Word: somberness
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...paintings of Jacques Louis David carry the insignia of that austere and serious age which, now ignorantly identified with the flippancies of a decadent court, preceded and precipitated the French Revolution. Large somber canvases, they exclude flippancy and tell, with a dignified and almost Alexandrine rhythm, the most ennobling dramas of classical history-The Rape of the Sabines, Leonidas at Thermopylae, The Oath of the Horatii, Brutus, The Grief of Andromache and, most somber and perhaps imposing of all, the Death of Socrates-called, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ''the greatest effort of art since the Sistine Chapel...
...criminals, pimps, dope-sellers; some are Communists; the women are shrunken harridans or plumped-up prostitutes. It is a civilization fighting the throes of corruption : normal human feelings, human values are worthless, no longer existent; the most perverted, grotesque exaggeration is the rule. Author Neumann has laid on both somber and gruesome colors with a heavy hand. Whether or not a caricature it is a big picture, horrible, nightmarish...
...parts of Gaul will go to the Sanders Theatre tonight to at least a compromise with the ancients. Those who have found in the classics a metal that never tarnishes will go to be again confirmed. When in 1906 the Classical Club presented "Agamemnon", the twentieth century found its somber colors still unfaded under the stadium sky. In 1930 the robust comedy of Plautus will paint in lighter, sharper colors the humors and frailties of a no less common humanity...
...Pathetic Symphony is a strong rock to which any type of concert cancling and be sure of success. Nowhere else did Tschalkowsky so overwhelmingly give forth the somber Russion feeling, and at the same time express the sadness of the world. The work is pregnant with the gloom of Schopenhauer and the whole nineteenth century on the Continent; but its mood is one that seizes the present too, and shouts the futility of human striving. There are few works in music more universally moving...
...dusk, years ago, the onyx clock struck the somber hour of nine and the little fair haired child ran to his mother's knee to say his prayers. When he came to the end with, "bless father", he was startled by a large warm tear fallen from his mother's great brown eyes. Then he too knew that father would not be home until late, and --. But the girls of Akron University have been to the movies too often to fall prey to the mere tailor made suavity of a smiling male. When their little Willie of the future says...