Sentence examples for solemn thought from inspiring English sources

This is a remarkable human accomplishment, & one that deserves much solemn thought.

"No'm", he said, and after a moment of some solemn thought, "Ye see, I've never been fixed so I could".

As a result, she published only Poems and Parodies (1854) and Poems of Faith, Hope and Love (1868), but one of her religious verses, "Nearer Home" (sometimes called, from the first line, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought"), became widely popular as a hymn.

The auctioneer is preparing to issue his warning to close the deal and our multinational aristocrats are in solemn thought.

You can practically read the thoughts on their solemn faces: "Who is that?" "What if that were my son or daughter?" "I can't imagine what his family must be feeling".

Understandably, the conversation got solemn, and I got quiet, as they shared thoughts on the grieving of the young couple.

Some of the "girlfriends" look solemn, some smile and laugh, some are lost in thought.

And then, later, someone — perhaps Stanton at the time, or perhaps only Hay long afterward — thought that there was more point and solemn originality in what someone else (Hay from the very moment, perhaps?) thought he had heard, and decided to change it.

Television rarely leaves you alone with your thoughts, but for a couple of shining, solemn hours in yesterday's dawn-to-midnight coverage it did.

In no time Mr. Ax banished thoughts of winter as he played the stately, solemn opening chords of Chopin's Polonaise-Fantaisie, an elusive late work, more fantasy than polonaise.

It would be easy, far too easy, to hold these solemn teachings up as a corrective to contemporary right-wing Catholic economic thought.