"Law Abiding Citizen," a blunt and sadistic revenge thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, occasionally pauses from the mayhem to stage a solemn debate about law, justice and morality.
In October in The Times Mr. Scott called this "a blunt and sadistic revenge thriller" that "occasionally pauses from the mayhem to stage a solemn debate about law, justice and morality".
Inside the stately Borough Hall Courtroom, surrounded by solemn emblems of the law, panelists Tananarive Due, Patrick Somerville, and Colson Whitehead bantered about the end of the world, shambling zombie freaks, and why hyper-dramatized dystopian scenarios are so appealing to writers.
"While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern," he said.
Yesterday's 90-minute ceremony was a more formal affair, a blend of solemn ritual and canon law to invest authority in the new archbishop, but it was full of pageantry and music, celebrated with vespers, a service of evening prayers, choral psalms and scriptural readings, unfolding as the day waned.
"While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern," he wrote in a statement.
"This is the same as any criminal case, except a person in public office has taken a solemn oath to obey the law," Mr. Williams said.
Glass always marveled at the complacency with which his father-in-law delivered these solemn addresses; he wondered if it was all a tease, a toying with the tolerance of those around him, a test to see if there was a limit to what he could get away with.
"In 1965 when President Johnson signed the landmark Voting Rights Act into law, he proclaimed, 'The right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless.' Today, as Attorney General, I have the privilege and the solemn duty of enforcing this law," Holder said, speaking in a packed auditorium to a supportive audience.
In his warnings of "crime and violence" and his solemn pledge that "I am the law and order candidate", Trump sounded notes eerily similar to Richard Nixon's campaign rhetoric in 1968.
Under Jewish law, a vow is a solemn thing.
