Sentence examples for solemn power from inspiring English sources

Imagine that: a screening agent entrusted with the solemn power to wave through a teenager in flip-flops en route to Honolulu.

As for me, after assuaging my pride with one more assault on Sticky Wicket (where the bumps had become unmanageably huge), I was happy to dally for the rest of the day carving effortless-looking turns on blue squares and communing with the still and solemn power of a landscape nearly 20 feet deep in snow.

The Romantic poet Shelley knew that looks can deceive: "[Mont Blanc] gleams on high, the power is there; the still and solemn power of many sights and many sounds with much of life and death".

As Pickett and I worked our way to Room 303, abandoning cameras with the guard until the judge ruled on whether or not we could bring them into the courtroom, the solemn power of the justice system was evident.

Anne Washburn's audacious and provocative play, staged by Robert Icke and designer Tom Scutt with a solemn absurdity, celebrates the power of storytelling, the imperfections of memory and asks what might endure: Homer or Homer Simpson?

The Scottish referendum campaign closed with the solemn vow of more powers to Scotland.

"You can almost feel the ardor behind the solemn faces: lucky stampedes of power mourners, about two thousand of them, wearing out the red-carpeted aisles of the Kennedy Center".

Mr. Kuderna played it with a core of serenity throughout, and a lightness that brought out the power of the solemn passages.

But, while "Power" is comparatively solemn about its protagonist's tormented double life, a grim fantasy of bad-boy authority, "Empire" is as loosey-goosey as summer stock: for all his threats, Lucious feels about as menacing as Christopher Walken's Captain Hook.

The leaders of the Communist Party of China were huddled in the Great Hall of the People for their once-a-decade handover of power, a ritual as solemn and controlled as Singles Day is giddy and grassroots.

It was a solemn but spirited reminder of the unifying power of music.