Sentence examples for a solemnity from inspiring English sources

There's a fear, a solemnity, about this quiet.

But there's an undeniable earnestness here, a solemnity.

Victor Muss conducted with a solemnity that was amusing given the dancers' endearing giddiness.

First, it gives a solemnity to the sticky business of handing over the moolah.

There was a solemnity to his voice that was hard to reconcile with the laughing man of years ago.

Why does David Cameron now react with a solemnity more appropriate for a terrorist outrage or a natural disaster?

Marriage itself combines an awesome solemnity – an improbable vastness of commitment – with a playful, tender, intimacy, the small sweetness of the everyday.

And a blanketing solemnity made a few efforts at humor simply awkward.

There's still a certain solemnity to sending someone an oseibo: It affirms your expectation of a long and stable relationship.

It's not only a (her voice takes on a mock solemnity) very, very serious film.

Lochner became one of Cologne's greatest painters, combining naturalism with a masterful sense of colour and design into a festal solemnity of representation.