A somber Riker gives the box to Picard who opens it to find Kamin's flute.

For example, the First and Second Estates proceeded into the assembly wearing their finest garments, while the Third Estate was required to wear plain, oppressively somber black, an act of alienation that Louis would likely have not condoned.

It's more layered and mid-tempo sound is regarded as their most mature work and has been described as a " somber, honest, polished and alternative record.

Many episodes ended on a somber note, and villains often got away with their crimes.

The New Yorker's was a rare positive assessment from the New York press: " It seemed a foregone conclusion that the show would be a failure ; a musical about history's most tragic maiden voyage, in which fifteen hundred people lost their lives, was obviously preposterous .... Astonishingly, Titanic manages to be grave and entertaining, somber and joyful ; little by little you realize that you are in the presence of a genuine addition to American musical theatre.

The group continued with 2002's Northern Light, which they portrayed as having a more somber, colder sound in comparison to their earlier offerings.

Its alternation of long and short lines, and their punctuation, made the verses flexible enough to sound somber or light and quick.

The earliest known use of the word gothabilly was by The Cramps in the late 1970s, to describe their blend of somber, rockabilly-influenced punk rock.

After returning to Scotland, the band decided to scrap the album as too dark and somber ( a reflection of their struggles over the previous few years ), also feeling that the song writing was not really finished.

As the crew drink a somber toast to their fallen captain, Elizabeth is wracked with guilt over secretly sacrificing Jack to the Kraken.

* But no one has recorded its accidents and incidents with so large and optimistic a sympathy ; no one has shown its strange blossoms of exotic beauty with such natural and unpremeditated appreciation ; no one has recorded its somber moments with such respect for their solemnity.

When Guru Dutt made comparatively light-weight films like Baazi and Jaal ( 1952 ), Burmanda reflected their mood with compositions like Suno Gajar Kya Gaye or De Bhi Chuke Hum and when Guru Dutt made his somber masterpieces-Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz ke Phool ( 1959 ), he was right on target with Jinhe Naaz Hai Hind and Waqt ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam.

Champion devised a number of eye-catching visual effects and spectacular dance sequences set to Philip J. Lang's orchestrations, but their brightness proved to be too great a contrast with the somber mood of the piece.

Mencken often espoused views of politics, religion, and metaphysics that stressed their grotesqueness and absurdity ; in this context, escape from the fraud of such somber subjects was welcome to him.

Vocal jobs are performed in a true ensemble style: Temptations singers Dennis Edwards, Melvin Franklin, Richard Street ( who was a frequent fill-in for Paul Williams and his eventual replacement ) and Damon Harris ( who had replaced Eddie Kendricks as the group's falsetto singer the previous year ) alternate vocal lines, taking the role of siblings questioning their mother about their now-deceased father ; their increasingly pointed questions, and the mother's repeated response (" Papa was a rollin ' stone / wherever he laid his hat was his home / and when he died, all he left us was alone ") paint a somber picture for the children who have never seen their father and have " never heard nothing but bad things about him.

According to the band they were only familiar with Tony Tribe's version ( apparently they didn't realise that the writer-credited simply as " Diamond "-was in fact Neil Diamond ), and their version featured a lighter, reggae-style flavor compared to Diamond's somber, acoustic ballad.

The earliest use of " the new black " seems to be in a March 1983 Los Angeles Times article, and apparently attributed to Gianfranco Ferré: " Colors are slated to be somber and muted, say most of the designers who previewed their collections for Fashion83.

A somber Reutemann took his 2nd victory of the season and his 12th and what was to be the final victory of his enigmatic career after a weekend that was marked by frustration, politics and tragedy.

The third and final act continues Andre's testimony, but her attitude has changed from defiant to somber.

The first is a somber tale of a 16th century French peasant's disappearance and return upon which he is suspected to be an impostor ; the music is marked by dissonance which emphasizes the tension in the story, particularly in the final courtroom scene.

The final story arc is rather somber, in contrast to the rest of the series.

:: We perceive no need to refute these arguments with somber reasoning and copious citation of precedent ; to do so might suggest that these arguments have some colorable merit.

Though sentimental, Since You Went Away is more somber and realistic about the carnage of war and the pain of separation than some other homefront movies made during World War II.

NY Rock describes him as " pop culture's unkempt poster child of doom and gloom ", and asserts that some of his songs are a " somber introspection over lush, brooding guitars ".

Initially, the language was supposed to be more somber and classical, but Meyer made some last minute changes.

Is somber, which leads to some animosity between him and the other Mini-Devils.

Though liturgical colours are not as fixed in the Eastern practice ( normally there are simply " festive " colours and " somber " or Lenten colours ), in some churches, green is used for Pentecost and its Afterfeast.

Instead of the second theme, the transition moves into a dark and moody section in E-flat major and in 6 / 8 meter, resembling some kind of somber procession.

How well he understands city life, how beautifully he makes you see the joy in the hearts of his ragged little children, as well as the grief in the souls of the somber aged, was shown in his six paintings which really form a record of his insight into the realities of life and the beauties that are hidden deep in some seeming sad realities.

Though a satirist, his poems written during more somber periods remain some of his most beautiful and enduring, including " Little Jerry the Miller " about his father's mill assistant.

These somber works, inspired by Spain but painted in Paris, are now some of his most popular works, although he had difficulty selling them at the time.

Schulhoff went through a number of distinct stylistic periods, ranging in Anne Midgette's words, " from the endearing self-consciousness of talented youth in the Suite for Chamber Orchestra to the fierce somber aggression of the Fifth Symphony.

** Note: Marker present commentary for this " somber work about the daily lives of fishermen on Brittany's Île de Sein " ( Film Comment ).

New York Times noted: " The costumes and ornaments are a glamorous cover for the genre's somber themes.

" When Beria left the room, he broke the somber atmosphere by shouting loudly for his driver, his voice echoing with what Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva called " the ring of triumph unconcealed.

* The 2001 Emmy Awards: scheduled for September 16, 2001, the show was rescheduled twice ( the first rescheduled date was the day the United States started Operation Enduring Freedom ) before taking place on November 4, with a somewhat somber atmosphere after surviving rumors of cancellation.

He entitled it " Shakespeare at the Funambules ", and in it Gautier summarized and analyzed an unnamed pantomime of unusually somber events: Pierrot murders an old-clothes man for garments to court a duchess, then is skewered in turn by the sword with which he stabbed the peddler when the latter's ghost lures him into a dance at his wedding.

His paintings of 1902 – 03, a period of material hardship for the artist, are comparatively somber and reveal a preoccupation with form.

Whereas the play ( and the trilogy of which it is the last play ) was meant to end with somber mourning for the dead brothers, the spurious ending features a herald announcing the prohibition against burying Polyneices, and Antigone's declaration that she will defy that edict

In other Christian denominations, such as the Lutheran Church or Methodist Church, the stripping of the altar and other items on the chancel also occurs, as a preparation for the somber Good Friday service.

While the album is full of the pop-rock that has sustained the band for decades, lead singer / guitarist Rzeznik's songwriting takes on a more somber, serious tone.

A somber Dorothy Kilgallen thanked Steve Allen for stepping in and helping them to carry on at a difficult moment.

< nowiki ></ nowiki > can never compensate for that tragedy we call the Tillamook Burn, as somber a sight as to be viewed this side of the Styx.

On 10 June 2004, a somber and minimalist Atocha station memorial was dedicated for the victims of the Attack.

It is known for its variety of tunes which tend to focus on the use of percussion and woodwind instruments, ranging from a lighthearted dwarves ' polka to a somber, wistful snow melody to a tribal-like dance.

Troy Patterson, a critic for Entertainment Weekly, gave the film a B, calling it " an expressive mood piece creepy with cosmopolitan paranoia and bracingly somber bombast ".

By 1947 Kai Winding was greatly influencing the sound of Kenton's trombonists, the trumpet section included such screamers as Buddy Childers, Ray Wetzel, and Al Porcino, Jack Costanzo's bongos were bringing Latin rhythms into Kenton's sound, and a riotous version of " The Peanut Vendor " contrasted with the somber " Elegy for Alto ".

Where the Kokin Wakashū was concerned with subjective experience, word play, flow, and elegant diction ( neither colloquial nor pseudo-Chinese ), the Shin Kokin Wakashū ( formed with poetry written by Saigyō and others writing in the same style ) was less subjective, had fewer verbs and more nouns, was not as interested in word play, allowed for repetition, had breaks in the flow, was slightly more colloquial and more somber and melancholic.

He is only seen uncharacteristically somber at two points in the game: before Garnet is to be crowned Queen of Alexandria, and when the true reason for his existence is revealed.

The show attempted thereafter to return to the usual format, though it held a somewhat somber tone for the rest of the day.

Despite the otherwise somber readings of the season of Advent, which has as a secondary theme the need for penitence, the readings on the third Sunday emphasize the joyous anticipation of the Lord's coming.

Navarro had been at the Convention for Texas Independence, when he received the somber news from Juan Seguin, of the Alamo's fall.