A solemn study claimed that one in five male drivers had his attention diverted from the highway for as long as five seconds, the time it took to kick a soccer ball across a field.
Cruising past Baptist churches, double-wide trailers, bright green tobacco fields and solemn graveyards, we stopped our rented minivan every few minutes to browse through wares set out in the driveways of private homes, along sidewalks, in high school parking lots, in former chicken coops and on flatbed trailers parked in muddy fields.
De Quincey is fixated, instead, on the "solemn wind" that "swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries . . . the one sole audible symbol of eternity".
In a nod to the state's American Indian history, the Olympic torch would be led along the solemn Trail of Tears, not far from where field hockey would be played in Tahlequah.
At a memorial service held at St. Martin-in-the-Fields some in the crowd dabbed their eyes during the solemn ceremony that recalled the pain and the memory of those who had perished.
The Army band, with sousaphones flashing, marched to the center of the field, arrayed itself there on a round stage, and began softly playing solemn hymns.
For the first time the solemn occasion arises where you receive the flag on the day before going onto the field of honor; seek to crown it with an undying glory.
They had two faces: the dutiful solemn and submissive one they presented to gringos — "Anything you say, boss!" (I recognized this from the asparagus fields) — and the noisy, mischievous, helpful face they saved for one another.
As he hobbled off the field, holding his fluorescent yellow cleat in his hand and watching the replay on the big board, the solemn scene summed up a ragged first half.
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.
