Sentence examples for solemn figure from inspiring English sources

In "A Brother With Perfect Timing," Mr. Ibrahim - a dignified, almost solemn figure at the piano - reveals himself as a casually charismatic storyteller, serious but never pompous.

He imaginatively recreates the textures of life in 18th-century England and shows an admirable determination to question received wisdom – which results in his disappointingly, but I think correctly, scotching the seductive notion that Barber was the solemn figure painted by Joshua Reynolds.

This is a different kind of poetry performance rather than the lone, solemn figure of the poet standing on stage, a whole ambience has been created with a canopy of interactive light bulbs that glow and dim in response to the words.

The 37-year-old former Sydney Roosters, Parramatta Eels, and South Sydney Rabbitohs star cuts a solemn figure in the sheds of Erskineville Oval as his team, the Redfern All Blacks, prepare to do battle with arch-rivals, the Coogee Wombats.

In its solemn figures, like the sari-clad subject of the iconic Tagore painting, "Mother India," the Progressives saw a strident new nationalism made worse by strains of English romanticism.

The two-character drama "Red" does not turn the maker of the hazy rectangles into a solemn romantic figure.

At the novel's climax, Hugo describes how Marius "began to have an inkling of how incredibly lofty and solemn a figure this Jean Valjean was.

Let us hope the receipts will be more helpful to sober education than is the film.For, once more, the talents and resources of a lot of people and a large studio, John Farrow, writer-director, and a considerable cast of minor stars have been put to the tiresome task of shaping a flow of ponderous pictorial tableaus through which a solemn masculine figure, more myth than man, parades.

A pair of solemn ceramic figures from ancient Mexico, the man holding a bowl and the woman with her arm raised as if in welcome, sit in a showcase a few feet from James Jacques Joseph Tissot's 1883 pastel of a glamorous 19th-century woman perusing an art portfolio and from Alex Katz's 1983 serigraph of a tense married couple facing each other.

He is a celebrated popular author and poet whose work has touched people deeply – a kind of solemn Paulo Coelho figure who is now however wrestling with writer's block, unable to get his desperately sensitive words down with an old-fashioned fountain pen on what looks like parchment.

His voice is so steady and solemn that I figured the line as a warning: don't trust me; I'm not easy.