Sentence examples for solemn recognition from inspiring English sources

The more formal remembrances, borrowing from assorted religious and military traditions, were affecting in their measured, cadenced tone, their solemn recognition of mortality and loss.

"I used to have hypochondriacal things of like, 'I'm worried about these headaches', and my doctor used to always laugh it off," says the director, as I nod in solemn recognition.

Nestled between our day of solemn recognition of the fortune-telling wisdom of groundhogs and the observance of the death of Jesus and his resurrection in the form of an enormous gift-giving bunny, we have the punching bag of holidays: Valentine's Day.

*** When he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of UNICEF, then-Executive Director Henry LaBouisse, said: "…to me, the great, the most important meaning of this Nobel award is the solemn recognition that the welfare of today's children is inseparably linked with the peace of tomorrow's world".

Solemn and dignified, Canaris craves recognition as a patriot who endeavored at great personal cost to overthrow Hitler.

In response to Burgoyne's surrender, Congress declared December 18 , 1777as a national day "for solemn Thanksgiving and praise" in recognition of the military success at Saratoga; it was the nation's first official observance of a holiday with that name.

Solemn, indeed.

Gruden looked solemn.