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"solemnity" Definitions
  1. [uncountable] the quality of being solemn
  2. solemnities [plural] (formal) formal things that people do at a serious event or occasion

287 Sentences With "solemnity"

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They smoothen the music while cultivating a sense of solemnity.
It's not a political day, it's a day of solemnity.
What is similar is the palpable solemnity of the moment.
Pelosi can bring solemnity and dignity to a Senate trial.
In other words, you talk about the decorum, the solemnity.
" Benson said with extraordinary solemnity, "You better off wit dem.
The book acknowledges this with an air of dutiful solemnity.
The solemnity of what was about to happen finally hit me.
There's none of the performative solemnity of standing silently at attention.
The Park can be a place of solemnity and reflection, sure.
"Suck it up," Gibson laughed, before her face fell into solemnity.
Alternate-side parking: In effect until Thursday (Solemnity of the Ascension).
The moment froze as the solemnity of her words sank in.
I feared, in the first minutes, a tone of turgid solemnity.
They poetically rhyme exquisite engineering with brute materiality, élan with solemnity.
Perhaps most insulting of all is your false display of solemnity.
The solemnity of the ritual reflected the spiritual stakes at Oceti Sakowin.
He closed his eyes, his face reflecting the solemnity of his task.
Instead, it vacillates between ponderous solemnity and a distressing tendency towards silly schtick.
Perhaps it's time to drop the po-faced solemnity about our final frontier.
Andrei's proposal to Natasha is, in the novel, a tremendous moment of solemnity.
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — An air of solemnity hangs over Lucy McBath's bid for Congress.
Alternate-side parking: In effect today; suspended tomorrow for Solemnity of the Ascension.
Moody and strange, "Fast Color" has a solemnity that haunts almost every frame.
He said it needs to hit the right note between humor and solemnity.
On the other side, solemnity and decorum could not have been more distant.
Books of The Times The news was announced with great solemnity and pride.
There's a kind of sacred solemnity to that realization, even if you're not religious.
It is a style of eloquent economy, which embraces wit as well as solemnity.
All this arranging and getting set produces a surprising sense of solemnity and importance.
Yet its spartan solemnity seemed to acknowledge the power of what stood behind it.
Mr. van Zweden maintained solemnity and a steady pace, never indulging in emotive tweaks.
It has the elegance of a jewel box and the solemnity of a church.
This a simple slogan that you'll find addicts saying to each other with great solemnity.
In a sign of the event's solemnity, selfies have been discouraged at the cremation complex.
"I'd support him or her — just for diversity's sake," Mr. Weir said with fake solemnity.
As we took the oath of citizenship, the solemnity of the moment spiked through me.
The sound of police helicopters was a stark contrast to the silence and solemnity below.
The solemnity surrounding this perennial observance suggests the initiation ritual of a really square fraternity.
He'll never be sufficiently lauded for the grace and solemnity of his performance as Caesar.
But they do their jobs with solemnity and tenacity and without a whiff of scandal.
There's a dignity and sincerity in Stewart's performance, one that calls for both brightness and solemnity.
We follow a plant engineer through his daily duties, which he approaches with intelligence and solemnity.
In fact, the project is admirable in its solemnity; there's hardly a character worth cheering for.
He bore a certain gravitas that matched the solemnity of the occasion and issues facing society.
Thankfully, the album eschews symphonic grandeur, solemnity, and the other qualities that befuddle earnest rock seekers.
But what's really most ridiculous about "Batman v Superman" is its lugubrious solemnity and generic philosophizing.
Events like the killing of Osama bin Laden, he said, were treated with solemnity and restraint.
Unlike traditional cemeteries that meet death with solemnity, the Merry Cemetery chooses to laugh at death.
Her work is "characterized by disrespectful humor, clear-sighted solemnity and inconspicuous warmth," the citation said.
For all of the talk of history and solemnity, the senators looked tired, their attentiveness sagging.
Some highlights: He accuses Pelosi of portraying a "false display of solemnity" during the impeachment process.
His deep, resonant voice conveys solemnity, but there's something in it that ironically undercuts his seriousness.
With that comes some solemnity, but ultimately gives way to a hopeful start to the new year.
Behind his outwardly sunny disposition there is both a single-mindedness and an inner solemnity about him.
Damon does bring a little wit to the proceedings, his deadpan punch lines undercutting the epic solemnity.
To me, there was a solemnity in the iron-and-wood interior, the chill, the shadowed booths.
" Sontag opted for solemnity, hazarding in a preface that photography "converts the whole world into a cemetery.
The sports world's trend toward big productions often overwhelms out the nobility and solemnity of the anthem.
After this presidency, will we ever be able to recover a sense of solemnity in our politics?
She doesn't mistake solemnity for seriousness and, in nearly every paragraph, seems to be utterly enjoying herself.
Senators will be required to stand and vote from their seats, underscoring the solemnity of the occasion.
It's an intrusion on quiet, innocuous solemnity, and it will haunt your thoughts pervasively and perpetually thereafter.
Then, with no regard for the solemnity of the moment, the RV door once again whipped open.
The solemnity is still part of his range, but he is often raucous and a tad cocky, too.
There's a risk to this sort of solemnity—and Ridley's other new show, "Guerrilla," on Showtime, demonstrates it.
The Jewish holiday Purim, which starts at sundown on March 9, is not an occasion for religious solemnity.
As usual, the drums are what destabilize the composition, refracting and undercutting the solemnity of the underlying orchestrations.
Biden may look very silly to Twitter sophisticates with his attempted solemnity interspersed with odd ellipses and double hyphens.
But there's a solemnity to the national anthem, so people stand still as a sign of respect and reverence.
A fashion model, she consciously chose the solemnity of her pose with what she described as "a professional reflex".
It's easy to forget, with all their religious solemnity and cryptic language, that these folks are just magical hitmen.
With FLOTUS in the front, there's a nicely accidental moment of solemnity-skewering with Hillary Clinton as its object.
It's interesting, that contrast between the frivolousness implied by femininity and the solemnity that marks a diagnosis of cancer.
Then he rolled up the mat, and the air of solemnity was gone as abruptly as it had come.
There was a solemnity to his voice that was hard to reconcile with the laughing man of years ago.
While this piece lacks the frenetic energy seen in her later works, it communicates solemnity in the face of war.
For an atheist who misses the liturgical solemnity and theological strangeness of High Church, ''Dopesmoker'' delivers the next best thing.
But Trump did strike a similar tone of solemnity, which has become rare during his public appearances until this point.
Yet behind the mock solemnity of the décor—rust-stained scimitars, faux-candle chandeliers—is a seriousness of culinary intent.
As he got older, his face took on a deeper wisdom and sadness while losing none of his mountainous solemnity.
It's more like the reverse: I fear an inability to perform the sadness and solemnity the pilgrimage seems to require.
You said while explaining the book that you wanted to create this idea of solemnity to the idea of friendship?
Meg Murry is a smart, hurt and very real-seeming middle school student played with wonderful solemnity by Storm Reid.
Though McCain never became president, the military ceremony and sense of solemnity had the historic sense of a state occasion.
Its five words are repeated over four stanzas in a minor key, which gives it an air of meditative solemnity.
The tenor of the jokes seemed to alternate between anger and solemnity as people adjusted to a bizarre, whiplash-inducing year.
But this time, there was also solemnity in the concerts, which seemed at times like a series of small religious services.
Eric gave her a firm handshake and said, "We're glad you could come," with the amicable solemnity of a funeral director.
The work is a meditation on the endangerment of the physical book in the digital age, but there's no solemnity here.
The camera faces Wurtz at eye level while he speaks in a deadpan solemnity reminiscent of some early Vito Acconci videos.
He's here to lend some kind of gravity, to cut Meek Mill's revving engine with a jolt of cut-rate solemnity.
Reading, say, "The First Hour of the Night," which ranges in emotion from solemnity to rage, you'll find the absorption mesmerizing.
The director also brought an offbeat sense of humor to some scenes, providing occasional relief from the solemnity of the proceedings.
I like the self-conscious solemnity of the faces in the National Portrait Gallery and the variegated gray of the Thames.
Miles's voice had a new solemnity, as if this was something other than an interesting adventure story he wanted to hear.
He spoke with a solemnity somehow accentuated by his awkwardness, in contrast to the slick sloganeering of his nemesis, Benjamin Netanyahu.
By the time Trump took the stage in Shanksville, however, he already had appeared to undermine the solemnity of the day.
However, shortly afterwards, your haste to have I don't know how many names a day, stripped the situation from its solemnity.
Destiny's own solemnity seemed well-intentioned, but completely at odds with the day-to-day experience I had playing it with friends.
To this day, Ashura is marked with solemnity, as people mourn and reflect on what they can still learn from this story.
Moments of dignity and solemnity have been interrupted over and over by politics and vitriol and today, it seems, is no different.
There's solemnity in the name of the Resonant Bodies Festival, an annual celebration of contemporary vocal music now in its fourth year.
There was a mistaking of solemnity for seriousness, which made things like Kenickie – who were serious, but not solemn – out of place.
He relates her final moments soberly, lets her have the amusing lines, but once she dies, he destroys any trace of solemnity.
Kennedy was not alone in the belief that an open casket could create a morbid distraction from the solemnity of the occasion.
But considering that autumn is typically considered a time for solemnity and contemplation, it will be decidedly less fun than hot girl summer.
Johnson's only radical step here is to extend that humor past the heroes, and let it briefly disrupt the villains' solemnity as well.
The pervading feeling is one of quiet anxiety; a new solemnity has entered our lives and we feel a strong determination to resist.
Bethesda Softworks and development studio Arkane have been largely preserving an air of solemnity around Prey, their upcoming reboot of the 2006 shooter.
In his own prose Reid sounds like Wilson and Kazin, sharing their capacious curiosity and emulating their stylistic momentum, epigrammatic solemnity and wryness.
Even from the picture it's possible to discern that police carried her rather carefully, which ironically adds to the solemnity of the photo.
The 100th anniversary of the birth of the man who defined strength, forgiveness and reconciliation is viewed with even more solemnity than usual.
The coronavirus pandemic will likely add a level of solemnity to the debate, which may also minimize conflict between the two, strategists said.
"Democracy" was the word of the hour, an elixir for all problems, according to President Woodrow Wilson, who intoned it with impressive solemnity.
They shimmered during the finale, models gliding down the aisles in a kind of processional that lent the evening an air of solemnity.
And now, the president and his lawyers are willing to risk the solemnity, and purpose of an impeachment trial to go after him.
As the heroine's captor goes about preparing his meal of human extremities, there's a vacancy in his eyes that conveys a sense of solemnity.
This leaves the opportunity for Clarkson to do something goofy — did you think the BBMAs would let her get away with just pure solemnity?
There's a kind of richness and solemnity and historical references and things to the Woodcock label, so how do you make a spring collection?
The solemnity is supposed to be a form of kindness, perhaps, but it can feel more like yet another loss, almost a premature death.
People need to know where exits are and how to pay attention if a threat emerges amid the music, prayers and solemnity, Pridgen said.
But every time the score seemed ready to tip into perfumed banality, the music, without changing its character, took on a newly moving solemnity.
The work's solemnity didn't deter rowdies in 1979 who attended the show in Copacabana where it was introduced, incautiously augmented with blasting Hendrix music.
As the crowd watched her prepare to play, they went silent, appreciating what was clearly meant to be the evening's lone moment of solemnity.
When it comes to the solemnity of the deathbed, live music is already part of the larger movement to reintegrate death into American culture.
This tactile experience is a retort to the museumesque solemnity of Flight Club and Stadium Goods, the logistical speed bumps of shopping at Supreme.
The mummified bales and portentous bells possess a solemnity at odds with the funhouse effects of the freckled mirrors in bright, Koons-esque colors.
Their solemnity is underlined by the sepulchral lighting at night, so gloomy it makes the crypt of Grant's tomb look like a tiki bar.
He presides at ceremonial occasions — memorials, commemorative rituals, official receptions — with a measure of solemnity and switches gears for the lighthearted trappings of office.
ERIN: During a crazy week like this, I was surprised by how many really intimate moments of friendship and silence and solemnity there were.
This is celebration music—Burna Boy singing about lighting a spliff music, flying in the clouds music, grounded in the solemnity Dave does best.
Those misgivings burst onto social media this week when photographs emerged that were criticized for disrespecting the victims and the solemnity of the site.
Except for Ski Mask — a goofy, loud, glorious anomaly — most such rappers have a tendency to vanish behind tears and spittle, cloaked in solemnity.
This star of his field, this massive success story, actually appears to be a decent guy who lives a private life of solemnity and respect.
It concluded with one of those: "The Single Petal of a Rose," played by Mr. Temperley on bass clarinet with a tender and unhurried solemnity.
Huyghe's The Host and the Cloud, which ran at the Crossing the Line festival, creates a surprising sense of solemnity in making ready for events.
The exception is Isa's reading aloud the names of slain African-American men and women, which he does less with stately solemnity than wounded wonder.
For another, our era of relative security (nearly a half-century without a conscripted military) has diminished the solemnity that accompanied politics in the past.
You have to seem ready to join the joy — or, as is often the case here, the solemnity — of having a song in your heart.
I was impressed by the solemnity of her pose and the expression on her face as she looks at the camera, yet beyond the photographer.
The fearmongering grew, sometimes perpetuated by authorities themselves but largely by the media, which has tended to report the clown hoaxes with straight-faced solemnity.
Even with his brass-plump band in full swing, Mr. Oluo's modernist jazz leans toward solemnity, suggesting a New Orleans funeral march orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg.
Angel Olsen: My Woman (Jagjaguwar) Previously, this St. Louis pseudofolksinger specialized in the jagged fragment, with fuzzy guitar static and/or earnest solemnity hiding patchy songwriting.
" Miller notes, "The solemnity is supposed to be a form of kindness, perhaps, but it can feel more like yet another loss, almost a premature death.
Far from the familiar autumn image of the extravagant sugar maples in New England, jointweed's stark beauty lends New York City's barrens a solemnity worth visiting.
But she'll be the first one to chuckle about it; you'd be remiss to mistake the freewheeling intellect of Hval's work for solemnity or self-importance.
When it was clear that the actor had beaten the farmer, my mother quietly left the room, and an air of solemnity and sadness filled it.
But Mr. Porter manages to embody some of the same principles — poise, savvy, listener validation — while punching it up with some contemporary solemnity and world-weariness.
The back half of the season took on the eerie solemnity, existential panic, desperate fealty and forest sequences that made "The Sopranos" cinematic, literary and philosophical.
"We would like to request that the solemnity of the royal cremation is observed, and visitors should refrain from any inappropriate or disrespectful behavior," it said.
The project's black and white palette highlights the unequivocal solemnity of oath making; the only areas of gray to be found are on the chalk rubbing contracts.
EVEN in the midst of great solemnity, while giving the most presidential-sounding speech of his career, Donald Trump could not quite shake his fascination with ratings.
Jones has repeatedly pushed back on questions about the political impact of his impeachment vote, arguing that the solemnity of his constitutional duty outweighs any political calculations.
When comic irony is synonymous with hipness, any other sensibility, whether it's religious solemnity or emo-style earnestness, just seems stodgy and out of touch by comparison.
What she brought was an especially intimate and approachable voice, that of an intellectual who doesn't mistake solemnity for seriousness and actually seems to be enjoying herself.
But Scheidt, for all his solemnity, is a crusher of a guitarist, a vocal force, and a gripping songwriter, touching on themes of depression, spirituality, and transcendence.
Free of Monday's solemnity, Mr. Trump tore into the news media for not giving him proper credit for his earlier statements, which he said had been consistent.
The Marine security guard at the embassy paraded the colors and the national anthem was played in a moment of solemnity in the midst of a fun party.
But I would not feel the profound solemnity and emotion of this moment, as I will feel when I watch her accept the nomination at the Democratic Convention.
Their solemnity and the way they internalize their reactions keep Annihilation from being any sort of conventional horror story, where overt terror is usually central to the story.
Funds named with words which suggest gravitas, that solemnity and dignity the Romans thought essential to leadership, attract more investor flows and perform worse, according to the study.
"Night of the Flying Horses," from 2013, best illustrated her sharply attuned ear, capturing both the vigor and solemnity of musical selections by the Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov.
"We see them in their black robes, seated up high on a dais, and accord them all the respect and solemnity that the justice system deserves," Prutschi said.
Why would he bring that insulting, racist, snooty remark into the solemnity of an event honoring some of our most treasured veterans who happen to be Native Americans?
Any pretense of solemnity, however, was quickly dispensed with as speeches were intermittently interrupted by chants from both sides emanating from both the public gallery and the deputies.
In refusing the injunction, Judge Au said barring the newly elected lawmakers would "result in the confusion of the public" and harm the "sanctity and solemnity" of the legislature.
In the wet, cold days of early winter, hungover from the holidays and awards season solemnity, we're ready for a romance, or a B-movie, or a horror film.
The tone here is warm, as Motherwell manifestly preferred warm paintings to cool ones, while the deep black, stretching across the bottom, lends the picture plane a tightened solemnity.
A composer who has long used popular material to poke at the solemnity of the classical tradition here seems to be exposing the dominating urge behind much pop music.
Given the deadpan, afflectless solemnity of the beats and her own energetic delivery, as if she's trying to construct cheer as a coping mechanism, 15 plays like a lament.
His decision to retire was met with solemnity in the Senate, where colleagues had noticed a decline in his once vigorous presence and a softening of his resonant voice.
The aides complain about reporters who they say do not respect the solemnity of the setting, even as Mr. Trump flouts many of the norms associated with his office.
When "the uncoachable one" approached Auriemma for tips on coaching his daughter and her teammates, Auriemma initially thought, "That poor kid," he said, breaking the solemnity of the moment.
In a riveting roll call — imbued with the incantations and solemnity of a church service — 100 senators, one by one, announced "guilty" or "not guilty" before a national audience.
"I greatly appreciate the solemnity with which all of our Members are working to honor our responsibility to protect American lives and values," Pelosi wrote in concluding her letter.
HBO's John Adams is the definition of Hollywood respectability, refined but stodgy; Patrick Walsh's drunken account of Jefferson publicly accusing Adams of being a secret "hermaphrodite" requires no such solemnity.
Here, over slow, groaning production by the Haxan Cloak, he sings high, tender and insistent, then breaks out into ecstatic harmonies à la Jodeci that resolve into church solemnity. J.C.
As a novelist, she has a wide tonal range, moving from sarcasm to solemnity, austerity to playfulness; she can toggle between extremes of subtlety and unsubtlety from book to book.
Yet the Piatigorsky Festival—a ten-day affair, divided between the University of Southern California and Disney Hall—was not the place to muse on the cello's reputation for solemnity.
The solemnity of the occasion was made more so for what was absent — tears, loved ones or even the names of the dead, who are each identified only by a number.
It's not all silence and solemnity, though: Happiness and mourning coexist on Samhain, says Betty Turner, psychic, healer, founder of Black Hat Society of Southeast Wisconsin, and owner of Wonderfully Wiccan.
And finally, the tone of solemnity and a subtle sort of human uplift, a sense of positivity and futurism that can reach past the limitations of fear and knee-jerk anger.
Season one wasn't received with nearly the same rapturous critical praise that seasons two and three have been; many found it too slow, too philosophical, too impressed with its own solemnity.
His music, shimmering with the spacey solemnity of childhood games, was taken up by influential figures like the impresario Pierre Audi, the composer Gyorgy Ligeti and the conductor Reinbert de Leeuw.
What I didn't realize was the grand solemnity and profound seriousness and the contribution to society at large that the evening represents to a lot of people, and that's on me.
About 313 million people watched the candidates spar inside a closed Washington television studio, an unusual format without any in-person spectators that was widely praised for its substance and solemnity.
The spirit of the film blends mourning with perseverance, and above all acknowledges, with impish wit and lyrical solemnity, the virtues of steadfastness, represented by Tommaso, and imagination, represented by Pulcinella.
" Mr. Rodriguez said in a statement that when "10 people from any background perish under such horrific circumstances, it is an occasion deserving of solemnity and respect, not self-indulgent cheerleading.
But she told host Seth Myers that the commander-in-chief "has as her highest priority the responsibility to concern herself" to the solemnity of the role, prompting cheers from the crowd.
So much solemnity, so many gestures, so much meaning made of jade rollers and Biologique Recherche Lotion P50, the ceremonial splashing of water and spreading of unguents and tapping of orbital bones.
At the same time, it won't fully satisfy many newbies: even at its most accessible, it's a blur of names, faces, and places, sometimes stuck together only with solemnity and self-importance.
In the past, Louis C.K. has questioned the value of life, mocking its sanctity and downplaying its importance, but this grim image goes just as far in undercutting the solemnity of death.
At one point, as the choir sang "glory, glory hallelujah," he turned to her in a burst of enthusiasm, causing the first lady to crack up, despite the solemnity of the occasion.
It is a scene you would expect, but when you listen in to their conversations, you get a slice of life that often seems at odds with the solemnity of the situation.
And I think in this day and age, there's too much blitheness with the term 'friend,' so I wanted to introduce a notion of solemnity to friendship and a sense of responsibility.
In a perfect world, each voter would approach the task with solemnity, taking time to watch all of the nominated films and putting aside biases to consider the degree of artistry onscreen.
When our servers overheard us talking about how excited we were to be there, they offered us a tour of the kitchen, whose precision and solemnity were absolutely thrilling to see in action.
The Gorgeous One performed other pre-match rituals with great solemnity and formality, but once the bell sounded he was capable of committing any vile trick or underhanded tactic to win a match.
Ms. Lemper, 52, is a kindred spirit to Mr. Coelho, 68, whose searching philosophical reflections on human existence have the solemnity of sacred texts and offer spiritual guidance without reference to a deity.
American popular culture celebrates women who combine power and success, like Sheryl K. Sandberg, the Facebook executive whose prescriptions on balancing a high-powered career with family life are received with great solemnity.
Accordingly, by the same oppositional logic that motivated Cage and Cunningham in the face of postwar solemnity, we are starting to see again some real kids'-party high jinks on the dance stage.
It sees match after match punctuated with 60 seconds' applause, each time delivered with the sort of self-regarding solemnity that was once the preserve of Comic Relief interludes and Robin Williams movies.
I rewrap his head in the plastic sheathing, replace the rubber bands, and hand him over, thanking them all with a slight nod, trying to stay in keeping with the solemnity of things.
But all that solemnity can be exhausting, and Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have turned to a text chain for moments of levity, exchanging GIFs, atta-boys and morale check-ins by phone.
" More straightforward is the move from solemnity to joy that marks the combination of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") with "Lucky to Be Me," from "On the Town.
"What we're doing, and what we're doing on this tour, is not something that should be thought about lightly," rapper and Korean-Canadian member Mark told the crowd in a rare moment of solemnity.
Just as Trump has thought little of shattering political norms at the White House, his time in Europe this week was marked by jarring juxtapositions of solemnity and insolence, often at the same moment.
Though all of this, the employees working to "capture" the polar bear actor maintain a disaffected solemnity—their blank eyes stare into the middle distance as they get pushed, run around, and shoot darts.
The martians represent the campiness and superficiality that is always present underneath the solemnity of movies like Independence Day and The Towering Inferno, revealing what's underneath isn't truth and revelation but trash and crap.
It's a sorrowful year in the live-action category, as it so often is, as if to suggest that solemnity and tragedy are the Academy Awards' primary mark of a respectable, awards-worthy production.
There followed an intensive seminar in the newsroom of The New York Times, during which issues of timeline integrity and what might or might not be canon were debated with appropriate vigor and solemnity.
The film's solemnity is seductive — as is Mr. Scorsese's art — especially in light of the triviality and primitiveness of many movies, even if its moments of greatness also make its failures seem more pronounced.
Written by Doug Jung and Simon Pegg, who stars once more as Scotty, and directed by Justin Lin, "Star Trek Beyond" refuses to be sidetracked by solemnity—the besetting sin of some previous installments.
Breaking his usual impersonal solemnity, Peña Nieto responded directly to a Trump tweet insisting that Mexico will pay for the wall he has promised to build to keep Mexicans out of the United States.
Democrats tried to maintain an air of solemnity during the proceedings, but the hearing often devolved into the theatrics and jockeying for political advantage at a time when public opinion on impeachment has stagnated.
Fans of "True Detective," whose creator, Nic Pizzolatto, wrote the novel on which this movie is based, won't be surprised to see a routine on-the-lam scenario treated with the solemnity of the Oresteia.
This method is familiar enough to anyone who has ever watched television, as are its rhetorical flourishes — feigned naïveté, false modesty, hand-wringing solemnity and other devices, all enacted for the benefit of the audience.
Despite his buttoned-up solemnity Deneen occasionally plays peekaboo with his sources, especially the left-wing ones, shining the klieg lights on certain parts of their arguments while eliding others that might complicate his own.
" "And yet, in a few days, another fire will shine in the night opening the solemnity of the solemnities," Christine wrote, in a sentiment shared by many of the testimonies, "that of the Resurrection of Christ.
It was fine when the monks chanted in Pali—that had a hypnotic solemnity about it—but less so when the meditators were supposed to join in, in English, reading from a sort of chorus book.
With a distinctly European soft-spoken solemnity, closely cut black hair, and an all-black uniform to match, De Bryuckere's presence feels like a passing shadow as she leads me through her latest body of work.
Their solemnity and apparent date contrast with the lively nightlife shots on the other side of the gallery, presenting what feels like a very different Mali — one that has already come down from its postcolonial high.
Part of "what distinguishes 'Memories of Murder,' setting it apart from rank-and-file thrillers, is its singular mix of gallows humor and unnerving solemnity," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The New York Times.
For fans of rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll in the 240s and '21990s, the death of singer and pianist Fats Domino on Tuesday elicited both nostalgic solemnity and a desire to celebrate his musical legacy.
The past few years have brought folksy screeching, glacial silences, drawling speech, powdery bleakness and spiritual solemnity; last year, a keening Ethiopian folk song was tricked out with an avant-garde mixture of yelps, croaks and hums.
I performed a mournful solemnity I had picked up from books about childhood capers like those of Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, and Frances Hodgson Burnett, and recalled a picture of Diana touching Black children with HIV/AIDS.
Only a couple of weeks after the Communion preserved its shaky unity by ostracising its liberal American brethren, the leaders of the Orthodox Christian church convened in all their robed solemnity, and at rather short notice, in Geneva.
"The solemnity with which they treated those situations and interacted with families and loved ones and just how important that responsibility was ... I was very impressed that all of them acted so presidential in those cases," Brennan said.
In tones that oscillate between solemnity and fierce ecstasy, the baritone Prisoner and his soprano interlocutor (sung here by the able soloists Tobias Greenhalgh and Chelsea Shephard) discuss, along with the chorus, the inextinguishable nature of human passions.
As is always the case with Trump, however, there is the chance of unexpectedly grabbing headlines with an off-the-cuff remark jabbing at his opponents or one that seems ill-suited to the solemnity of the occasion.
The song's continued emergence within that colonial context imbued it with solemnity, and today many view the tune as one of the foremost articulations of han — the bitter, unyielding melancholia that is often described as a national characteristic.
Our daughter's potential lung problem fully resolved on its own in utero — she was born asymptomatic at birth and has been ever since — but I remained designated as "high-risk," the pregnancy now haunted by solemnity and fear.
Emmanuel Macron was sworn in Sunday as France's new president, and its youngest in history, in a morning of pomp, circumstance and solemnity that included a 21-cannon salute and a ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier.
Mr. McConnell has also been cold to the idea of an immediate dismissal of the charges against Mr. Trump, telling colleagues that he believes the Senate must show that it is approaching an impeachment trial with solemnity and seriousness.
With its breathtaking four movements, led by the scintillating Megan Fairchild and Joseph Gordon in the first, the ballet was bracing, full of vitality and vibrating with rhythms as it covered an array of dance imagery: joy, solemnity, mystery.
In the missive, Trump claimed Pelosi of putting on a "false display of solemnity," an accusation the House speaker appeared to ignore when she arrived on Capitol Hill on Wednesday wearing all black, a nod to the day's gravity.
Such music made louder and more obtrusive illuminates the familiar contradiction between sensitivity and its use as a manipulative substitute for macho; Sheeran's soaring hooks flex their muscles with triumphant solemnity, as if asking you to applaud their grandiloquence.
The black-and-white film, emphasising the unforgiving slate of the plaza floor and the gaunt faces of soldiers hunkering between sandbags in the square's archways, reflect the solemnity and melancholy that seemed to settle over Madrid in the late 1930s.
"Future Day," once again moves the record on to an entirely different path and this gorgeous flute led piece that is cloaked in solemnity serves as a reminder that Fleurety are not here to be put in any kind of box.
I'm surprised by the solemnity of the whole image: the perfect silhouette of a dead animal, its muscles exposed with just a film of fat around, 13 men struggling to carry this cow that Dante personally picked from a local ranch.
The piano-pounding stasis of "All Tomorrow's Parties" and the solemnity of "Venus in Furs" came through; the drug-rush acceleration of each verse of "Heroin," sung by Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio, was recaptured, though more methodically.
So it's not surprising that late-night TV took this past weekend's deadly racism in Charlottesville seriously — but the depth of the resulting solemnity was still startling to see from shows whose first priority is usually just making people laugh.
Letters To the Editor: Re "A Royal Union for the 21st Century, With an Air of Black Culture" (front page, May 20): The ceremony in St. George's Chapel was more than a triumph of spectacle, solemnity and intimacy in perfect combination.
Recent American television adaptations like Wu Assassins, though, are stuck in their own solemnity, so eager to pay sincere tribute that they trudge where they should leap and gesture ineffectually where they should instead unleash their deadly soccer powers of doom.
Their solemnity and precision call to mind not only the historical connection between military regiments and clockwork machines, but also the similarities between marching bands and military brigades, as well as the bands and drum corps that accompanied soldiers into battle.
After an Off-Grid installer shows up on his motorbike, he opens the product carton with great solemnity; in an Ivorian village, I watched along with seventeen neighbors, who nodded as the young man held up each component, one by one.
While far from the maddening crowds that throng the city's famous St. Mark's Square, the cemetery has become a tourist magnet, both for those paying homage to the celebrities buried there and for those wanting to savor its peace and solemnity.
" In a fiery letter to Pelosi on Tuesday citing the Salem Witch Trials, an outraged Trump accused the House Speaker of putting on a "false display of solemnity" and asserted that the Democrats have attempted an "illegal, partisan attempted coup.
Half of the time he seems like a charisma-less version of Stanley Tucci's character in the Hunger Games with worse clothes, affecting an unearned solemnity, and the other half he looks like he's auditioning for the next season of The Bachelor.
The more you learn or the closer you are to its true meaning, the harder it is to balance the prescribed celebration with the sadness and solemnity of the sacrifices by the fallen men and women who are remembered on this day.
But when characters are wedged in the uncanny valley between live action and computer animation (featuring motion-capture wizardry that nevertheless leaves the eyes dead and lids that close with doll-like solemnity), their ability to rescue an incoherent plot is necessarily limited.
Starting the score with medieval solemnity and clarity, Esa-Pekka Salonen roused the Philharmonia Orchestra to a febrile performance, weaving around the singers' tiny changes of speed and tone and matching Golaud in the ebbs and flows of his desperate monologue about innocence.
In its first season, the show tried to tell the story of James Patterson's original novel of the same name with some level of solemnity, trying to wring drama out of scenes featuring bats dive-bombing solar panels or a bear snarfing wine.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Emperor Naruhito formally took up his post on Wednesday a day after the abdication of his father, saying he felt a "sense of solemnity" but pledging to work as a symbol of the nation and the unity of its people.
The instrumental textures of this score are still austere — Rinaldo Alessandrini, the conductor and director of the ensemble Concerto Italiano, has rejected interventions that beef up the opera's orchestration — but the range of feeling has grown, encompassing a sweep from solemnity to bawdiness.
Trump's remarks might have lacked the solemnity of President Barack Obama's announcement when U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden, or the passion of President George W. Bush's bullhorn speech from Ground Zero in 2001, but it was true Trump from start to finish.
Chris Weidman, Al Iaquinta, Rafael "Sapo" Natal, and definitely, absolutely "Suga" Rashad Evans, who recognizes perhaps more than anyone the solemnity and significance of the occasion and its meaning in the life of a lifelong fighter staring down the twilight of his career.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated his acquittal on impeachment charges with a pair of caustic, freewheeling speeches on Thursday that drew on White House pomp and the solemnity of an annual prayer breakfast to underscore the fact that he remained in office.
All these pieces of paper are issued with as much solemnity and authority as if they were of pure gold or silver; and on every piece a variety of officials, whose duty it is, have to write their names, and to put their seals.
Mr. Robinson, who was there and called the speech "baseball's Gettysburg Address," told The Daily News in 2014 that the sound system made it hard to make out all of Gehrig's words, but that an almost religious solemnity descended over the stadium as Gehrig spoke.
"It's like, 'Not only am I going to refuse to submit these documents, but I'm going to use a typeface that doesn't submit to the solemnity of the law, and Congress and public institutions," said Michael Bierut, a partner at the design firm Pentagram.
Splitting the difference between commercial slickness and graphic-novel solemnity, this Trek offers PG-13 violence, audience-pandering exposition dumps, cliffhanger endings, Game of Thrones–style pomp, and a touch of Lost's mystery-box plotting, but also poker-faced musings on quantum science, moral relativism, logic vs.
He has a way of making exasperated disgust hilarious (and a lot of his films take advantage of that, especially the Men In Black series), but he also does solemnity well enough to sell Deadshot's growing respect for Harley, Rick, and the rest of the team.
But nobody ever saw The Towering Inferno or The Poseidon Adventure for the nuanced character work, and Deepwater Horizon leans into that even as the requirements of the booming disaster movie it wants to be seem somewhat at odds with the solemnity of the actual subject matter.
While Ms. Rowling's astonishingly limber voice still moves effortlessly between Ron's adolescent sarcasm and Harry's growing solemnity, from youthful exuberance to more philosophical gravity, "Deathly Hallows" is, for the most part, a somber book that marks Harry's final initiation into the complexities and sadnesses of adulthood.
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, Trump excoriated the Democrats' impeachment inquiry, claiming that "(m)ore due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials," and accusing Pelosi of portraying a "false display of solemnity" during the impeachment process.
Spanish 'naturalism' — painting objects and people as they actually appear — can have a deeper emotional impact, as seen in the candor and humanity of Velázquez's portraits of buffoons or the austerity of Zurbarán's nearly all black-and-white paintings, like "Agnus Dei," which conveys the solemnity of Catholic Spain.
The ruins at Palmyra didn't really stand in desolate solemnity for 2,000 years until Isis came along to blow it up; until the late-1920s, most of the structures had long been toppled and buried, with the village of Tadmur built on its site and modern huts jutting against fractured colonnades.
That feeling of thrill, which characterizes Bieber at the start of his career as a newly discovered child pop star, was tinged with public trepidation as he matured into the inked young adult who accumulated a record of tomfoolery and criminality, eventually moving towards the solemnity found in his music today.
So I think each one of us, whether we're participating in these events as members of Congress or as citizens and voters, ought to be aware of the gravity and the solemnity with which this question should be approached and take our responsibilities seriously in a very orderly and dignified way.
The 1931 short "The Darktown Revue" is a blatant provocation: In addition to featuring a clownish preacher in a black-in-blackface skit, this parade of negative stereotypes opens with a choir performing the minstrel song "Watermelon Time" with an incongruously pretentious solemnity (the essence of what Micheaux's audience might have deemed "dicty").
"As absurd as the Clinton impeachment was, it was handled with, generally speaking, the proper solemnity," said Russ Feingold, a former Democratic senator from Wisconsin who was the only member of his party at the time to vote with Republicans against a motion to dismiss the articles of impeachment against Mr. Clinton.
But the casualness of the form is at odds with the solemnity of West's confessional mode, which demands obsessive attention to craft, and "Violent Crimes" and "I Thought About Killing You" are the clunkiest examples to date of the pomposity that inevitably arises whenever he tries to plumb the darkness in his soul.
But listening to the president's farewell address, I was hit with the force of a brawler that the decency and dignity, the solemnity and splendor, the loftiness and literacy that Obama brought to the office was extraordinary and anomalous, the kind of thing that each generation may only hope to have in a president.
"I'm excited and happy that it's coming to a resolution, but I'm struck both by the weight of my family and the solemnity of the occasion," John Graykowski, an American great-grandson of the Krauses, said in a telephone interview from Xanten, Germany, where church officials were expected to turn over the painting on Thursday.
President Donald Trump spent most of Thursday in Normandy, France, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day and honor the Americans who fought and died to liberate France from Nazi occupation in World War II. But he didn't let the solemnity of the occasion stop him from talking trash about his political enemies.
Black Midi: Schlagenheim (Rough Trade) In an age when banal pop product is slow, restrained, and even, this experimental English guitar band stand up for the rock verities not by straining for expressionist solemnity but by getting silly: joyfully pointless tempo changes, a shifting array of jittery guitar effects, countless moments of unexplained absurdity for their own sake.
Alter's task, as he explains it in a hugely entertaining and irreverent companion study, " The Art of Bible Translation " (Princeton), was to offer a modern English translation that had some of the solemnity and sublime simplicity of the King James Version, while being more accurate (apparently, the King James committee had an imperfect grasp of Hebrew).
The fact that her love was a chimpanzee does nothing to diminish the solemnity or the grief she feels as she approaches the catafalque where the ape is laid out and sings her first big number, "No More Wars": No more wars to fight White flags fly tonight You are out of danger now Battlefield is still.
Even the broad corridor, up which we walk after entering, and off which the suite of north and south galleries elegantly peel, have been roundly, thunderously Kiefered floor-to-ceiling, penning us in between huge steel and glass vitrines, 30 of them in all, processing beside us, watching over us with the usual degree of solemnity, as we walk.
The NFL's humorlessness and soaring grandiosity means that every week is talked about this way, which is why we get all those jarring and accidentally hilarious mismatches between tone and meaning throughout the season—a black-clad Carrie Underwood groaning "oh Sunday night" with church-y solemnity before every Sunday Night Football broadcast, right before two teams launch into a four-hour puntfight that ends in a 6-6 tie.
Given this context, it's not surprising that Louis's music is steeped in solemnity, whether he's nostalgic for an old relationship on "Too Young," or openly grieving the loss of his family on "Two of Us." Unfortunately, Walls feels like a confessional series of diary entries set to drums and tinny acoustic guitar, and while the frank intimacy is a refreshing contrast to, say, Liam, ultimately the album feels lackluster and sonically generic.
" Though he got in a dig at the plot — "the story of 'Star Wars' could be written on the head of a pin and still leave room for the Bible" — Canby complimented Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford (as Luke, Leia and Han Solo), noting that "everyone treats his material with the proper combination of solemnity and good humor that avoids condescension," and called C-218PO and R22019-D2 "the year's best new comedy team.
To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
But it also can't be denied that Ritchie, who hasn't been deemed a director of creative interest since his early Lock, Stock ... and Snatch days, and certainly least of all for his hugely lucrative Sherlock Holmes entries, does pull off some quick-witted and clever sequences here; he doesn't want to bore or approach narrative conventionally, so he's found ways of conveying a good deal of information very quickly, taking an aggressive approach to supplying backstory and never ever slipping into solemnity or sanctimony.

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