The reports from the Federation News Service maintained an even and somewhat somber tone in the wake of the Praxis mission.

"The narration had to be somewhat somber and restrained, and I saw a lot of animators with too cartoonish of a style," Mr. Jousset said.

These canvases, stretched and unstretched, hang like so many tapestries in a baronial hall, and the overall effect is somewhat somber.

His voice, though somewhat somber, sounded much less weary than it had only a few hours before.

The last time Eze was reviewed, in 1988, I remarked that the town house seemed somewhat somber and the staff stilted.

Mr. Aaron characterized his meetings with the Chinese as "somewhat somber."

Inside, the atmosphere is somewhat somber but cozy, and the waiters and waitresses are obliging.

Yet the show has a somewhat somber tone this time.

"That's our system," remarked a somewhat somber President Clinton.

Libby Cameron redid the modestly proportioned Main Stair Hall with a leopard-patterned rug and pastel-yellow walls (the authentic period color would have been a somewhat somber blue-gray).