A — Their solemn responsibilities.
O'Neill's serious, almost solemn treatment of the struggle of a poor Swedish-American girl to live down her early, enforced life of prostitution and to find happiness with a likable but unimaginative young sailor is his least-complicated tragedy.
One of its hotbeds was Seville's working class district of Triana, a bastion of Andalucía's Roma people who sang evocatively about their lives and struggles in solemn but sensuous laments.
In a quiet corner across the street from Zuccotti Park, a cluster of 25 solemn-faced protesters struggled one night to give Occupy Wall Street what critics have found to be most lacking.
'I just think I'm a better person,' he says, his head bowed in theatrically solemn contemplation, 'because I'm always struggling to be a better person.
Herzen and his friend Nikolay Ogaryov, who, like Herzen, was influenced by the heroic libertarianism of the German playwright Friedrich Schiller, took a solemn oath to devote their lives to continuing the Decembrists' struggle for freedom in Russia.
President Bush used the solemn day to assert that the United States was engaged in "a struggle for civilization" that would be determined in part by the course of the war in Iraq.
"I was tremendously impressed by the very solemn way that she commemorated those Irish republicans who lost their lives in the struggle for independence, how she acknowledged the importance of the Irish language and, probably most important of all, when she acknowledged that she had wished that things had been done differently or not at all," he said.
The gravity of this struggle, and the radical consequences of inaction propels me to place a solemn charge upon you all -- on your ordination day, you made a promise to promote and defend all that the Church teaches.
