But he was solemn as he answered, "Not guilty, Your Honor," to the 24 counts -- including bribery, extortion, racketeering and tax fraud -- read to him by Judge Janet Bond Arterton.
Citing the NME's 1970 burial of the Beatles' swansong (the music weekly called it "a cheapskate epitaph"), Slovenia's solemn, four-headed totalitarian answer to Frank Sidebottom declared: "What we are doing is rewriting history, which, every now and then, has to be corrected and reinterpreted to be useful for the future".
"Twelve Baltimore City residents answered the solemn call to serve.
The answer was not in the solemn, carefully worded interview he gave on "Nightline" on Friday.
Andy Kurtzig is the youngish, progenitor of JustAnswer who has a real sense of duty--he's solemn about his company's value proposition for customers--to answer their questions right with promptness.
Why, in short, is current affairs television in its most basic form – the bulletins, the boredom span, the questions asked and answered, the rituals of fairness and balance – still solemn and often somnolent business as usual?
She maintains a solemn look, staring down at her hands or the desk, quietly answering my questions.
Here's an idea for an Obama ad: a montage of Clinton's Sybillish personalities that have surfaced during the campaign with a solemn voiceover at the end saying, "Does anyone want this nut answering the phone?" How is it that she became the one who's perceived as more equipped to answer that 3 a.m. call than the unflappable Obama?
Beyond the veneer of gravitas provided by percentage figures and the solemn accounting of a discovered wig, the report raised more questions than it answers.
