But the work itself is austere and solemn in intent.
Once, he glimpsed her from his window as she reported, preoccupied and solemn in a dark, wide-skirted cloth coat, for treatment across the street.
They were undoubtedly his Sunday clothes, and he looked stiff and solemn in them.
His words were apologetic and solemn in his 1,220-word 1,220-wordatement.
Moments of silence and solemn memorials in the home countries of the largest number of victims stirred anger and sadness among the families of the 196 Dutch victims, the 42 from Malaysia, including the 15-person crew, and 39 Australians headed home from European vacations or on their way to an international conference in Melbourne on the global fight against HIV/AIDS.
It is not exactly religious, but there is something almost holy, and certainly quite solemn, in the way the country marks Victory Day.
You can hear it in Cymbeline's call for "solemn music", the "sad and solemn music" in Henry VIII, the "sudden twang of instruments" in The Two Noble Kinsmen, and especially in The Tempest, with its repeated calls for "solemn and strange music" and "soft music".
In place of the simple, flowing melody that listeners associate with "Blowin' in the Wind," for example, Mr. Corigliano has written a highly chromatic setting, marked "solemn" in the score, and mostly in the lopsided meter of five beats to the bar.
Fiachra's resting expression was raked-in and solemn, like the heap of cinders left after a fire has gone out.
