Despite the general absurdity of the books' storyline, Lemony Snicket continuously maintains that the story is true and that it is his "solemn duty" to record it.
Then, know thyself, and then record a solemn vow and let it be, I can — I will — I dare — I do".
Monger saw the sixth track "The State of Dreaming" as a solemn offering from the record for its intellectual lyrical content, which he described as one of several tracks that "reveal the lonely rebel, defiantly eating lunch alone, secretly wishing for acceptance".
The difference is clear when you go from, say, the Berlin Philharmonic's solemn, square-footed 1981 recording of the Fourth Symphony, under the direction of Herbert von Karajan, to a series of live recordings that the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra made in the nineteen-fifties.
But people are inclined to shoot their mouths off and it is my solemn responsibility to set the record straight".
A paranoid drug trader balefully plays homophobic Eminem-style records, while his solemn gay neighbor loses his laid-back lover.
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?
Self-consciously pitched as an underground scene's concerted bid for mainstream popularity, the record was a little too compromised and earnest, opening with a solemn, string-led instrumental called Flying into Tokyo.
Roy initially underlines the sentiment with solemn, tense synth work, but through its lively percussion and claps, the record loosens up into something lighter and brighter as if to offer some semblance of optimism for the future.
The records were sealed on Dec. 24, 1907, in a solemn ceremony in the basement of the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris as a gift from Alfred Clark, the head of Gramophone in France.
