Word: somber
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last seconds ticked off the clock in Harvard’s 27-24 loss to Princeton on Saturday, the atmosphere in Harvard Stadium was a little somber and a little surreal. In front of a crowd of just over 12,000 and under cold and dreary drizzling rain, the Crimson lost a reasonable shot at the Ivy League championship. It was the loss that shouldn’t have happened—not based on precedent, not based on the way the home team played. It was surreal that the dreams of a league title would be squelched this way.Harvard...
...somber plaintive country music with lingering lyrics, including “Don’t want to shoot nobody, don’t want to get shot” provides the perfect soundscape for vast overhead shots of the iron mine’s barren snow-covered setting. The cinematography and soundtrack crystallize to form a tangible oppression, convincing the audience why this woman made these historic choices...
...implausible as the plot may occasionally seem, the director manages to suspend our disbelief through the charisma of the flamboyant Maggie and the more somber Rose. Collette masterfully brings Rose’s internal transformation to the surface—in her struggle to open up emotionally, she reveals herself to the audience, with brighter smiles, a more confident gait, and a simple abandonment of camera-consciousness. The result is a maturely developed character, deserving of our empathy (who doesn’t relate to bouts of ice cream-filled self-deprecation...
...Doctors were performing emergency surgery as the post-fight press conference commenced at the MGM Grand. Newly crowned champion Chavez approached the microphone and rather than boasting of his victory, he spoke in a somber tone and expressed genuine concern for his opponent. "I just want to say that my thoughts and prayers are with Leavander and his family," Chavez said. "He could use all of our prayers right now." But no prayers were answered, Johnson remained in a medically-induced coma for five days and was pronounced dead Thursday at 4:23 p.m. Mountain time...
...slow (but quicker than we think) job of rebuilding will begin. Then there will be no 24-hour news coverage. The spin doctors' narrative will create a wall of illusion thicker than the new levees. The job of turning our national disaster into sound-bite-size commercials with somber string music will be left to TV. The story will be sanitized as our nation's politicians congratulate themselves on a job well done. Americans of all stripes will demonstrate saintly concern for one another. It's what we do in a crisis...