One afternoon, near the end of summer, I noticed Marcus having a solemn phone conversation in the other room.
Across campus, I hear fragments of the type of solemn, clipped cellphone conversations normally reserved for the stress of finals week.
These aren't quiet conversations, nor solemn, reverent dialogues between objets d'art: these are rollicking debates at a cocktail party.
Unfortunately much of the show is taken up by solemn, often unintentionally comic conversations among these three, with Lecter tending to the high-flown ("Killing must feel good to God too; he does it all the time") and Bloom supplying more of a common touch ("Dogs keep a promise a person can't").
Understandably, the conversation got solemn, and I got quiet, as they shared thoughts on the grieving of the young couple.
As we left the building where they keep the fake beards (and some of the nicer wigs), Williams steered the conversation in a more solemn direction.
This doesn't mean that every conversation has to get deep, solemn and philosophical.
This documentary, which has a solemn, anxious score by Philip Glass, incorporates White House tapes of conversations about Vietnam that Mr. McNamara had with both presidents, along with vintage clips from World War II and Vietnam.
The hundreds of people sitting under the tent carried on conversations with friends through most of the solemn parts of the ceremony during which the pandit, a Hindu priest, chanted ancient words in Sanskrit.
The film, which has a solemn, anxious score by Philip Glass, incorporates White House tapes of conversations about Vietnam that Mr. McNamara had with both presidents, along with vintage clips from World War II and the Vietnam War (Holden).
