1.   Aleksandra Kolaric, a historian, said that with television so somber and the theaters closed, she managed to rent three videos for the mourning period.

2.   But by this Election Day the mood had turned so somber that at some polling places voters signed petitions to abolish their city.

3.   He seemed so somber.

4.   Not that all the discussion here has been so somber or speculative.

5.   They seem so somber, so mournful, so cheerless.

6.   With the national mood so somber and contentious, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has shown signs of increasing exasperation.

7.   Dench has the opposite at work, starring in a film so somber it may turn off Academy members.