Word: somberness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...individually and blend to form a unified composition. Gorky chooses a different approach for the portrait of his mother. Here there are no discrete lines; the features are formed by altering the intensity of the charcoal. His careful regulation of tonality enhances the sullen quality of the woman's somber face with large, searching eyes and pursed lips. In another set of drawings, Gorky uses pen and ink hatch marks exclusively to create more abstract human outlines...
Speaking grimly at a crowded Detroit press conference, Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend repeated a somber theme that he has been sounding ever more urgently since the collapse of U.S. auto sales last fall. "We need leadership out of Washington, and in my opinion we're not getting it," Townsend said, calling for deep tax cuts and much more ease in monetary policy. He added: "We're in a very, very serious recession. The spiral is still going down...
There was an immediate uproar, and talk of a strike. But what became clear in that somber, three-hour-long meeting we had--the first one ever without Steve--was that the real hurt was not the wage cut but the fact that Steve had just decided to do it, without consulting anyone. We felt betrayed. We had always been one big happy family; all of a sudden Steve was asserting his authority over us as our employer...
...Bergen was in the Oval Office taking pictures, a serious avocation of hers, alongside David Hume Kennerly, Ford's cameraman, the President went dutifully through his routine as the shutters clicked. After the two had gone, Kennerly was summoned back to Ford's desk. There stood a somber Ford with Aides Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. "We have taken a vote," pronounced Ford. "We have decided to replace you with Candy Bergen as White House photographer." The laughter filled the Oval Office and Jerry Ford was ready for more work...
...chamber works can sometimes sound like the serial music of Arnold Schoenberg spun out to infinity by a modern-day sorcerer's apprentice. To those who listen hard and well, they constitute some of the most profoundly evolutionary, if not downright revolutionary, music of our time. It is somber, dark music that is not primarily intended to provide instant pleasure. Composing thus, Carter is a true child of the age of anxiety, but in matters of compositional style he is essentially fatherless. No one teacher, composer or school of thought can be said to have created him. The higher...