somber

But mostly they just walked, their faces somber, their hands shaking as the snow began to fall.

It was both stylish and somber while being suitably grand for the formality of the occasion.

It was an intimate and somber plea, like a parent opening an intervention with a wayward child.

After Republicans took control of the Senate and made gains in the House, Democrats were in a somber, reflective mood.

“I think if anybody saw real fame first or secondhand, they would not want to pursue it at all,” says a somber Culkin.

But there was no shadow ahead of him this night; there was no somber thing to bend down the high serenity of his happy heart.

He was a dark, somber looking man with a particularly ugly scar on his chin.

The deep, dull murmurings of the multitude swelled in unison with the sighings of the storm rising upon the somber night.

While Jos spoke, something akin to kindness crept through the hard, somber lines, the lips twitched and the eyes softened.

The lodges of Fire Bear and his followers were placed in a circle, in a grove somber enough for Druidical sacrifice.