somber
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By the second half, a somber Dart was watching from the sideline in street clothes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Lee insisted on including the American flags dotting lawns, the general sense of unease and, in a somber touch, a credits sequence featuring the Tribute in Light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Charismatic and volatile, Shakur delivered intricately knotted verses—seductive then somber, mushy then menacing—in a voice scuffed by carton-loads of Newports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Then there’s the slow, somber poignancy of Hawk’s final aria, in which he recognizes the impossibility of the relationship, and paves the way to betrayal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Danny’s block was heavily populated by the followers of his father, Russian Hasidic Jews in somber garb, whose habits and frames of reference were born on the soil of the land they had abandoned.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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