It was a solemn and important controversy….
He noted that if a regular person won the lottery, he might roll around on the floor, kicking his legs up with glee, but when bankers won their arbitrary lottery, they instead became solemn, pompous, overwhelmed with their own importance and stateliness.
By exhibiting the painting we wanted to acknowledge the importance of this extremely consequential and solemn image in American and African American history and the history of race relations in this country.
"China attaches great importance to that and has immediately raised a solemn representation with the D.P.R.K.," Mr. Qin said, using the initials for North Korea's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Many early Memorial Day events on the Union side took on a similar character of both solemn honoring of the Union dead, as well as remembering the importance of the emancipationist cause.
On the vast Vivian Beaumont stage, "Parade" was dark and solemn — as it is here — but also somewhat bloated with self-importance.
Working with a toy camera among solemn journalists reporting a traditional news event, I felt I was largely undermining the reality of the event and its importance as a piece of news.
"I was tremendously impressed by the very solemn way that she commemorated those Irish republicans who lost their lives in the struggle for independence, how she acknowledged the importance of the Irish language and, probably most important of all, when she acknowledged that she had wished that things had been done differently or not at all," he said.
Such instruments particularly when they enunciate principles of great and solemn importance may nevertheless create strong expectations about authority and control.
