Sentence examples for after solemn from inspiring English sources

I just leafed through it, hour after solemn hour.

After solemn song three women rapidly pleated lengths of red fabric and transformed them into skirts, pinning them over their voluminous white robes.

After solemn tributes to 10 fallen soldiers, the gathering dusk echoed with optimistic speeches from officials highlighting improvements in healthcare, agriculture and education brought by foreign troops and their cash, and the growing strength of local security forces.

A16 NEW YORK/REGION B1-15 CardIsaLaid Laid to Rest After Solemn Ritual Cardinal John O'Connor was entombed beneath the altar of St. Patrick's after a televised funeral Mass that was attended by 3,500 people.

After the solemn ceremony, he met relatives of some of the 54 Britons who have died in Iraq.

After the solemn procession of an honor guard and the singing of "God Bless America" by Daniel Rodriguez ("the singing policeman," who is now retired from the N.Y.P.D ., it was time for what Kaye called "the big moment".

Brown points out, in a nice touch, that Boulanger's flight occurred exactly one day after the solemn inauguration of the Eiffel Tower, built for the Paris Exposition of 1889.

Even the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., where President Bush was reading to pupils when he learned of the attacks, had no special events today, after a solemn ceremony last year.

After a solemn pause, he says: "You're carrying the torch, so that your children and their children can have a better world to live in .The speaker is not some New Age guru, but Ronald Johnson, a major-general in the Army Corps of Engineers, speaking to more than 300 local residents and soldiers at a sustainability conference at Fort Carson army base in Colorado Springs.

After the Solemn Mass — a pageantry-laden ceremony celebrated mostly in Latin — he boarded an open-topped jeep and rode around St. Peter's Square as thousands of cameras, smartphones and tablet computers immortalized what unfolded: The pope waving cheerfully, kissing several babies and tenderly hugging a disabled boy.

On opening day this year, Mr. Maroulis, who most recently appeared in "Rock of Ages" and "Jekyll & Hyde," stepped to the microphone a moment after a solemn memorial for victims of the Newtown massacre and gave a virtuosic rendition of the anthem that seemed to take flight.