Firm fleshed ripe fruit, sombre raptures

Alabdullah says yesterday's work was especially sombre.

The economic outlook for Western Europe remains sombre.

The picture is a sombre one, and we are all affected.

Over the past three years, this sombre picture had become even darker.

The Board was concerned that the development outlook of most LDCs remained sombre.

Then a last group, all in black, the sombre hours of the night.

Against that sombre background, it is gratifying to note the progress made this year.

The terrible earthquake that struck Maharashtra in September was a sombre reminder of that.

Except for the slight improvement in commodity prices, all other major economic indicators remain sombre.

I feel as if nothing could ever touch me, he said in a tone of sombre conviction.

Careful management was all the more urgent as those developments were taking place against a sombre macroeconomic and political backdrop.

Our world has been radically transformed since the end of the cold war that sombre period that still has continuing effects.

But it isn't all sweetness and light this may be a palace, but it's empty and cold a sombre curtain shrouds the cradle

We are aware that this era, which is now behind us, has left a sombre legacy of unfulfilled needs in the field of education and training.

Brazil expresses deep regret at the repeated incidents of violence, which present a sombre picture though, we hope, not an irreversible one of lost opportunities for democracy in Haiti.

The Secretary General apos s comprehensive report (A 48 318 and Corr.1), paints a sombre picture of the situation in Nicaragua and has rightly drawn our attention to the deteriorating economic conditions in that country.

On a more sombre note, I wish to extend the condolences of my Government, delegation and people to our neighbours in the Pacific, Papua New Guinea and Japan, which have both recently experienced devastating volcanic eruptions.

I very much hope that Member States will use this opportunity to bring out their observations and ideas about both the substance of our issues the sombre realities of today's world  and the process and work ahead.

We have left such sombre hours behind and without doubt there have been important signs that this and other international organizations can and must provide many valuable and decisive contributions to the international community as a whole.

The unchecked aggression against Bosnia carries a sombre lesson for small and militarily vulnerable States, which are likely to lose confidence in the ability of the United Nations collectively to safeguard their security, sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The report of the Commissioner General presented a sombre picture of the economic and humanitarian conditions of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and of the refugees both inside and outside the occupied territories.

We must do so for our own sake, to ensure that our message to posterity, to future generations, is not imbued with the sombre and dramatic tone in which Hamlet, in Shakespeare apos s masterpiece, addressed his faithful friend Horatio, and I quote

When we go into that work, we should be reminded of two important realities one, the expectations and dreams of our peoples for this Organization, our United Nations the other, the sombre realities in this world, which we must also feel in these halls.

There is the risk that the trial will develop into a sombre farce whose aim is to persuade world opinion that Indonesia apos s forcible annexation of East Timor is now a fait accompli sacrificing the legitimate right to self determination of the Timorese people. quot 32

3. Against that sombre background, the outgoing Chairman drew attention to UNHCR apos s achievements, especially in Central America and Cambodia, where voluntary repatriation had taken place on an unprecedented scale, and in Mozambique, where preparations were under way for the largest organized repatriation movement ever carried out by UNHCR.

3. Against that sombre background, the outgoing Chairman drew attention to UNHCR apos s achievements, especially in Central America and Cambodia, where voluntary repatriation had taken place on an unprecedented scale, and in Mozambique, where preparations were under way for the largest organized repatriation movement ever carried out by UNHCR.

In spite all the efforts of the Angolan Government and of the international community, and as a result of this war, imposed on the people of Angola by the militaristic wing of Mr. Savimbi apos s UNITA, Angola faces a rather sombre future one dangerously similar to those of the countries that I have already mentioned.

A feeble burst of many voices mingled with the tinkle of silver and glass floated up from the dining room below through the open door the outer edge of the light from my candle fell on his back faintly beyond all was black he stood on the brink of a vast obscurity, like a lonely figure by the shore of a sombre and hopeless ocean.

I felt this while I sat with my face over the paper and he fought and gasped, struggling for his breath in that terribly stealthy way, in my room I felt it when he rushed out on the verandah as if to fling himself over and didn't I felt it more and more all the time he remained outside, faintly lighted on the background of night, as if standing on the shore of a sombre and hopeless sea.