Word: somberness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Union Carbide offices around the world, the mood was somber. Said an executive at the corporation's Danbury, Conn., headquarters: "People were scared to death by the company's falling stock price, but most of all they felt terrible about the tragedy." On Thursday at noon the company's 100,000 employees worldwide observed a moment of silence for the Bhopal victims. Without any prompting from superiors, managers launched safety reviews of their operations...
...lively imagination reflects a keen understanding of children and an ability to make this perception appeal to all readers Marie is his special creation and he makes us feel her pain as the clock is stabbed by the clockmaker's tools. Within this sugar-puff setting, we appreciate the somber purity and beauty that Hoffmann so prizes. Only a hopeless romantic could create a nutcracker who addresses his lady in "a little bell like voice: Dear sweet Marie. Protectress mine. Thou standest by me and I'll be thine." And within the bizarre tale of Marie's adventures, Hoffmann revels...
Perhaps the dispute over the war's monument at least will be put to rest. When Designer Maya Ying Lin's Viet Nam Memorial was unveiled in 1982, few denied the power of the low, somber black granite wall, now engraved with the names of 58,007 Americans dead or missing in the war. Nonetheless, many veterans felt that the wall was not uplifting, not heroic enough. So officials of the memorial fund risked the wrath of those who liked the wall as it was and asked Frederick Hart, 40, a Washington sculptor who had finished third...
...more somber atmosphere prevailed at the Park Plaza Hotel, where Bay State Mondale-Ferraro backers had little to celebrate...
...Giselle" was the first work of the night, "Troy Dance," a short, fantastic work choreographed by Robert North with music by Bob Downes. The dozen-man ensemble rolled, leaped, and cart wheeled across a bare stage in various pairs and groups. This comical celebration of machodom neatly balanced the somber 'Creole Giselle,' reminding us of the perversely ambiguous history of the American south. The Brazilian music--rhythmic drums, cymbals and xylophones and the set's rapidly changing colors provided a lively background for the jazzy, athletic dance...