Sentence examples for solemn terms from inspiring English sources

The Korean satirist PSY might not put it in such solemn terms, but that's exactly what he has done, and he has been rewarded for it.

Melinda One meets on solemn terms a classical composer (Chiwetel Ejiofor) at a fashionable party and he proves as egregiously sensitive as he is monstrously self-regarding.

21. 3 Macaulay, History of England from the Accession of James the Second (London, 1855), 45.... the Constitution would have been justly obnoxious to the most conclusive objection if it had not recognized and confirmed it in the most solemn terms.

In "The Plot Against America," the multivocality is achieved, for the most part, by having a political catastrophe, debated by many people in solemn moral terms, be narrated through the eyes of a child, who lacks morality, who wants only his mother and his stamp collection, and who has no fine phrases to cover his self-seeking.

In The Taming of the Shrew, Baptista demanded: "Doff this habit, shame to your estate, an eyesore to our solemn festival!" The term was invoked with proper acknowledgment to its coiner in 2005 when plans were unveiled to build a massive metal shed in Stratford-on-Avon as a temporary home for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

All the German political parties united in a solemn protest against these terms.

Yet "intellectual" (translated in fashion terms as solemn and inscrutable) is the word most often associated with Ms. Kawakubo.

Closing deals in front of shining lights and TV cameras might be exhilarating, but reflects poorly on the solemn act of a long-term agreement.

The Museum of Modern Art featured it in a 1951 exhibition, 14 years after it went off the market, terming it "a most solemn expression of streamlining".

Activists on the right and the left trade charges about whose fault the tragedy was, because there is no event too solemn not to be turned to short-term political advantage.

It's possible to imagine the Kremlin announcing, with solemn regret, that Snowden has violated his residency terms and is now being extradited to the US.