| Not that these symbols will add to the sombreness and serenity of the scene. |
| But there is something misty about their countenance, something which makes the viewer contemplate on their sombreness and their solemnity. |
| The Soho streets, their sombreness heightened by the glorious evening sunshine that flooded the near empty pavements on Thursday night, were alive again. |
| But in some ways a sombreness has descended that threatens to remove some of the satire. |
| And if the passing of the great man brought a sombreness to the mood, that wasn't lifted by what happened on the pitch. |
| He had pale hair, his father's, and a certain sombreness of body, a restraint, his own, that gave him an uncanny discipline in games, in physical play. |
