Sentence examples for solemn work from inspiring English sources

Certainly, the movie was much funnier and zingier than I would have suspected from Iñárittu's previously rather solemn work — and the screenplay was terrific.

"Mr. Scorsese is having fun with 'Cape Fear,' at heart a shaggy-dog story, but he brings to it the same manic intensity and innovative techniques evident in his more solemn work," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times.

"Mr. Scorsese is having fun with 'Cape Fear,' at heart a shaggy-dog story, but he brings to it the same manic intensity and innovative techniques evident in his more solemn work," Vincent Canby wrote in The Times.

For the most part, though, "Pas de Deux" is a solemn work, and, despite the profusion of music in the piece, Hoghe is comfortable with a silent stage, and with stillness.

I wondered, for someone whose subjects have included such potentially mirthless material as the dead of the Somme and Stalker, the most solemn work of the solemn Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, what role humour performed for him?

It's a solemn work perhaps, but forceful rather than hectoring, and is performed with an involving commitment and moral conviction by Gainsbourg (who won the best actress award at Cannes) and Dafoe.

The main show begins in the 15th century, and a lot changes between the mostly solemn, sober works in the opening gallery and the vivid, effervescent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist canvases in the final one.

People frequently confuse serious with solemn – working together with energetic members of your community can be serious fun.

Performed by two excellent bands, this disc of mostly recent brass music takes its title from Robin Holloway's War Memorials, Op 50 – substantial, solemn works commemorating the first world war from the soldiers' point of view.

By contrast, the film is wry about the solemn male work of poetry.

A 75-minute piece written from 1819 to 1823, it overlapped Beethoven's composition of the Ninth Symphony and can be taken as a more austere and, as its title suggests, solemn companion work.