"Because then," he explains solemnly, "you don't waste the love that's gone into it".
Knausgaard spends a lot of time with the word "Trauma" on his back – the name of his junior football team, as he explains solemnly to an amused visitor.
Anyway, what I remember most is my elementary-school teacher's expression as I explained, very solemnly, why I had missed the first day of school.
"Even if he doesn't win the World Cup," explains Korbiakis solemnly, "he is always our hero here".
To one enthusiastic pep-talker, he solemnly explained his fear of commercial success.
Testimonial statements, she explained, are ones solemnly made to establish facts about past events.
My host solemnly explained that they were Laguna teenagers, that his son was probably among them and they were surely drinking, too.
Sheik Mansour Ahmed, a PPP loyalist who earlier solemnly explained to me that the march was a ploy by Islamists to pressure President Zardari into easing up on the militants, now said Gilani was "not playing a positive role".
"Let me go on the record as saying I believe in Satan," said Perry, who then solemnly explained that, beginning in the nineteen-forties, the Evil One has been using "the secularists and the left" as his allies in keeping "people of faith" out of "the public arena".
"He's building on notions of duty and charity, human fulfillment and love of country; ideas anchored in great religious teachings and the thinking of the ancient Greeks and Romans and in the principles of the founding fathers," Mr. Bridgeland solemnly explained.
