Sentence examples for solemn use from inspiring English sources

"Ordinary Witnesses" indulges in a few too many changes of lighting at the end, and the solemn use of a guitar seems pretentious.

What remained, as the procession moved up West Street, was an enormous hole and a solemn obligation to use it wisely.

The men -- Carl Coleman, Winston Hilton, Barrington Irving and Solemn Joseph -- used an Oklahoma trucking company, where Mr. Coleman worked, to transport the drugs, then stored them in a Bronx house.

These changes are driven by a perceptible shift in the culture -- a gradual but welcome lightening of the solemn mood that used to cling to "fine dining" like an ermine cloak -- as well as by demographics and economic necessity.

He may be unrivaled as a show skater -- who else could bring solemn grace to the use of a Hula-Hoop?

One poster entitled "Love-quiz … For married folks only" shows a forlorn wife whose man is about to walk out of the door, and reads: "Why does she spend her evenings alone?" before finishing with the solemn advice to: "Always use Lysol".

BONUS. a (though a Roman Catholic bishop says it's not sanctioned by the church, and "any attempt to use the solemn Rite of Exorcism as entertainment exposes all participators to the danger of future hidden satanic attack").

Not even an Ofcom to announce solemn inquiries into MPs using random on-air words like "fuckwit".

In Memoriam is dedicated to the victims of September 11 and uses appropriately solemn choral music by the 16th-century composer Cristobal de Morales.

Obama, she writes, "lost his morality, his dignity and his mind, using the solemn occasion of Nelson Mandela's memorial service Tuesday to act like a hormone-ravaged frat boy on a road trip to a strip bar".

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.