Sentence examples for solemn sense from inspiring English sources

There was a solemn sense to the stage as well.

But there was also a more solemn sense among soldiers that they would return home altered by their year away.

This impressive ceremony adds little to the solemn sense of responsibility with which I contemplate the duty I owe to all the people of the land.

What prompted the Colliers to attend a Congressional district meeting for the first time was an almost solemn sense of the magnitude of the health care issue, and its place in determining the scope of American government.

Rather, he describes evolution accurately as "no casual surmise but a theory in the solemn scientific sense, a grand explanatory system that accounts for a vast range of phenomena and is in turn supported by them.

In the final novel in Kalisha Buckhanon's trilogy on black American life, Solemn Redvine senses that a baby in her rural Mississippi trailer park may be her half sibling.

She often was described as an old-fashioned writer whose books and stories read well because of their underlying qualities: "the Dickensian coincidence, the solemn omniscience, the sense of lives destined to intertwine," Sheila Weller wrote in Ms. magazine.

However, he learned from his student friends to be less solemn, and acquired a sense of humour that, judging from his autobiography, never left him.

There was no obvious thematic link between Mr. Veilhan's choreography and Ms. Radigue's music, but both seemed to combine simple motions in a solemn manner, with a sense of playful exploration subtly discernible.

The triptych of sonatas he completed a few years later were the last of his 32 works in the genre, their solemn melodies conveying a sense of solitude and resignation.

The meeting was undertaken with a sense of solemn pageantry.