Word: somber
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...scandals threatened, then temporarily dissolved the community's most important invisible commodity, trust. Partisan fighting had grown personal, often petty, projecting a somber mood on a usually eager and vibrant student body. To make matters worse, Mary Joe Frug, a law professor at the New England School of Law and the wife of a Harvard professor, was murdered on April 4, 1991, the anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination...
...Yorba Linda, California, when the Presidents came one by one down the stairs, Reagan looked every inch his former self to the millions of television viewers. At the top step he paused a bit, gave that smile of his, and the crowd burst into applause despite the somber nature of the moment. He still seemed invincible -- the man who survived falls off horses, colon and skin cancer, prostate problems and even an assassin's bullet in the chest...
After this opening monologue, our narrator turns to two heavy doors which crash open and immediately reveal Henry's world. The mood is intensely somber and filled with dark foreboding, lit only by sideline torches. The young king is captured in a magnificent silhouette by the camera as it surges forth to meet him. All the pride and glory of the English kings is captured by the sweep of the camera as it passes along the dark eyes of conniving Archbishops, corrupt nobles and toady servants, all fixed upon the image of Henry on the throne...
...score is also well-suited to Henry's interior moods, although, upon occasion, it borders on the cliched. Yet, it's easy to get caught up in the intensity of the wild overtures and become reflective when the somber melodies herald the doom of war. The music becomes a character as it shapes, together with the camera, the intensity of the moments...
...vision of fashion compared with, say, Chanel or Versace. But I feel far away from him; these are two different concepts." In fact, Sander's style is even more spartan than Armani's, her palette even narrower; her detractors would argue that her look is far more severe and somber. "She is one of those designers other designers laugh at," says Joan Weinstein, who did so well carrying the Sander line in her Chicago boutique that she recently opened an all-Sander shop close by. "They say, 'Oh, there's nothing exciting here,' but they forget...