Word: somberly
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Karpov, a former world chess champion, shook hands with each player the first time around the tables and then assumed a look of somber intent as he moved from board to board, sometimes pausing only for a second and other times carefully considering his options for several minutes before making his next move...
Viet Nam Veterans Memorial. From the time the design was chosen in 1981 until its completion in 1982, Maya Ying Lin's somber black granite dead end in Washington was controversial. Conservatives objected that it was both meaninglessly abstract and too dovish. But as soon as it was dedicated, with its roster of 58,000 Americans killed, all but the most relentless cranks were moved and subdued. No other American memorial has been the vessel for so much authentic emotion...
...most somber note at the session was struck in assessing the state of the Soviet Union. Soviet panelist Andranik Migranyan, senior research fellow at Moscow's Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System, warned that after five years of perestroika, "our economists say we have yet to hit the bottom. The people are acutely aware of the gap between words and deeds by the government. We feel we might be entering a period of chaos." Already, Migranyan warned, a loose coalition of forces -- disgruntled members of labor bureaucracies, ethnic Russian nationalists and members of the Communist elite, or nomenklatura...
However, the strangely somber spectators remained relatively silent, and the Harvard passing game quickly deflated Dartmouth's momentum within the next minute...
...example, recently turned up in a Beverly Hills courtroom wearing a vast spotted-print number. To be sure, it has always been O.K. for mainstream dreamers to be tigresses in private: catty underwear remains a steady seller. Now, after a drab decade of swathing for success in somber tones, slender stripes and severe lines, it seems that women are once again letting part of it, at least, hang out in pseudo-animal skins that have a kind of tacky charm -- or, as Bruce Binder, Macy's Northeast Fashion Director, puts it, "vulgar chic...