Sentence examples for higher solemnity from inspiring English sources

Davies's Kabuki act is so eccentrically hip that it provides comic relief in what turns out to be a very painful exercise in the higher solemnity.

He has to endure not just maternal put-downs but a merciless barrage from the fists and feet of Chang, who performs his savage acts with a high solemnity, as if they had some sacramental function.

Here and there you could hear the traces of the years in her singing — not every note is in tune, and some spread as they used not to — and always that high solemnity that has (sometimes absurdly) long characterized her art.

A4 Papal Conclave Begins Today The conclave to elect a new pope marries the highest Catholic Church solemnity with one of history's longest-lived electoral experiences.

Frank, who bears more than a passing resemblance to the notorious Boston thug James (Whitey) Bulger, is not isolated in high-walled solemnity, like the Italian grandees in "The Godfather".

A cat-and-mouse thriller with delusions of grandeur, "The Statement" arrives wrapped in an intimidating mystique of high-minded solemnity that makes its vagueness and incoherence all the more disappointing when the pieces don't add up.

This cat-and-mouse thriller with delusions of grandeur arrives wrapped in an intimidating mystique of high-minded solemnity that makes its vagueness and incoherence all the more disappointing.

The church dissociated itself from its own former joyous demeanour, offering instead ritual, solemnity, high aesthetics.

"Gravitas is a word that pundits such as William Safire and William F. Buckley love to use," notes a questioner irritated by his inability to find this weighty word for "solemnity, high seriousness" in his limited dictionary.

Instead the emphatically secular space merges resolute solemnity, high design and wit.

The actors deliver lines with the bombast of a comic book or the whispery solemnity of a high school staging Hamlet.