Sabres forward Steve Ott expects there to be a somber mood inside the arena in Boston.

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Mr. Loy, who was dressed in black leather, including gloves, created with his music a sense of chaos and domination, of a somber mood exploded by rage.

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The theme for the upcoming Thoughts on the Business of Life page in the Oct. 24 issue of FORBES is repentance, partially in honor of the Jewish holy days but also as a nod to the general somber mood the Western World seems to be in right now.

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Their mood was somber and Mr. Simpson, normally loquacious and chatty, had little to say.

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The mood was somber as students lit candles in silence, with only muffled sniffles filling the air.

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And the mood was somber in Riverside, where two police officers had been shot earlier, and one died.

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Earlier, the mood was somber.

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The mood was much more somber at the Pentagon memorial a few miles away, where 184 people died when a hijacked American Airlines Flight crashed on September 11, 2001.

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Yet the mood was not entirely somber or reverent.

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