sombreness's Usage Examples:

The dynamics remain loud as the first section returns, but the quiet sombreness of the opening soon takes over.

steered clear of over sombreness or becoming too morbid" and added, "Just when it threatens to become banal.

The final section, despite its sombreness, swings you up into the region where cruelty and pettiness are themselves.

Roberts and Alexander Knox to hit such a slowness of tempo and such a sombreness of tone that the whole thing drifts into monotony, he has only emphasized.

subtle statics, occasionally throwing glowing sparks of light into the sombreness with higher-end metallic resonances.

The avant garde nature, sombreness, and elegant "schlampigkeit" (sloppiness) of his work has led to comparisons.

[but] most of all it's in an intensity of emotion and sombreness of storytelling here that at least asks to be taken seriously as something.

then Physician to the King, he said: "You seem to have eliminated the sombreness of atmosphere which sometimes shrouds buildings such as these".

He continues, "He balances the gravity and sombreness of his tenor's voice by constantly peppering genial conviviality and rapid.

" This sombreness of attitude in Ficino's text would be further developed later by Charles.

"Muharram: solemnity and sombreness".

Moabit and Wedding grab me most with their sombreness and desolation" (1926).

according to his biographer Jessica Duchen, his music acquired "a new sombreness, a dark-hued sense of tragedy .

minor quartet, of Haydn's; not only does the first violin line recall the sombreness of Haydn's quartet, the accompaniment figure of the opening is a close.

The sombreness of the movement is underlined by the final cadence on the lowest strings.

prints" displaying "modern in feeling and execution and in mood embody both sombreness and humor".

parts of the garden; the retention of areas with a strong nineteenth sombreness and richly varies plant list throughout the estate.

Synonyms:

somberness; apprehensiveness; apprehension; dread; gloominess; melancholy; gloom;

Antonyms:

sincere; insincere; insincerity; untruthfulness; levity;