1.   The other members of my doubles foursome were appropriately somber and concerned.

2.   The Yankees played under an appropriately somber sky, in a persistent, divine rain.

3.   We were left with two schools of analysis in a Cowboys postgame locker room best described as appropriately somber.

4.   Wearing their spiffy North Face jackets and talking in appropriately somber tones, the TV journalists often gestured to the tree as if it were evil itself.