"solemn setting" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a serious, formal, or somber setting or environment. Here are two examples: - The church was decorated with candles and flowers, creating a solemn setting for the funeral service. - The courtroom was filled with a solemn setting as the judge delivered the verdict.
To describe "The Pin" as a tragic version of "The Blue Lagoon" is not to slight the solemn setting.
The horrors of the Sierra Leone war have frequently perturbed the solemn setting of The Hague courtroom, with its officers in black robes with neatly starched bevvies and its crimson-robed judges high on the dais.
"It was such an impressive, solemn setting in a great big wood-paneled courtroom, with a silver-haired judge," Mr. Rose said in a 1997 interview with The Daily News.
As critics continue to fault Mr. Obama less for his administration's overall response to the spill than for what they say has been his own slow and reactive leadership style, the ultimatum to BP and the president's use of the solemn setting of the Oval Office escalate his personal engagement to a new level.
Boris is going to take good care not to collapse the scrum, but already he has introduced to this solemn set piece a note of irreverence.
When he's taking himself most seriously, delivering a solemn set of opinions, ad-lib homilies, and ponderous generalizations, he will abruptly stop and say, with a grin, "You can't con a con man".
Bringing to mind a little the "weightless" aesthetic as coined by UK experimentalists Mumdance, Logos, and co., the track is built around a melodically convulsive, chopped vocal sample, and grows around a solemn set of synth melodies into something quite beautiful.
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.
However, Iñarritu could also be prone to earnestness, as in Biutiful (2010), a laboriously solemn Barcelona-set drama about migrant workers, cancer and the afterlife.
Her latest, Certain Women, an adaptation of short stories by Maile Meloy, sees Reichardt tackle a contemplative ensemble drama that recalls the solemn tone set by her earlier work.
These are solemn international undertakings setting a firm timetable for Palestinian statehood and reflecting global impatience, yet Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are stalled.
