Sebald's "ability to enter diverse inner landscapes, and evoke, with an impartial empathy, entire geographies of experience," gives his writing "its gravitas and its somber beauty."

"Now Travis is back in the beast's mind," Culluket said, admiration brightening the somber beauty of his face.

It consisted of a somber beauty of melancholic charged electronica.

Such textiles are haunting reminders of mortality that matched in somber beauty the most eleborate of all Southeast Asian ceremonies - funerals.

Considering the way Gorillaz mix doom with slinky beats, the Good, the Bad & the Queen is willfully hookless, though the music has a somber beauty.

For the first time, squatting there, Horton really saw and appreciated the somber beauty of the forest.

The somber beauty of the room was absolutely still.

Yet a nunnery could have its own sort of somber beauty.

A singular talent who passed almost unnoticed during his brief lifetime, Nick Drake produced several albums of chilling, somber beauty.

Einstein studied the scenery with great interest, clearly treasuring even the somber beauty of this nearly colorless winter day.