Life might easily come to be sober to somberness, which is a thing unwholesome and undesirable. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference
So much for trying to jolly her out of her somberness. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker for the Dead]
An odd mix, though, a skim of ebullience over somberness. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
I mean, there's a certain somberness as everyone has said. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2003] Reference
The soft neutral colors combined somberness with elegance. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Holland]
A natural somberness kept talk soft and furtive, not orders. From Wordnik.com. [The Metrognome and other Stories]
There was no crying, just a somberness that filled the rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Conflict] Reference
A fleeting grin broke the impassive somberness of the black face. From Wordnik.com. [Voodoo Planet] Reference
His statements exemplify the mix of somberness and joy on this team. From Wordnik.com. [USA beats Russia to reach Olympic volleyball final] Reference
But even on this front, the community's somberness is hard to ignore. From Wordnik.com. [Gay Rights Activists' Outlook Somber As Euphoria Over DADT Repeal Subsides] Reference
The Kimbell's silvery light allows us to see the somberness up close. From Wordnik.com. [Return to the Grim and Dark] Reference
There's a somberness and an intensity to his day that's extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. [The Thirty Days of Barack Obama] Reference
Riker looked at the smiling face and detected the somberness behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Mirror] Reference
Mother had talked and smiled, but her usual somberness was never far away. From Wordnik.com. [Much Ado About Marriage] Reference
“This is where I reside now,” Charles said with a touch of somberness. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon’s Apprentice] Reference
The physician spoke with all the somberness of which her kind was capable. From Wordnik.com. [A Call to Arms]
There was a suggestion of somberness in her eyes as she looked down at him. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
He smiled briefly, without humor, and then his face relaxed into somberness. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Ashe appeared to have lost some of his somberness since they had left the ship. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Derelict]
The somberness of the interminable groves of cocoa-palms on the one side of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
The spectacular jewelry only emphasized the somberness of her discontented face. From Wordnik.com. [Death on the River Walk]
To see, to feel, to hear here today the mood, the somberness is in stark contrast. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2003] Reference
"I've never seen that degree of stoicism, or sobriety, or somberness," Stirton says. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
When it had subsided, somberness reclaimed Joan, and Anna waited for the inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lure]
April Fool's Day in smalltown USA was met with sadness and overall somberness today. From Wordnik.com. [grizmom Diary Entry] Reference
He tried to sound light, though he was deeply disturbed by the dwarfs unusual somberness. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of Autumn Twilight]
As for himself, while he had his youth, he was not going to waste it on too much somberness. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
Then she looked at the pictures, which outside of their somberness seemed unremarkable to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic of Recluce]
Occasional shafts of sunlight, penetrating the deep shade, warmed the somberness of the grove. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XVII] Reference
He wound and climbed among masses between whose somberness the shadows and the cold lay heavy. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic May Return]
While her face is as round as ever, the somberness of her eyes removes any cherubic impression. From Wordnik.com. [The Soprano Sorceress]
During this bizarre Spanish autumn, event followed event with the somberness of a Greek tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [Spain on the Brink] Reference
The Matriarch returns the hug, the somberness leaving her features as she holds her youngest child. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Sorceress]
Then he, too, smiled, and the lighting of his general somberness made him indeed a youth and not a war leader of too many strained years. From Wordnik.com. [Three Against The Witch World]
It's a time of dumpiness, grayness, and somberness. From Wordnik.com. [歪酷博客 Ycool Blog] Reference
The somberness of the request couldn't quell Emanuel's acerbic wit. From Wordnik.com. [Articles] Reference
There was a gloom, a somberness, a hardness about him that had not been noticeable the day before. From Wordnik.com. [The Border Legion] Reference
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