Despite relying on China for trade and weapons, he had flouted Beijing's entreaties to drop his nuclear program and had even gone so far as to test missiles on days when Xi was trying to host solemn occasions, a gesture that seemed either calculated or unconcerned with Xi's embarrassment.
And lo, there was Franco, making solemn progress amid a host of minders, hangers-on, photographers, and other orbital persons.
"Zohan" burlesques a host of solemn and bloodstained issues, turning warriors into sex hustlers and would-be Rotarians.
"Zohan" burlesques a host of solemn and bloodstained issues and turns warriors into sex hustlers and would-be American Rotarians.
"It's the Chinese people's solemn pledge to the world to host a successful Olympic Games," Wang Pingjiu, a staff member of the Beijing Olympic organizing committee, was quoted as saying in an article in the People's Daily Online.
His host, Professor Robin Marshall, later received a solemn phone call informing him: "This is the BBC.
The film honors are an awkward hybrid — a telecast about the movies set in a theater — that require their host to oscillate between jocular chitchat and solemn introductions, while sprinkling in just the right amount of self-deprecation.
When others chimed in that Costolo seemed not to be taking the issue seriously, he suddenly became solemn: "I *think* I have an acute understanding of the topic & host of related issues," he wrote.
The host: Jonathan Ross locks horns with Mickey Rourke The Bafta crowd were a bit solemn about Ross's gags: a function, I suspect, of the ceremony itself becoming more and more conscious of its own Hollywoodised self-importance.
