Obama's solemn appearance in Hiroshima came at the end of a roughly weeklong trip to Asia that had begun with a visit to another former wartime adversary of the United States, Vietnam.
Book Ten of the Analects displays what might appear to be an obsessive concern with the way Confucius greeted persons in everyday life, e.g., if he saw they were dressed in mourning dress, he would take on a solemn appearance or lean forward on the stanchion of his carriage.
All we see of his gifts as a speaker are excerpts from solemn public appearances.
In a speech here that combined elements of a campaign appearance with a solemn remembrance of lives lost in Iraq and a restatement of his foreign policy principles, Mr. Bush said that "the regime of Saddam Hussein has passed into history" and that it was time to end more than 12 years of sanctions, which have all but halted international trade with Iraq.
In the former, the first appearance at the altar of Javier Bardem, solemn-faced and in ecclesiastical robes, provoked an outburst of mirth among some at the premiere, presumably unintended by the director.
Dressed in a silk mandarin-collared black suit and square wire-framed glasses, Chan — action star, comedian, and, lately, cultural envoy for the Chinese government — chatted with a small group of solemn-looking Chinese businessmen and Hong Kong dignitaries before his appearance at the Walter Reade Theatre, at Lincoln Center.
In a widely available video of Clinton's appearance at Davos in January, the former president looks solemn nearly to despair.
Find "The Stick" and another Paar appearance when Jonathan, during an early stand-up, suddenly asks the viewers with solemn seriousness, "Did you ever undress in front of a dog?" If you fail to laugh at what follows, you may have expired.
Shortly before the convention, Mitt Romney had pressed the coal theme with an appearance in Ohio, where he stood with a group of sooty miners whose sad, solemn faces seemed to underscore their concern about big government.
KABUL, Afghanistan — In his first public appearance since rushing back to Afghanistan after the assassination of the country's leading peace broker, a solemn President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that the Taliban had gained access to their target by wooing senior leaders with an audio CD suggesting that peace was within reach.
