somber
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Appeared in the December 18, 2025, print edition as 'A Somber New Home'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
Somber and remorseful, his Beckett in formal attire explains that he has accepted the award so that he can give the money away.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024
Somber because the last of the Greatest Generation will soon no longer be with us.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024
Somber and exciting, the film, directed by Matt Reeves, shows how large-scale action filmmaking can explore political and moral matters without bogging down in pretentiousness.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2017
Somber clouds came over the brink of the horizon in the southwest, and crept threateningly up the great curve of the sky.
From The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
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