Sentence examples for solemn intent from inspiring English sources

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.

But the work itself is austere and solemn in intent.

(I read the missing article as a joke: a head-shaking exclamation, with an implied ellipsis: "Look at the... " and "Knarrmean?" rather than a solemn statement of authorial intent).

Her aesthetic is that of concrete art, isolated images placed in a grid; her intent is a silent rebuke, a solemn challenge to a world that, even now, is turning again to nuclear power to solve its problems.

Solemn, indeed.

Gruden looked solemn.

Most were solemn.

The girls looked solemn.

Stearns, however, was solemn.

The atmosphere was solemn.

It was very solemn.