Sentence examples for solemn blessing from inspiring English sources
With a solemn blessing from Pope Alexander II and the emperor's approval, William prepared to enforce his claim to the English crown.
A solemn blessing is read and repeated: a memorial to those who have been "disappeared", murdered, silenced and displaced; those whose names they know, those they don't.
There were beautiful solos from clarinet, flute and oboe, fine and strong moments from the woodwind ensemble as a whole, and thrills all through the trombones' solemn blessing in the finale.
Congress begins each day's session in solemn prayer; "God bless America" is a plea that comes automatically to any modern president's lips (along, in Bill Clinton's case, with biblical quotations and words of contrition); and among the nation's 100 senators only Colorado's Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Washington's Patty Murray admit to having no religious affiliation.
Today, in a solemn ceremony in a grassy clearing, they did, blessing 14 cows being given to the people of the United States.
C wing's chairman was a solemn, faintly dreamy armed robber called Calum, and with his blessing I was free to wander the wing by myself.
Despite such optimism, the tone was solemn at both Sunday morning's Mass and the afternoon blessing service.
And, when the new pope asked for the people's blessing before he gave them his, Riccardo gave his solemn verdict: "A great".
Yet it sometimes seemed that only a work-in-progress cathedral could be an appropriate site for much-loved services like its annual blessing of the animals, a ritual that managed to be solemn and silly at the same time.
After the solemn procession of an honor guard and the singing of "God Bless America" by Daniel Rodriguez ("the singing policeman," who is now retired from the N.Y.P.D ., it was time for what Kaye called "the big moment".
Most performances that I hear today are neither solemn nor placatory; they're boastful in the sense of suggesting that God uniquely blesses America, that of course God blesses America.
