Squat towers anchored every turn in the wall; narrow windows showed that the place was built for somber reflection and defense.

Inyx passed a long moment in somber reflection.

Perry's voice broke in upon my somber reflections.

In the back room, a brown paper "Bag of Bones" provokes a somber reflection - if we bring home dead meat from the supermarket, why not bones?

According to one review, "Levin's lyrics are equal parts wit and gravity which he underscores with an appropriate soundtrack of wild abandon or somber reflection."

Yesterday was a time for black bunting and somber reflection.

Then came his somber reflection on getting, spending, growing up and growing old, "The Giving Tree."

And through the concert, he kept returning to somber but determinedly hopeful reflections on war and peace.

Regimented German figures in a menacing landscape reinforce these somber reflections.

The series ends with Katniss' somber reflection that "there are much worse games to play."