The next day, the mainstream media uniformly agreed that the contest had been "won" by the incumbent, Joe Biden, whose rebuttals consisted mostly of mugging and smirking over Ryan's solemn efforts at prescription.
The other is gaunt, internal, plain, solemn, lyrical, not yet granite from effort or suffering, although thrust beyond the pale of love already, his likings running along new channels, the old ones dry.
Berlioz found the work excessively solemn, but at least Dietsch made an effort to characterize Troïl as someone out of the ordinary.
The script brings this remarkable detail to our attention for the sole purpose, it seems, of prompting solemn applause (part of the relentless P.R. effort to rehab his image as a good guy).
In the glow of the phone, his doggy face had the solemn puzzlement of someone making an enormous effort to understand.
"Is it not our solemn responsibility to assess the success of any rehabilitation efforts you may have undertaken prior to emerging so suddenly and so forcefully into the public eye?
"Variations Sérieuses," in spite of its rather solemn title, is itself one more variation, Mr. Wheeldon's effort to fill the State Theater with a frothy backstage comedy, a piece requiring nearly as much acting as movement.
In making such a weighty speech in such a solemn forum, Mr. Lazio sought to counter Mrs. Clinton's efforts to use the subject to reinforce doubts among voters about his experience and maturity.
