All 7 Uses of
somber
in
Catch-22
- "I guess we do have to go back again, don't we?" McWatt had said somberly over the intercom.
Chpt 6 *somberly = solemnly (in a manner that is serious--not cheerful or lighthearted)
- I'm sorry, sir, but just about all the prayers I know are rather somber in tone and make at least some passing reference to God.†
Chpt 19
- At unguarded moments his hard and sullen face slipped into a somber, preoccupied look of defeat and frustration.†
Chpt 21
- Nately answered softly with somber awe.†
Chpt 23
- He could still see Major Major and Major Danby standing somber as broken stone pillars on either side of him, see almost the exact number of enlisted men and almost the exact places in which they had stood, see the four unmoving men with spades, the repulsive coffin and the large, loose, triumphant mound of reddish-brown earth, and the massive, still, depthless, muffling sky, so weirdly blank and blue that day it was almost poisonous.†
Chpt 25
- Yossarian shouted anxiously at Doc Daneeka as he ran up, breathless and limp, his somber eyes burning with a misty, hectic anguish.†
Chpt 30
- Almost two hundred tired, gaunt, downcast men stood holding their parachute packs in a somber and unstirring crowd outside the briefing room, their faces staring blankly in different angles of stunned dejection.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(somber as in: a somber mood) serious (without cheer or lightheartedness); or sad