Sentence examples for solemn air from inspiring English sources

The house on Berkeley Street had the stunned, solemn air of a place in mourning.

He walks off the green with the solemn air of a man who knows he's jiggered his chances.

We were met at the door by José Soto, president of the school's student group, a tall adolescent with a solemn air.

Ms. Orlean eloquently describes him as dark, "slim-nosed, with unexpectedly dainty feet and the resigned and solemn air of an existentialist".

The branding of Novak Djokovic takes on a more solemn air upstairs in Srdjan's office, where a religious painting shows the late Patriarch Pavle, head of the Serbian Orthodox church, with Novak's face painted in luminous tones below him.

"Prime Minister Abe wishes for the G7 leaders to have the chance to visit Ise Jingu and share the dignified and solemn air of the shrine," a foreign ministry spokesperson told the Guardian.

As solemn speeches filled the air, the assembled crowd witnessed, to their astonishment, the eruption of Mount St. Helen's.

Just ask Queen Victoria, whose rounded frame perches atop hundreds of plinths across the Commonwealth, with an air of solemn, severe solidity.

Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds — save where the orange work cart clatters by, laden with Sheetrock and tubs of joint compound.

At the time, the consensus was that Tweedy, though talented, was the lesser of the band's two songwriters, a poppier understudy to the visionary Farrar, who, even as a young man, had an air of solemn authority about him.

The movie's relative restraint when it comes to gore, nudity and bad language makes late-night broadcast television its ideal venue, as does its air of solemn boredom.