Sentences with phrase «sombre tone»

Gallery 2, triple - height and top - lit, is made over to the experience of azure - the noontime sky - as «caught» by the painter, while the works in the galleries at either side bracket the azure with more sombre tones of grey.

However he struck a more sombre tone at the press conference that followed.

As the momentous evening progresses, Cooke creates a strange, off - kilter feel — the hotel's waiters seem to be sniggering at the couple from the other side of their room's door — and shoots the beautiful scenery in sombre tones of blue, grey and stone.

BROWN Enrich a handsome Tudor façade with sombre tones of brown or dark tan.

Even when tragedy returns, when black becomes both teller and tale as in Charred Beloved, where Gorky reprises a burnt painting from memory in sombre tones, the effect is of resurgence — life (or love?)

Fellow Brexit campaigner Michael Gove struck an even more sombre tone than Johnson as he spoke about the political demise of his close friend — prompting Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and other sceptical Twitter users to declare that the pair looked as though they were at a funeral.

Miliband, in sombre tones, said the whole country was «appalled» by the revelations.

Miliband adopted a sombre tone throughout.

«She's very serious in her style, very well - informed in her style, it won't be the same as David Cameron,» he said, welcoming the idea of a more sombre tone.

The sombre tone is all - but unique, provoked by the combination of Cameron's return and the attacks in Northern Ireland.

In sombre tones he did indeed acknowledge that there are no sunny uplands as we «now face a crisis that is the economic equivalent of war».

Visual: 5/5 — the scenes in the forest are shot with a fairy tale like feel, while the location shooting itself makes wonderful use of the sombre tones

I loved the varied characters, and the sombre tone of both media formats.

There was also a strong note of melancholy going through many of the better films, with an inordinate number set during the winter months as a way of emphasising this sombre tone.

Tsui Hark, China) Getting in just under the wire, Tsui Hark's latest is a wonderfully entertaining action romp that thankfully does its best to shake off the sombre tone of many recent Chinese war epics and have a bit of fun.

It's Got: A dizzying plot structure, an uncharacteristically restrained Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro sweating intensity from every pore, a sombre tone aided by the bleached - out colour and drab settings - and both heart and soul.

Now arriving in Europe, its slow, sombre tone and pitch - perfect acting are likely to win it similar praise around the world.

Judging from the films artistic visual style and sombre tone, Logan will easily be the most unique X-Men movie we have ever seen.

The campaign of Resistance 3 has its share of highs and lows, though its new, more sombre tone is welcome, whilst the multiplayer doesn't have an identity of its own.

Few things are more exhilarating than fighting Ganon atop the remains of his crumbled castle as the sombre tones of Ganon's theme rumble in the background.

What makes Drangleic so memorable, however, is its mournful and sombre tone.

The opening tutorial mission certainly sets a very respectful and sombre tone that you keep throughout the entire game.

During his last years he did many brilliantly coloured works, though the sombre tone of the Houston murals prevailed, and after his heart attack in 1968 he started painting predominantly with acrylic on paper.

Her ebullient, cartoonish shapes also have a comic effect; along with the humorous wordplay in the titles and her light - hearted way of handling paint, they counter the sombre tones and imposing scale of works.

Certainly, this is an exhibition with a more sombre tone, which presents the conflicting aspects of a city plagued by decades of negligence and abandonment of public life.

If his painting is Realist, there is nevertheless an element of Romantic drama in it: perhaps in the gloomy and sombre tones, in the sobriety of nature and the melancholy atmosphere that characterizes his landscapes.