Word: somberness
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...tell this somber-hued tale, Composer Poulenc abandoned surrealist shiftiness and the brassy pyrotechnics which once made him the rage of the Left Bank. The new work proved to be in the 19th century operatic tradition-full of flowing melody, dramatic action, swift scenic shifts from the quiet cloistered walls to the reverberating streets of revolutionary Paris. The opera's most touching scene occurs in Act I, when the Carmelite Mother Superior (movingly sung by Gianna Pederzini) reveals on her deathbed to the sorrowing nuns her fear that God has abandoned her. Aided by La Scala's magnificent...
Accompanying the widowed Nehru: his daughter, slim, somber-eyed Indira Gandhi, 39, mother of two sons, who acts as India's first lady. A political name in her own right, she is a member of the topflight working committee of India's big Congress Party, and only woman member -by an overwhelming vote-of the party...
...last week, a green and white 1954 three-hole Buick sedan came to a gentle halt and an elderly couple got out. They were tourists, just passing by. The birdlike little woman chattered warmly to the counterman as she ordered weak tea. Her husband, a tall, stooped, somber man in a sports jacket, remained aloof. His heavy, bald dome wrinkled uneasily; his face drooped; his mouth was firmly shut. He folded and unfolded his big hands, cracking a knuckle occasionally and gazing, with utter absorption, at the garish, commonplace surroundings. His blue-grey eyes shone steady and intense...
...reckoning of the economic cost of Eden's Suez policy hit Parliament like a splash of cold water, thrown by Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, whose sober demeanor seemed to say: in aqua frigida veritas. The jeers and roars that had greeted Selwyn Lloyd gave way to somber attentiveness when Macmillan gravely declared: "The customary monthly announcement on the gold and dollar reserves is being issued to the press today ... It shows a fall of $279 million in the reserves...
...between ecstasy and agony. It is a spectrum of art, inspired by Old Testament themes, that begins with paintings from the Roman catacombs and covers more than 14 centuries before it comes to rest with the all but serene Biblical painting of Rembrandt. The contrasts are fascinating: between the somber faith of the Spaniards and the Gallic directness of the French, the controlled warmth of the Italians and the austere faith of the Germans. It is a brilliant sampling that shows, among other things, how national character, as well as time and place, alters the face of Christian...