Sentence examples for general solemnity from inspiring English sources

At several points the depiction of Ulla's isolation takes on slasher-movie overtones, which undercuts the general solemnity but doesn't really add anything to the experience.

The Golden Globes are often seen as a cheerfully rackety outfit given colossal importance simply by preceding the Oscars, but they are also an institution that, in specifically honouring comedies, favours that lighter kind of movie which can be overlooked in the general solemnity of awards season.

"If the original is solemn, then solemnity must be what is solemnly lampooned".

I love poets who make me laugh, since I think comedy is better than solemnity at addressing the general awfulness of things.

But in its exaggerated solemnity — the slow-motion way the general salutes the casket, the crispness with which the flag is folded into a triangle — a military funeral movingly conveys the grief of the institution.

R. Gods and Generals No passion or humor leaks through the solemnity of Ronald F. Maxwell's lumpy three-and-a-half-hour Civil War film.

It is released in ample time for Father's Day, and is all about an intergalactic general, unfortunately named Cypher and played with baffling dullness and solemnity by Will Smith.

Generously, he added: "There could be no faulting his solemnity.

Charles Blomfield, Bishop of London was hostile in general to railway funeral schemes, arguing that the noise and speed of the railways was incompatible with the solemnity of the Christian burial service.

While the notion of such a work had played in Berlioz's mind for some time, it was eventually commissioned to commemorate the death in battle of a French general; here, the traditional bidding prayer remembered the recent tragedies in France, invoking a silence which in turn made the solemnity of the opening string passage and the responding voices' plea for mercy all the more emotive.

Why the solemnity?