Word: somberly
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Could such a place have been built on memories of the dead alone? Hardly; the mind does not function that way. The past, well used, strikes a somber chord in everyone. The sound is both lovely and necessary, as it reminds us where we are and have been, gives us heroes and prototypes, our models and cautions. But the past contains the future as well; that is, whatever was once wished for and realized now resides in the past. One looks back in order to recollect one's hope, not only the defeat of one's hope. Otherwise...
Wearing the green, red and white sash that symbolizes Mexico's highest office, a somber President José López Portillo took the podium in the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress last week to give his final state of the union address before retiring in December. Few political leaders have ever had to deliver a valedictory under such grim and humbling circumstances. Mexico's economy is staggering in a profound crisis that threatens the country's political and social stability. Inflation is running at 60%. More than half the population is unemployed or working...
Despite the late-summer explosion in the stock market, American business is in a somber and cautious mood as it approaches Labor...
...mourning of Id al Fitr is traditionally followed by the exchange of sweetmeats, and festive family gatherings. But as the Israeli siege of Beirut went into its sixth week, the mood was tense and somber. In the first aerial bombardment in more than a month, Israeli warplanes three times last week conducted dive-bombing raids against predominantly Muslim West Beirut, where some 6,000 P.L.O. commandos have been sealed off, along with 500,000 residents. The main Israeli targets were P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat's headquarters, located in the Fakhani neighborhood south of the center of the city...
...sound of brass choirs and symphonic processionals, commencement speakers have taken their places behind campus daises across the country to offer such parting wisdom as they possessed. For the nation's 1.3 million college graduates, the advice from their distinguished elders tended to be far more somber than lighthearted. The dominant topics were the nuclear arms race, the decline of Western values, the nation's economic troubles and the dangerous tensions abroad. Polish Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa was awarded honorary degrees in absentia at Providence College in Rhode Island, Mac Murray College in Jacksonville, Ill., and Springfield College...