Sentence examples for solemn hearing from inspiring English sources
Behind the neoclassical columns of the Supreme Court this week, the nine supreme justices of a nation of laws not men, you understand convened for a solemn hearing of the arguments for and against striking down the most far-reaching social legislation Congress has enacted for decades.
But although Brian Zeger, the pianist, gave a devoted performance of these solemn pieces, hearing them one after another made them all sound monotonous.
The commission heard solemn testimony that the change would disrupt vital communication networks.
The first of the three narrative voices in this rather solemn story is heard in excerpts from "Tammyland," the best-selling "travel memoir" Gretchen Waters wrote on a pilgrimage to the home places of the singer-songwriters she admired.
Everywhere, he hears solemn talk of recession, as if the same reality that has defined most of his life has finally caught up with the rest of the nation.
In 1980, when he accepted the Maxwell Prize, the highest honor in plasma physics, listeners expecting a solemn speech instead heard lengthy recordings from Jack Benny's old radio show while Dr. Stix chuckled at the podium.
It isn't a question of classical tastes against pop; it's a question of small forms heard in motion against large forms heard with solemn intent.
You hear the solemn speaker prose.
A friend who was driving through the Poconos last weekend aimlessly turned on his car radio; tuned in WVPO, in Stroudsburg; heard a solemn voice….
(Posterity has enshrined the song as Handel's "Largo"; in fact, it is a Larghetto: more lighthearted than the solemn anthem one often hears under this title).
"What they're saying is, they heard a solemn promise to give the right-wing extremist wing of the Republican Party control of our Supreme Court and the interpretation of our Constitution".
