Sentences with word «sombreness»

In their comparative sombreness, King Vidor's The Big Parade (1925) and Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) are greater anti-war films, but then Vidor and Milestone couldn't possibly have feared, as did Gance, the coming conflagration.

To wit: a black suit is ideal for funerals, as the ultimate expression of sombreness.

We still have detractors — those who hanker for old ways and those afflicted with an El Greco - like sombreness.

On first - viewing the move looks like it may stop all the chaos of transfer speculation as the season starts, but the fact that the rest of Europe are yet to change their deadline days may not produce the required sombreness top flight clubs are looking for.

The drama is expertly controlled by Lelio, lit and shot in muted and subdued colour tones by cinematographer Danny Cohen and it has a very interesting musical score by Matthew Herbert; its musing and almost playful woodwind figures cut against the expected sombreness and obvious melancholy to contribute to this sense of disorientation and subversion.

There is an underlying sombreness to the installations in general, linking with ideas of Dadaism and surrealism.

In their comparative sombreness, King Vidor's The Big Parade (1925) and Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the...

For all their sombreness, Salcedo's works inhabit a realm of possibility: not only in the hope that historical memory might be reconfigured, but also in how they eschew didacticism and remain open to interpretation.