Sentence examples for be less solemn from inspiring English sources

However, he learned from his student friends to be less solemn, and acquired a sense of humour that, judging from his autobiography, never left him.

Diddy called it artistic, but Mr. Iovine was less solemn.

Bioh is less solemn about this than Lillian Hellman was when she wrote about a schoolgirl and betrayal, in "The Children's Hour," in 1934, and she's less cool than Muriel Spark was when she looked in on those mischievous students in her 1961 novel, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie".

It's less solemn, you're not sitting quietly and being very respectful; you could be eating a sandwich and having a fag or something.

The president's commemoration of a national tragedy began with an arrival that was less than solemn.

Corey Pavin was no less solemn, and a lot more coy, especially when the subject turned to the elephant – or in this case, the Tiger – in the room.

"The Price of Blood" (preceded by "The Wrong Kind of Blood" and "The Color of Blood") also invokes dangerous women and the above-mentioned gargle, although Mr. Hughes's approach is slightly less solemn.

Jarvi's New World Symphony, a rather solemn affair, is less successful.

What Iñárritu has created is less an adventure than a solemn pilgrimage, suppressing the giddy flights of "Birdman," and, as for DiCaprio, his forte — a comic impishness, last released in "The Wolf of Wall Street" — is sternly curbed.

But it is less unsettling than McEwan's earlier solemn-gory fables since its humorous dimension is everywhere apparent -- granted that the humor is distinctly black.

Perhaps liberals are less inclined to be waggish about their politics — or more inclined to be solemn about their pets.