That daily institution took the form of an essay, conversation piece or discussion of not-too-solemn ideas.
Above all, he disdained the idea of a "solemn hypocritical 'trial of war criminals,' with all the slow cruel pageantry of the law, which after a lapse of time has so strange a way of focusing a romantic light on the accused and turning a scoundrel into a hero".
Rakoff nodded in solemn agreement, although she had no idea who this Jerry person was.
Don't get the wrong idea, either, from the solemn name of the 18,000-square-foot building: the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education.
He held down a sudden impulse to laugh at the idea of them, a solemn queue stretching out into the corridor, downstairs to reception, back through time.
The idea was to look as solemn as possible, like we were contemplating".
Like so many 32-year old males in this region, he works in software sales, and since this is San Francisco, we were swapping app ideas and pledging intellectual property rights in solemn, slurred tones by hour three.
Indeed, it sometimes seems that both Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush have decided that maybe Calvin Coolidge had the right idea: "I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President.
"As a dancer, you just have no idea what Michael Jackson meant to me," he said, drawing solemn nods from the group.
Finally, on First and Last Time the choral vocals make explicit the hymnal ambience of this music, with the idea proposed by Seasfire that life and love are solemn affairs best approached with religious awe.
