He was gifted in solemnity.
The observance of it has waxed and waned in solemnity in the years since -- mostly waned.
The season, he said, is a great leveler, when rich and poor and people of all races unite, first in celebration and later in solemnity.
Whether steeped in solemnity or sprung from pure silliness, festivals around the world never cease to intrigue, amaze or, at the very least, entertain.
Their latest album, "I Am Very Far" (Jagjaguwar), is more bombastic and straight ahead, with less of the overarching punched-in solemnity of their thematic records.
At the end of the week, four dozen of us boarded a convoy of minivans in the White Swan's driveway and headed to the U.S. Consulate to take a communally administered oath in great solemnity in an airport-lounge-like waiting room and be handed our kids' visas.
Ushered in with solemnity, each car preceded by a red flag, it soon burst through these legislative restrictions and still celebrates its victory with an annual procession of holy relics that roar and splutter from London to Brighton.
Vigor in dancing contrasts with solemnity in music: the slicing arms, slides to the knee, leaps and darting momentum fill the eye.
Despite my recent immersion in the solemnity of the tea ceremony in one of the poshest shops in China, I do not pretend to understand or appreciate luxuries, nor the fact that when a developing country starts getting just a little bit rich, luxury goods stores are the first things to pop up and apparently flourish.
The grisly subject matter is both hyperbolized in its obscenity and minimized in its solemnity, crafting a stomach-jerking recipe that has captivated and infuriated the art world for twenty years.
It's there, too, in the stories we tell ourselves of sun deities, star signs, eclipses; in the solemnity of candles lit for Hannukah, Diwali, Christmas; in our celebration of May mornings and solstices, in the great heights we scale just to see the sun rise or set.
