, a drum circle, a hula circle, groups of people singing and two platforms where amplified voices speak in sombre and stirring tones to the crowds about what is at stake.
He achieved the unintrusive effect—and sombre tone—he wanted, but, in seeking to correct what he perhaps considered the bossiness of his previous novel, "Concluding" (1948), which used interior monologue and précis, he overlooked the innovations of his earlier works, which had found their own ways of avoiding authorial omniscience.
Beyond its potent and topical political agenda, Rakowitz's sculpture is more lively and engaging an object than a previous, sombre attempt to highlight the destruction of artifacts: in 2016, a 3D-printed replica of the ISIS-destroyed Arch of Triumph in Palmyra, Syria, was temporarily on show in Trafalgar Square.
This year, however, she noted in a statement that England's national mood is much more "sombre" than usual, and goes on to share her feelings on the recent terrorist attacks in Manchester and London, and the fire at Grenfell Tower, a high-rise subsidized building that mainly housed refugees and low-incomes families.
Such massacres are common enough in America that there is a grim familiarity to the images of SWAT teams on suburban streets, the press briefings by police chiefs and mayors fighting back tears, makeshift shrines of candles and flowers and then—all too soon—the competing, sombre-yet-outraged statements by politicians.
The attack brought a sombre tone to what has often been an ill-natured election campaign, which is presenting voters with a stark choice - Labour's promise to raise taxes on the rich and businesses to fund a much expanded state or the Conservatives' pledge to "get Brexit done" and move onto other issues.
For the next few hours, we ate rounds of lobster tail in a tangy, buttery sauce of Sauternes, lime, and fresh ginger, on a bed of spinach; a ragout of periwinkles, briny as the sea; and slices of grilled, rosy-pink pigeon breast with olives, tomato, and lemon confit, in a rich, sombre sauce that haunted the tongue.
Last night, Dead Congregation—one of the world's finest purveyors of truly dark, uncompromising death metal—quietly released a new EP. Sombre Doom will be available for purchase on November 7 via the band's own Martyrdoom Productions​ and Norma Evangelium Diaboli, but for now, all 14 gloriously oppressive minutes are available for streaming via YouTube, of all places.
Though she knew well enough that it was the idea of him rather than the fact—the idea of a long, thin, sombre man, in a soak of noble depression, smelling of lentils, in a damp pebble-dash bungalow, amid a scrabble of the whitethorn trees, a man ragged in the province of Connaught and alone at all seasons, perhaps already betrothed to a glamorous early death, and under some especially mischievous arrayment of the stars he was all that a girl could ask for.

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