Sentence examples for solemn reply from inspiring English sources

He mimicked Mrs Merkel's solemn reply: that countries leaving the euro would end "the European dream".

The hunters pompously congratulate each other with the phrase: "Hunter's hail!" To which the solemn reply is: "Hunter's thanks!" Then the dirty work begins – the animals must be skinned and dismembered in preparation for the head getting mounted on the wall.

'Meester,' he replied, suddenly solemn.

The prime minister, also suitably solemn before the National Assembly, replied that he preferred to wait for scientific advice on how to do this safely and without harming France's environment.In other words, the tragedy of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has become a political football in France.

The former editor of La Repubblica said the pope had jokingly said to him: "Some of my colleagues have told me you will try to convert me [to atheism]." When the Italian replied that his friends had said any conversion would probably be the other way round, Francis replied: "Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it doesn't make sense".

"If terror demands a civic reply," he wrote, "what better one than a solemn memorial to those lost and a space for the most fundamental exercise of democracy in space, the freedom to gather in a place that is our own".

He sang, in a dark voice, "What barbarians!" The Muscovites replied, "O brothers... we shall swear a solemn oath in blood!" A bearded, hawk-nosed man in a suit — the Met's Napoleonic general manager, Joseph Volpe — entered the auditorium, positioned himself in front of the stage, and gazed fiercely at the proceedings.

The outraged spontaneity of Abramson's reply to my question, the religious image she chose to describe her relationship with the paper, reinforced the solemn stereotype, setting out her spiritual fittingness as defender of the faith, as the incumbent in a role regarded by most within the world of American journalism, and among some admirers beyond, as papal in its prestige and its authority.

Solemn, indeed.

Gruden looked solemn.

Most were solemn.