Word: somberness
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Harvard issued no official statement about the attack, the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. But the mood was somber in Cambridge as the horrific facts trickled in piece by piece...
...Harvard issued no official statement about the attack, the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. But the mood was somber in Cambridge today as the horrific facts trickled in piece by piece...
...have written.”The novel ambles along, and each character’s story slowly unfolds as though time were no object. But, as in real life, you look at the date and without you even noticing it, 20 years have passed. It’s a somber realization that casts its shadow over the entire book, as the visceral realists and their companions wander the globe, searching for something they’ll never find, slowly losing both their collective identity and their health. Appropriately, Bolaño ends by returning to García Madero?...
...Rhodes Scholars give Oxford D-Minus,” proclaimed a March 4 London Times article. “Harvard students deplore Oxford University,” The Hindu grieved the same morning. Only the somber weightiness of a presidential obituary was suitable for what these newspapers dutifully reported: Harvard-educated Rhodes scholars, Melissa L. Dell ’05 and Swati Mylavarapu ’05, had penned an op-ed in this student newspaper complaining about their Oxford experience...
...This heaviness prevents the album from achieving the range of highs and lows that made “Funeral” so compelling. “Neon Bible” can be hard to listen to twice in a row, in part because it’s so determinedly somber. That one can get through repeated listens at all—especially with lyrics as bleak as “I’m standing on a stage / Of fear and self-doubt / It’s a hollow play / But they’ll clap anyway...