Sentences with phrase «somber mood of»

He mastered a technique characterized by compositional clarity, rich textural range, and skillful gradation of tones that reinforced the lonely, somber mood of many of his landscape prints, which generally included just one or two figures, if any.

The small multicolored stars in the sky behind this red tree have a lightbrite feel to them, challenging the otherwise somber mood of the piece.

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«While the mood is somber and our hearts go out to the victims of this senseless tragedy, the people of Las Vegas are united in strength and resilience,» Jay Weintraub and Caribou Honig, the founders of the annual event, said in a statement.

I somehow hoped this would inspire everyone around me to join in once they realized my bloodshot eyes and somber mood was just a reflection of how hard you needed to work for this thing.

The mood here in Dayton is somber, and I detect a curious mixture of resignation and desperation among conservative evangelicals.

Franklin's words spoken on the last day of the Constitutional Convention and quoted above express the somewhat somber mood.

Robert Heilbroner's An Inquiry into the Human Prospect (Norton, 1974) is representative of a certain somber mood that emerges when people reflect on the chances for our culture to overcome its myriad difficulties of population growth, of natural resource and environmental limitations, and of what Heilbroner refers to as the perplexing inability of our civilization to satisfy the human spirit.

The somber mood soon turned celebratory, though, with the earliest adoption of the city's budget in 15 years.

«Miles Davis, a famous jazz trumpet player, inspired other musicians to adopt a new sound which used a series of tones, also called a scale, that could evoke both somber and upbeat moods in a listener, called the Dorian scale.

«A famous jazz trumpet player inspired other musicians to adopt a new sound that used a special series of tones which evokes both somber and upbeat moods in a listener.

To keep it from being somber, I lightened the mood with some whimsical animal references, the lace bunny - ears headband, the teddy bear backpack, and always comforting is this furry find: a Davis of Boston late 60's era vintage faux fur coat with fake leather trim.

Like Lyne's other heavy - breathers, this one has glossy production values, a relentlessly somber mood and its share of sexual gymnastics.

Much of the story is somber, and indeed a melancholy mood clouds the action, though there is a single, laugh - out - loud hilarious scene when the three recall Vietnamese bordellos surround the American base, and penis jokes abound, particularly about Sal's phallus that was so rock hard in the whorehouse that he could scarcely move the rest of his body.

The mood of Mia Madre is a generally somber one, as the film focuses on a director, Margherita (Margherita Buy)-- loosely based on Moretti himself, except played by a woman — who is shooting her latest film while consumed by worries of her dying mother.

Though nearly all of Hunt's many accolades stem from her fine comedic chops, she keeps the mood fairly somber here.

The somber, resigned mood of the picture is also expressively captured by the photography of Larry Smith and in Patrick Cassidy's sonorously elegiac score.

The real star of the Metro games is that somber mood, the inveterate grey of loss and regret, the oppressive glum tunnels, the inevitable poorly lit corridors, the weird sad little guns shooting weird sad little men.

They remade some of the Nintendo themes we know and love, but gave an edger and somber mood.

The storytelling around the music helps you identify with Tom and the somber mood he is feeling with the death of his wife.

«And I think people in this community will realize what bright, happy paintings many of these are, even though some represent more somber moods.»

In keeping with the spirit of these artists, her large scale oil paintings are characterized by somber colours and a meditative mood, and are stripped bare of decorative elements, extraneous detail and moralizing content.

The mood was somber, intense, raw and painful at the Jef Campion / Army of One — Memorial Exhibition / Mini Retrospect...

The mood was somber, with many participants crying, but with a feeling of hopefulness leavening the sadness.