Word: somberness
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Arnold Toynbee, inarticulate and somber, lunching daily on one banana and two apples. Albert Einstein, vainly seeking one more climactic insight, trudging home, declining rides, saying, "I must walk. I must walk." Physicist Paul A. M. Dirac, coatless in the coldest weather, striding the grounds, muffler flying. Physicist Wolfgang Pauli, while sipping tea in the faculty lounge, writing non-existent equations on an imaginary blackboard, then rubbing them out with an equally imaginary eraser...
Gertrud. The young art of film has produced few enough old masters, but any cinematic pantheon must make a place for Carl Dreyer, the Danish director whose reputation rests on a handful of somber, infrequent movie classics, among them The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and Day of Wrath (1943). Gertrud, made in 1964, is more museum piece than masterpiece, for this muted and stately study of a woman's quest for perfect love already seems to have been gathering dust for decades. It challenges the ingenuity of coterie critics to prove that any Dreyer movie will gleam...
...years 1937-1941 were somber ones. Gradually, world and national news took up larger and larger spaces on page one of the CRIMSON; and with increasing frequency the editorials on page two were devoted to debates about neutrality and criticism of two Presidents, Conant and Roosevelt...
...court in downtown Detroit has the familiar grey Government air. Lawyers match wits in somber courtrooms, jurors try to understand, defendants try to look innocent. But there is one big difference. Detroit's federal district (trial) court handles 90% of its criminal business without the help of a single U.S. commissioner-the federal magistrates who man the front line of federal criminal justice. Despite this fact, the Detroit court is among the best...
...book survives as more than a memoir of a battalion; it stands as a funeral service for a generation, the somber record of all men who not only bore themselves well in the face of a great calamity, but found their lives enhanced by it. There is no rhetoric; Chapman puts out no flags, but guards the human honor of his battalion like a mourner concealing his grief from strangers at the graveside...