Sentence examples for solemn notes from inspiring English sources

"He took the harder and more honorable path," Clinton says, over the solemn notes of a pianist channeling Frederic Chopin on quaaludes.

In between taking solemn notes at yet another senseless death in the projects, Wren puts on a tie and heads to a work function.

Take a long walk through Arlington National Cemetery, for example, and any day of the week, rain or shine, you are likely to hear the 24 solemn notes of taps echoing among the tombstones as another veteran is buried.

She does as much with individual and solemn notes as the most accomplished bluesman.

Finally, this week's roundup ends on a solemn note.

5.20pm GMT President Barack Obama strikes a solemn note in his inauguration address.

A solemn note, a minor chord, and the trailer turns into a deep, elongated sigh.

Muddled and often infuriating, "Human Smoke" sounds its single, solemn note incessantly, like a mallet striking a kettle drum over and over.

The 28-year-old tore into India's hapless pacemen from his first delivery, crunching 19 boundaries after the match began on a solemn note following tributes to Hughes.

On a more solemn note, Ms. Fleming appeared before President Bush, heroes of Sept. 11 and an NBC viewing audience in the recent superstar Concert for America at the Kennedy Center, singing "You'll Never Walk Alone".

Liszt drew the piece's title from a line by French poet and statesman Alphonse de Lamartine: "What is life but a series of preludes to that unknown hymn whose first solemn note is intoned by death?" The philosophy inherent in those words led generations of critics to draw somewhat misguided parallels between the poem and particular melodies in Liszt's work.