Sentence examples for solemn question from inspiring English sources

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With you, and not with me, is the solemn question of 'Shall it be peace, or a sword?' " Seward urged Lincoln to conclude, instead, with "some words of affection," of "calm and cheerful confidence".

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But I have a few solemn questions that grow out of this.

(We hear a Scottish interviewer asking solemn questions such as "Do you miss being in the office environment?") At the same time, they seem to have bowed under the pressure of the series' success and given viewers what they thought they wanted: happy endings.

If anything, both Silas's dead birds and her commemoration of a trail on which women march to their deaths opens the way for the flood of solemn questions and inferences ultimately rendering individual concerns inconsequential, if not absurd, when posed against the overarching and inviolable forces of politics, history, evolution, and ecology.

The gravest offence, in Lord Irvine's eyes, was to call into question Britain's solemn commitments on human rights, notably those made after the second world war in the European convention on human rights (ECHR).

This simple question is a solemn look into how deeply "just words" can become entrenched into our way of life, into our very being.

Standing on the foundation of a home destroyed by Katrina's floodwaters, this memorial serves as a solemn educational outpost, raising hard questions about the history of the levee system on the lower Mississippi River.

When the question arose in a solemn quodlibetal disputation, the secular master Jean de Pouilly, for example, declared the Scotist thesis not only improbable but even heretical.

His relationship with Roosevelt is not so much worshipful as familial — there's lots of affectionate teasing, and little resort to the solemn encomium, though this is, without question, an admiring portrait.

She was interviewed by a solemn, elderly official who asked innumberable questions and finally scribbled a word or two on a pad in front of him.

What happens to the platitudes used to patiently instruct us about differing witness accounts and unanswerable questions, and all the solemn wishes that a camera had recorded the confrontation between Michael Brown, who was eighteen, and officer Darren Wilson?

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