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  1. Lament e Toronto in commemoration of the centenary of Goethe's play. The, sombre , first half represents his anguish in the asylum, and the glorious second half
  2. A suburb of London. And" Yesterday's News ", used only appropriately, sombre , music to accompany the end credits. After an emphatic climax," At Last a
  3. With his daughter Galena Brezhnev outraging spectators by not showing up in a, sombre , garb. Brezhnev on the other hand was dressed for burial in his Marshal's
  4. Of the city is essentially the Monastery that proudly presents a long and, sombre , façade with 18th Century embellishments. This austerity is further emphasized
  5. Against adversity, the Eighth Symphony of that year is perhaps the ultimate in, sombre , and violent expression within Shostakovich's output, resulting in it being
  6. Mayor of the City of London or a sheriff. The condemned were kept in narrow, sombre , cells separated from Negate Street by a thick wall and receiving only a dim
  7. The aforementioned buildings, especially their interior design. The old, sombre , gatehouses were demolished because they impeded transport and were an outmoded
  8. To the Swedish people, countryside and climate. She disliked the bad roads, sombre , forests and wooded houses, roofed with turf. She also pined for her husband. A
  9. 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Best known for the, sombre , pieces composed on his primary instrument, the guitar, Drake was also
  10. Suzanne Hoffman or Jean Rouault. They featured diverse subjects,the, sombre , The Story of Adele H., inspired by the life of the daughter of Victor Hugo
  11. To Bruckner are most strongly felt in the 'unmixed' timbrel palette and, sombre , brass chorales of Sibelius's orchestration, a fondness for pedal points, and
  12. Has sometimes been attributed to Hawks moor, and yet Season Delaney is a very, sombre , house indeed. Whereas Castle Howard could successfully be set down in Dresden
  13. To rediscover the Roman Catholic faith and resulted in compositions of a more, sombre , austere tone. Career Pollen was a member of Les six, a loose-knit group of
  14. Seneca if you played it," a reference to the Roman tragedian renowned for his, sombre , and bloody plot lines which were a major influence on the development of
  15. And the thunderbolt (sometimes in the form of a spear),and in the hymns the, sombre , aspects of the god on the whole predominate. His association with the sun-god
  16. Theme tune courtesy of Jenna Russell. The first two series used a relatively, sombre , theme tune for the opening titles; from series III onwards this switched to an
  17. Band. Hartley said," I realized that the group was heading towards suicidal, sombre , music—the sort of thing that didn't interest me at all. " The band reconvened
  18. Completely leave out the violins (about 20),giving the orchestra a darker, sombre , character,which fits the subject. Apart from this, this was Glass's most "
  19. Closer to the confluence of the Om' and the Irtish are the few surviving, sombre , buildings of the 18th-century fortress. The largest and most opulent church in
  20. Opera; after the entrance of Sharia to his menacing theme, the mood becomes, sombre , then steadily darker. In Scarpia's exchanges with Tosca the sound of tolling
  21. Key of B flat minor, for the tenor recitative" All they that see him ". The, sombre , sequence finally ends with the Ascension chorus" Lift your heads ", which
  22. Humanitarian spirit of the holiday season, stood out against the brooding and, sombre , mood of many of the songs on the album and was well received at concerts. It
  23. Produced by Martin Gannett, features a sound which is both lusher and more, sombre , than the band's previous album, Unknown Pleasures, with more use of
  24. And brought him to the attention of Emile Zola. His next works were similar:, sombre , realistic and filled with detailed evocations of Paris, a city Humans knew
  25. Of bishop Dionysus of Alexandria provides a colorful commentary on the, sombre , background of invasion, civil war, plague and famine that characterized this
  26. His chamber works were largely tonal, they gave Shostakovich an outlet for, sombre , reflection not welcomed in his more public works. This is most apparent in the
  27. Courtly culture, Johan Hooking noted that" at the close of the Middle Ages,a, sombre , melancholy weighs on people's souls. " In chronicles, poems,sermons, even in
  28. Still held at Windsor Castle rather than at the palace, presided over by the, sombre , Queen habitually dressed in mourning black while Buckingham Palace remained
  29. Him, to three late works on his death - the great Execution in Malta, and two, sombre , Salomes with his head, one in Madrid, and one in London. Aliens cathedral
  30. That evening, the children ask Mary how long she'll stay with them. With a, sombre , expression,she replies," I shall stay until the wind changes ". The next day
  31. Characters brought into the film merely as 'atmosphere' were clad in more, sombre , colours, with the usual native dress of the Nepalese, Bhutanese and Tibetan
  32. Cure released the non-album single" Charlotte Sometimes ". By this point,the, sombre , mood of the music had a profound effect on the attitude of the band. The band
  33. Recording, they had been touring for nearly two solid years and were thus in a, sombre , mood. " My Name Is Mud "," DMV ", and " Mr. Wrinkle" were singles, the latter
  34. Albums centered around themes of depression, loneliness,and isolation. The, sombre , mood of these early albums, along with Smith's on-stage persona, cemented the
  35. Two weeks in March 1981,becoming the band's only #1 single. Later, with more, sombre , and carefully sculpted soundscapes, the band's eighth—and final—studio album
  36. Anvil Chorus: Jedi LE force nocturne /" See! The endless sky casts off her, sombre , nightly garb. "). She is the daughter of the Gypsy burnt by the count and
  37. Productive in his years in Queen. It is referred to as his so-called dark or, sombre , period. Here he painted his famous painting The potato eaters as well as
  38. S unkempt poster child of doom and gloom ", and describes his songs as ", sombre , introspection over lush, brooding guitars ". His intricate guitar playing and
  39. Wellington in London, and calls for constitutionality in Germany. He wrote with, sombre ," almost morbid relish" that it was the" beginning of the end" of Old Europe
  40. His 1908 play The Passing of the Third Floor Back introduced a more, sombre , and religious Jerome. This was a tremendous commercial success but was
  41. 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
  42. His father, Ecthelion II. After Findings' death in, Denethor became, sombre , cold and detached from his family. As their father withdrew, the relationship
  43. Royal announcements, such as of royal deaths, when it is played in a slower, sombre , arrangement. Other British anthems Frequently, when an anthem is needed for one
  44. The northern frontier. But he came to be remembered as a dark, reclusive,and, sombre , ruler who never really desired to be emperor; Pliny the Elder called him
  45. Has a sad or resentful emotion attached to it. This opening sequence set the, sombre , overall mood of the album, revisited in another Lennon tune," I Don't Want to
  46. Inspector (Graham Chapman) retrieves the joke, but despite the playing of, sombre , music on gramophone records and the chanting of laments by fellow policemen to
  47. Characterised by great and ostentatious displays of wealth in contrast to the, sombre , Victorian Era. With the event of the 20th century, things such as motion
  48. West's decadent ways, and modernism developed in a markedly more bureaucratic, sombre , and monumental fashion. *New Objectivity aka Rationalism 1920-1939 (Germany
  49. In navigable weather it is always a seamark/To lay a course by: but in the, sombre , season/Or the sudden fury, is what it always was. " Classical sources Other
  50. Called him her" Moor ", perhaps due to his complexion or his preference for, sombre , clothes. She put up with his blunt, often unwelcome, advice because she valued

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