"The Price of Blood" (preceded by "The Wrong Kind of Blood" and "The Color of Blood") also invokes dangerous women and the above-mentioned gargle, although Mr. Hughes's approach is slightly less solemn.
Bilingual high jinks continue with the current YouTube craze for misheard lyrics, including a remarkably convincing misconstrual of "Carmina Burana," whose dire invocation, "O Fortuna," becomes the only slightly less solemn exhortation "Gopher Tuna!" In the real world, of course, translators have a certain kind of shadowy power.
This version will be eight inches longer than the last generation, and the front of the car deliberately designed to resemble a happy face will be slightly more solemn in order to appeal to men as well as women.
Bodies folding and unfolding like flip-flop toys, a solemn, slightly feral virgin (Ms. Freeh) and her sweetly dopey would-be lover (Benjamin Johnson) hit just the right emotional notes in a dance in which nearly every move was unexpected but seemed right.
"Upright, timid but well-meaning," Banville serves as Michon's Everyman, a solemn but slightly pitiful middle manager in the literary world whose dim blue flame burned briefly white in the presence of Rimbaud's self-immolating genius.
But the slightly bizarre melded with the solemn.
Slightly preening, somewhat wary, unnaturally solemn, as if he had indeed felt descend upon him the burden of the future.
Friends and family, University officials and employees, and several members of the Corporation as well as past president Neil L. Rudenstine were all on hand to mark the occasion in a ceremony that was filled with beautiful music as well as readings and addresses that were both solemn and at times, slightly silly.
Governmental buildings, especially in the past, were designed to present a solemn, awe-inspiring, majestic, and even slightly ominous look, both in their architectural composition and their interior treatment of spaces.
At 36, likable, unshakably solemn, bespectacled and compact, with a slightly graying beard, Mr. Eliasson may not immediately seem like the sort of person who would dream up extravagant feats of illusion and theatricality.
