A desire to get away from minimalism is not what trend forecasters were predicting in the somber days of last fall and winter.

In imperial Russia, theaters shut down during the most somber days of Lent.

He suggested that Mr. Clinton had turned a somber day for the nation into a political spectacle.

"It's been a very sober, somber day for us."

They have had fewer somber days than this one.

How could he forget the lovely child, the butterfly, that had brightened his somber days?

For most, despite the hugs and jokes when neighbors reunited, it was a somber day.

And so on a somber day across the Twin Cities, the fans mourned.

We are surely facing more somber days ahead, which strikes a familiar chord from my early childhood.

I would like to share with you a few thoughts on this important and somber day.