Word: somberly
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...couturier who influenced me the most," says Christian Lacroix, who this season showed somber, voluminous coats that hark back to Balenciaga's work in the 1950s. "His use of materials, the graphic silhouette, the use of black and the influence of the Spanish Renaissance, lace, the pure opulence...
Although Updike said that there are elements of comedy in his works, he added that “my vision of reality is too somber to be really like comedy...
...Rose Garden this morning, President George W. Bush was one of the few Administration officials who wasn't smiling. Having learned the hazards of gloating, he maintained a deliberately somber mien as he saluted American troops for the allies' most dramatic victory in Iraq since Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003. He didn't allow himself a public grin until half an hour later, at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast. While Washington slept, Iraqis had announced that an American air strike had killed Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who competed only with Osama bin Laden for the title of world...
After a fortnight of defying the mass pro-democracy protests that have roiled his country, Nepal's King Gyanendra on Friday finally gave in: In a somber television address to the nation, he promised to restore democracy to this picturesque Himalayan nation, and agreed to hand over executive power to a prime minister picked by the pro-democracy coalition...
...then compared a law permitting a woman to defend herself against a would-be rapist with a woman’s right not to be besieged by “the aggressive fetus”—two sides of the same coin.At the somber candlelight vigil meant to be an occasion for victims to share their personal stories of rape, the last to speak was then-Assistant Professor of English Ann Pellegrini. She digressed, declaring her disappointment at how few contraceptive commercials were broadcast on television and lamenting that “matriarchy” provoked red squiggly...