Sentence examples for solemn speech from inspiring English sources
Diane's speech to Will was followed by a military judge's solemn speech to Alicia, after the soldier was found guilty.
With men and women dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Bloomberg gave a solemn speech from the deck of the Intrepid and helped toss a commemorative wreath into the HudsonRiver.
In a brief and solemn speech, Mr. Gore said that he recognized that the tribes' agenda -- including better health care and more economic opportunities -- had received too little attention.
In 1980, when he accepted the Maxwell Prize, the highest honor in plasma physics, listeners expecting a solemn speech instead heard lengthy recordings from Jack Benny's old radio show while Dr. Stix chuckled at the podium.
There was a perception abroad, President Joachim Gauck said in a solemn speech, that Germany was "the shirker in the international community" and had used its Nazi past as an excuse to duck out of rough-and-tumble diplomacy.Soon after, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the foreign minister, began an earnest public consultation called Review 2014.
It was January 2005, and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had just finished a solemn speech about abortion rights — urging all sides to find "common ground" on the issue and referring to abortion as "a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women".
Gultan Kisanak, the city's co-mayor, and other local politicians made solemn speeches.
There were well-rehearsed jokes and solemn speeches, and somewhat more spontaneous hugs and tears.
As solemn speeches filled the air, the assembled crowd witnessed, to their astonishment, the eruption of Mount St. Helen's.
It was like being present at a South African gig: there were convulsions of hilarity, outbursts of indignation, solemn speeches and snatches of song, bear hugs and pumping handshakes.
And yet they managed to turn it into an absurdist send-up of teen dramas, with characters delivering garbled versions of the solemn speeches seen on the likes of The OC and Smallville.
