Sentence examples for solemn religious from inspiring English sources

A solemn religious chant plays in the background.

Consistories, or ceremonial gatherings of cardinals, traditionally combine solemn religious pageantry with festive celebration.

The mood of the nation is grim, after the 4th Arab-Israeli war, which began when Egypt & Syria attacked on Israeli solemn religious day, Yom Kippur, Oct. 6.

Some organizations of both Shrine and Sect Shintō have recently begun to compose solemn religious songs to praise kami, making use of Western musical forms.

You see it in the dramatic way that he has placed a burned-orange dress in the dusty plaster-and-putty setting of the original Bourdelle studio, or a sweeping black gown in the solemn, religious bedroom of the sculptor.

The attack with the largest number of casualties was in Baquba, north of Baghdad, as a group of Shiite pilgrims began observing Ashura, the solemn religious commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.

Some were solemn during religious prayers, others expressed impatience with rabbis.

Since then, it has been adapted by a number of English-language poets, but its solemn or religious tone is a thing of the past.

TEHRAN — A solemn Shiite religious mourning ceremony near a mosque in southeastern Iran was shattered by a double suicide bombing on Wednesday, leaving at least 39 people dead and many more wounded.

The movie has become enmeshed with the most solemn Christian religious days of the year -- Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday today and Easter Sunday -- when Jesus' final days and Resurrection are remembered in church, not just movie theaters.

By this act, the most solemn of the religious year, the high priest atoned for his own sins and those of the priesthood.