Sentence examples for solemnity in from inspiring English sources

The presentation filters out intimations of hierarchy or solemnity in the objects.

What tends to be a little different is the solemnity in the High Church churches.

Upon leaving one customer said that he thought there was still too much solemnity in Carnegie.

The observance of it has waxed and waned in solemnity in the years since -- mostly waned.

To me, there was a solemnity in the iron-and-wood interior, the chill, the shadowed booths.

Lydia Martin stood out for her simplicity and sweet solemnity in a cast completed by Ms. Brenner's dancers and the guest artists Consuelo Gutierrez and Carlo Pellegrini.

Lavish government-supported Russian Orthodox solemnities in Moscow were countered with unofficial celebrations throughout Ukraine, including open observances by the proscribed Greek Catholics.

In later life he was said to possess an "undertaker look" of woebegone solemnity, and in a film made in Paris in the 1960s he was typecast as Death.

But elsewhere, the piece offers the solemnity promised in its title, conveyed in beautifully shaped solo writing and robust choral settings.

Three approaches prevail: there's sarcastic mockery, as in The Devil Wears Prada; there's campy revelling in its silliness, as in Fashion Babylon; and there's po-faced solemnity, as in pretty much any fashion designer's biography, which will almost invariably include a line such as, "His handling of the sleeve caused grown women to weep".

Thomson seems both to evoke and to debunk the solemnity promised in the title.