All 5 Uses of
somber
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He stood still and gazed up at the sombre porch of the morgue and from that to the dark cobbled laneway at its side.†
Chpt 2 *
- The sunlight breaking suddenly on his sight turned the sky and clouds into a fantastic world of sombre masses with lakelike spaces of dark rosy light.†
Chpt 2
- His soul was fattening and congealing into a gross grease, plunging ever deeper in its dull fear into a sombre threatening dusk while the body that was his stood, listless and dishonoured, gazing out of darkened eyes, helpless, perturbed, and human for a bovine god to stare upon.†
Chpt 3
- The soul of the gallant venal city which his elders had told him of had shrunk with time to a faint mortal odour rising from the earth and he knew that in a moment when he entered the sombre college he would be conscious of a corruption other than that of Buck Egan and Burnchapel Whaley.†
Chpt 5
- He had lifted up his arms and spoken in ecstasy to the sombre nave of the trees, knowing that he stood on holy ground and in a holy hour.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(somber as in: a somber mood) serious (without cheer or lightheartedness); or sad