Sentence examples for serious ceremony from inspiring English sources

"It's a perfectly serious ceremony," he says.

There was a really serious ceremony that actually made me well up a bit.

One of those in the congregation, Irene Lunghi, described it as "a serious ceremony, simple and also a bit humble, like St Francis himself".

The road trip to Dayton – which included flights on Marine One and Air Force One – gave Mr. Obama a chance to spend some relaxed time with Mr. Cameron before a day of ceremony and serious talks on Wednesday.

Under the direction of the young chef David Chang, who has been celebrated to the point of deification, Ko boldly investigates how much — or rather how little — ceremony should attend the serious worship of serious cooking.

Since then, however, scholars have gone into the archives and emerged with serious studies of royal finances, ceremony, philanthropy and political power, often linking this most elite of elites to the concerns of ordinary people.

Yet, one part of the ceremony gave me serious pause.

With all the goings on, you better believe that the fashion community had some serious thoughts on the awards ceremony -- and what better place to sound off than Twitter.

Their ceremony was short and serious, except for a few giggles in the bits about being richer or poorer.

"To them the ceremonies were a very serious thing but they still seemed to have a lot of fun," he added.

"Imposing on a cardinal to stay out of the public view and forbidding him to take part in official ceremonies is a very serious punishment," Cardinal Schönborn said.