"Homo Politicus" ought to be a solemn book, but it reeks of unseemly glee.
Though I was only half finished with Arcadia, I put up two huge pieces of butcher paper on opposite walls in my studio in Florida, and in the breaks from my dark and solemn book, I would turn to the other project, writing a gold-toned scene from the wife's perspective, then running across the room and writing from the husband's greener point of view.
It's the subject of most of the very solemn and earnest books written on boredom.
Since then, he's played Julia Roberts' bearded love interest in Erin Brockovich, Big Tobacco's chief spokesman in Jason Reitman's Thank You for Smoking, and Two-Face in 2008's solemn comic book caper The Dark Knight.
"Grandparents Song," by Sheila Hamanaka, is a lovely, solemn, politically correct book about a girl and her Native American maternal grandmother, Irish maternal grandfather, African-American paternal grandfather and Mexican-American paternal grandmother.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis) As dry as a high school history book, solemn as a funeral service, humorless as a Politburo meeting, bloated as a waterlogged corpse and unbalanced as a bout between a debutante and a sumo wrestler.
All of which suggests, perhaps, a rather solemn, self-important book, whereas Your Face Tomorrow is in fact a work of sublime lunacy, closer in spirit to Sterne or Cervantes than some of the more modern mega-tomes – A la Recherche, for instance – to which it has been compared.
The thicker and more solemn of the books has been put out by Vogue, which is continually reinforcing its status as leader in the field with episodes of self-regard.
PEARSON--Sylvina C. Solemn and sincere remembrances book-tart, 11PM12PM.
They were carrying large books with solemn titles: "The Medieval World," "Montcalm and Wolfe," "The Jesuit Relations".
The movie was also criticized because the movie was comical, when the books were solemn and serious with occasional wry humor.
