Sentence examples similar to a note of solemnity from inspiring English sources

At the same time, because these strictures cut against personal anecdote or casual comment, they sometimes fostered a false solemnity, to say nothing of a straining to end many columns on a note of Olympian impartiality too often verging on "Time will tell".

These actors skip middle C altogether — staying away from that sustained note of sexy solemnity that's supposed to stand for heroism.

There were echoes of Feldman in David Lang's "Gravity" (2005), with its slow-moving patterns of descending notes, played here with a judicious balance of solemnity and airiness.

This was still a party, but with an air of solemnity about it.

A dumb sense possesses them in a kind of solemnity.

But she has been encouraged or permitted to be sombre to a point of solemnity.

Somehow he manages to infect Matt's predicament with a kind of solemnity.

Certainly, it has acquired a veneer of solemnity, but too often that veneer is a cover for business as usual.

It remains a supremely eloquent piece of singing, but it exudes a kind of solemnity that afflicts the production as a whole.

The installation of a Catholic archbishop typically offers a balance of solemnity and revelry, of spectacular pageantry and pious introspection.

BBC Today's Justin Webb reports from Leicester Cathedral: "A combination of solemnity... and a tourist attraction".