'solemn events' is correct and usable in written English.
You would use it to describe something that is serious, grave or solemn. For example: "The funeral was a solemn event for all in attendance."
But the weight of symbolism does not produce quiet or solemn events, Ms. Hashimoto said.
"What do you think that means?" After the Remembrance Day service at the local war memorial and as happens after such solemn events, some of us become a tad maudlin.
There are no BBQs and fireworks like Independence Day or solemn events as on Memorial and Veterans days or the "day of service and action" that Martin Luther King Day has become.
Maria Morris Hambourg, the curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum, wrote in a foreword to the 1996 book, "Treadwell," "Modica's art is about important and solemn events -- those internal, molding moments we are mostly powerless to hold or articulate".
In addition, thousands of people across the metropolitan area will join in religious services, commemorations and other solemn events leading toward Sept. 11, when the city plans to mark the anniversary of the terrorist attack with readings, concerts and other tributes to those killed at the World Trade Center and to the rescue and recovery workers who labored at the site for months.
Her tears were streaming as she recounted the terror of not knowing, and her story ended with the solemn events of Jan . 7 the day Kazbek's body was washed and buried under a mound of earth in the Muslim cemetery on the banks of the Sunzha River.
Returning The Card was a solemn event.
For Saeed, Ashura is a solemn event.
Hundreds of spectators lined the perimeter of the moat watching the solemn event and kept a respectful silence.
On Friday, Stroger will be the unconventional site of a solemn event: Ms. Reese's ordination as an Episcopal minister.
For many people, it might not seem right to incorporate high technology into such a personal and solemn event.
