Word: somberly
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...Paris studio dressing room before taping a performance for French TV channel Canal Plus last week. But despite the unapologetic joy that propelled the album's first single, Krafty, into the U.K. Top 10, Sumner warns that New Order haven't completely abandoned their early edgy electronics and somber lyrics. "It gets boring writing about how happy you are," he acknowledges. "We are working really hard to make sure we don't become boring...
...tried, with limited success, to explain that in many Catholic countries Good Friday was a somber day, during which people will be in church—“It’s like the Christian Yom Kippur.” I don’t think, though, that he understood; it was difficult to convey the idea of a sober, purely religious holiday, when we are so accustomed to secular ones. And I guess I could see where he was coming from: it’s pleasant to imagine Costa Ricans heading, en masse, to the beach, pleasant...
...house with a heart around it (perhaps a reference to the track “My Lady’s House”) and an image of Princess Diana with Prince Charles (perhaps calling attention to the theme of “woman king” and the general somber mood...
...exile, as he meditated more forcefully on his fate, he appears more frequently than ever. In The Raising of Lazarus - a powerful topic for an artist yearning for a papal pardon - he's struck by the same shaft of light that picks out the dead man. In his somber Saint Francis in Meditation, he may even be the saint. If so, it would be a telling use of himself to give authenticity to the idea of the saint's self-examination. But in none of his work did Caravaggio incorporate the idea of his own sufferings more fully than...
Recalling the complexity of people’s reactions to the event, the first part of the program acts as a somber memorial, while the second half is more uplifting, showcasing the initiative invoked by the tragedy and the power of students united for a single cause...