Sentence examples for solemn debate from inspiring English sources

In a painstaking and solemn debate each deputy cast his vote individually and explained it.

In October in The Times Mr. Scott called this "a blunt and sadistic revenge thriller" that "occasionally pauses from the mayhem to stage a solemn debate about law, justice and morality".

"Law Abiding Citizen," a blunt and sadistic revenge thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, occasionally pauses from the mayhem to stage a solemn debate about law, justice and morality.

Rather than lay these questions out in a solemn debate, the director of "NO," Pablo Larraín, has the wit to enshrine them in the film's appearance: it was shot on video equipment from the period, resulting in a shimmering flare that will both stir and embarrass the spirit of anyone who came of age in the eighties.

Kelly Dolen's procedural masquerades as a solemn debate about the pros and cons of extreme vigilantism as an alternative to a dysfunctional legal system, but its characters and scenarios are so artificial that writer Stephen M. Coates' arguments are no more relevant to real life than anecdotes from an ethics textbook.

A website, Anglicans Online, tells us: "The debates were solemn rather than acrimonious in tone: members quoted Latin to each other, even Greek, and the meaning of Leviticus xviii, verse 18, was deeply pondered".

"Italy needs a government that can carry out structural and institutional reforms which the country needs to modernise," said Berlusconi, who looked tired and solemn during the morning's debates.

With the White House and Capitol Hill approaching agreement on the language of a resolution authorizing the use of military force against Iraq, Congress is on the threshold of a solemn and rare occasion -- a debate over war and peace.

Orphans has already garnered long, solemn columns in the broadsheets, endless debate in the blogosphere and any future tour will sell out as many shows as its author is willing to play.

They are solemn commitments made after wide-ranging democratic debate.

Gary Bauer, Mr. Keyes's rival on the conservative right, upbraided him during the Republican debate in New Hampshire for demeaning the solemn quest for high office.