Sentence examples for solemn act from inspiring English sources

We are met together to consummate a solemn act.

That a guilty plea is a grave and solemn act to be accepted only with care and discernment has long been recognized.

(The narrator, Marcel, an anxious traveler, compares foreboding Parisian skies to those in the work of Mantegna or Veronese, "beneath which only some terrible and solemn act could be in process, such as a departure by train or the erection of the Cross").

There is something sick about reducing a solemn act to a few characters.

A referendum is typically a solemn act.

You might even catch a bride and groom in a solemn act.

It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotation to God Almighty.

The Fourth of July is the 232nd birthday of the United States, and it will be observed as John Adams prescribed in 1776: a "day of deliverance" in more ways than one, with "solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty... pomp and parade... shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more".

John Adams, who helped edit the declaration, attributed the text to God as well as to Thomas Jefferson and expressed his wish that future Americans would celebrate the great day "by solemn acts of devotion" (along with bonfires, gunfire, the clanging of bells and other raffish pursuits of happiness).

"It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty.

It is a solemn judicial act that sets the course of the law for hundreds or thousands of litigants and potential litigants.