This opening sequence set the sombre overall mood of the album, revisited in another Lennon tune, " I Don't Want to Spoil the Party ", which, " consistent in tone with ‘ No Reply ’, ‘ I'm a Loser ’, and ‘ Baby's in Black ’", according to Allmusic, " finds the singer showing up at a party only to find that the girl he expected to find isn't there ".

Zardoz ends in a wordless sequence of images accompanied by the sombre second movement ( allegretto ) of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

Also, the signature theme music and full title sequence were dropped from the opening credits, and when the theme music was used it was written and scored in a more sombre fashion.

With over 40 musicians since its creation, the sound of the band has evolved constantly throughout the years, from its reggae / gypsy hippyish roots, to the more big band sounds and finally the return to the composers punk roots and a much heavier guitar laden sound with more sombre mood and themes.

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky — seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

And yet amid all the gay hedonism in Pilgrimage And Wander-Years is a cycle of short poems, `` Thoughts In Loneliness '', filled with brooding, melancholy, and sombre longing ''.

On the contrary, the frenzy and furor of combat is only the sombre foil against which the sudden illuminations of the human flash forth with the piercing radiance of a Caravaggio.

The main feature of the city is essentially the Monastery that proudly presents a long and sombre façade with 18th-century embellishments.

These ties, together with his ascetic manner and appearance ( a positive advantage to him at the sombre court of Leopold I ), ensured the refugee from the hated French king a warm welcome at Passau, and a position in Imperial service.

She disliked the bad roads, sombre forests and wooded houses, roofed with turf.

Such repetition can add a sombre tone to a poem, or can be laced with irony as the context of the words changes.

His next works were similar: sombre, realistic and filled with detailed evocations of Paris, a city Huysmans knew intimately.

He is pictured on monuments and cylinder seals ( sometimes with a horned helmet ) with the lightning and the thunderbolt ( sometimes in the form of a spear ), and in the hymns the sombre aspects of the god on the whole predominate.

The sombre mood of these early albums, along with Smith's on-stage persona, cemented the band's " gothic " image.

While her mother plotted and schemed to secure an alliance with England and her future husband celebrated his restoration by sporting with his mistresses, Catherine's time had been spent in the sombre seclusion of her convent home where there was little opportunity for fun or frivolity.

The best portrait we have of him is one by Bracquemond under which the sitter wrote that it represented “ the sombre Méryon with the grotesque visage.

Randy Newman was initially hired to write the film score ; however, Petersen considered his version to be almost a parody and commissioned Jerry Goldsmith to write and record a more sombre and patriotic score in just twelve days, with assistance from Joel McNeely.

Secrets of the Beehive ( 1987 ) made greater use of acoustic instruments and was musically oriented towards sombre, emotive ballads laced with shimmering string arrangements by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Brian Gascoigne.

The Australo-Papuan babblers are medium-sized terrestrial birds with sombre plumage and long decurved bills.

His first landscape paintings are sombre, coloured with dark browns, greens, and pale blues.

Her demise is more sombre than the comedic deaths of some of the other characters, leading to a somewhat depressing funeral and, in " Intervention ", making Chris go insane with grief.

However, seen to best effect most species are handsomely coloured with a sombre lustre of steely grey or bronze.

World War II inspired Ashton to create some works along more sombre lines, including Dante Sonata ( recently reconstructed after having been thought lost ), and after the war he turned to plotless ballet, with such works as Symphonic Variations and Scènes de ballet.

In the following days, Willingham would return to the house with some family and friends, this gathering being described by neighbors as having an odd levity, which was seen to turn sombre on the arrival of authorities.

The piano features for the first time with rapid scalic runs before a more sombre mood develops in the Meno mosso section.

After another sombre passage, the music suddenly enters the Allegro molto section with a very fast melody on the clarinet and strings.

In a scene of British soldiers drinking in an estaminet, a chanteuse ( Pia Colombo ) leads them in a jolly chorus of " The Moon Shines Bright On Charlie Chaplin ", a reworking of an American song then shifts the mood back to darker tone by singing a soft and sombre version of " Adieu la vie ".

Wreaths of remembrance poppies are laid on the memorials and two minutes silence is held at 11 a. m. Church bells are usually rung " half-muffled ", creating a sombre effect.

We were altogether dumbfounded by the sombre mood of these songs, and Schober said that one song only, " Der Lindenbaum ", had pleased him.

These years saw his work on Time in a Red Coat, a novel which Brown called " more a sombre fable ", a meditation on the passage of time.

Additional markings provide clues to the different moods Scriabin intended to convey throughout the work, such as " mystérieusement sonore ", or " avec une sombre majesté ".

Here, Astaire conveys a sunny yet nostalgic romanticism but later, when the music is danced to as part of " Never Gonna Dance ", the pair will create a mood of sombre poignancy.

The title of the album does not relate directly to the content of the album ; it is both a colloquialism of " lots of money ", reflecting the swaggering attitude with which the album was made, and an oblique reference to the darker, more sombre moments of the record.

The album included her first big hit, " That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be ", a sombre ballad centered on a woman pondering marriage with a sense of both inevitability and entrapment.

The album features eight tracks co-written by Neil and Tim, which feature the brothers harmonising on lead vocals, except on the sombre " All I Ask " on which Tim sang lead.

Much more than a " gloomy coda to the ... 1st century " the Roman Empire prospered between 81 and 96, in a reign which Theodor Mommsen described as the sombre but intelligent despotism of Domitian.

Queen Victoria died in 1901 and her son Edward VII became king, inaugurating the Edwardian Era, which was characterised by great and ostentatious displays of wealth in contrast to the sombre Victorian Era.

Its many original flourishes include the introduction to the cavatina Comme autrefois dans la nuit sombre played by two French horns over a cello background, an effect which in the words of analyst Hervé Lacombe, " resonates in the memory like a fanfare lost in a distant forest ".

The almost sombre Wheel of Fortune was shown in 1883, followed in 1884 by King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, in which Burne-Jones once more indulged his love of gorgeous colour, refined by the period of self-restraint.

They have mostly sombre grey, white, brown and rufous plumage, which is sexually dimorphic in pattern and colouring.

The verse may be given undue reverence precisely because of the sombre situation in which it is placed.

He did not possess the sombre power or the intensely analytical skill of some of his later contemporaries, but his books are distinguished by a freshness and honesty, fortified by cosmopolitan knowledge and lightened by unobtrusive humour, which fully account for their wide popularity in many countries besides his own.

Porte des Lilas ( 1957 ) was a sombre film, set once again in a popular district of Paris with its picturesque inhabitants, for which the singer Georges Brassens was persuaded to give his first and only film performance.

The comedy was also known for its contrastingly sombre musical soundtrack, which was released commercially.

The sombre and restrained colors of the previous decades gave way to bright, striking modern color-schemes, starting with the Hoover model 29 in 1950, which was red instead of the regular black and brown colors of the past.

In addition to this, the sombre and sweeping tone of his Meditations Among The Tombs ( for example, " the dreadful pleasure inspired by gazing at fallen monuments and mouldering tombs ") has led to his being placed amongst the 18th Century ' Graveyard School ' of poets, rendering his work an important influence on Horace Walpole ’ s ' The Castle of Otranto ' of 1764 and consequently, the entire genre of Gothic Literature and the later Romanticism which the genre fuelled.

In 1790 he published his first comedy El viejo y la niña ( The Old Man and the Young Girl ), a sombre work which attacked the consequences of arranged marriages between people of differing ages.

For the remaining 19 years of his life, starting in 1863, Thomson submitted stories, essays and poems to various publications, including the National Reformer, which published the sombre poem which remains his most famous work.

The genuine interest with which these volumes were welcomed did much to lighten the last years of a somewhat sombre and solitary life.

The massive casualties and upheaval had changed the general public perception of war as a source of glorious victories to a more sombre view of it as a tragedy, for which the newly instituted Armistice Day on 11 November was created.

Many long-time fans of the series criticized Nemesis for its sombre atmosphere, which was in stark contrast to the playful, light-hearted spirit of the previous entries.