Sentence examples for given the solemnity from inspiring English sources

Given the solemnity of this far-fetched development, it's also possible that Coetzee is gently parodying messianic delusions among people who have nothing else to sustain them.

And every so often he deploys a white smile, one as engaging as it is unexpected, given the solemnity of his long, undertaker's face.

The movie "does try something a little bit new and perhaps, given the solemnity that has overtaken so much comic-book-based filmed entertainment, a little bit risky," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in May.

Given the solemnity of the times, several of Mr. Bush's friends say, he has restrained his natural jocularity but also sought a balance so as not to set too gloomy a tone.

She walked in there with her skirt swaying from her lovely hips, and her hair, which she had tied up in a ponytail, given the solemnity of the occasion, also swinging from side to side, and for the same reason her usually bare feet were in a pair of sandals.

But given that solemnity is so easily mistaken for gravity, and the best novels can be undervalued for providing too much fun, the award serves a very useful role – rewarding Jacobson, for instance, a decade before the Booker jury roused itself to give him his due.

Victor Muss conducted with a solemnity that was amusing given the dancers' endearing giddiness.

The Marine color guard and the Marine band in the outfield grass gave the muggy evening the solemnity that Theodore Samuel Williams deserved.

Mr. Lau, whose features increasingly look cut from stone, gives the character an implacable solemnity.

The orchestration is large and lush, with percussion writing that often gives the music a ritualistic solemnity.

Its spirituality and attendant solemnity give the story and the movie an air of importance that would both justify and conceal its emptiness, that would convert its defects into virtues.