Within moments, the soldiers' mood infected most everyone, and a kind of edgy solemnity settled over the lawn.
Part of that stranger-than-strange tone has to do with the acting style, which inhabits some odd no-creature's-land between drab soap solemnity and the over-the-top histrionics of Hammer horror.
Some people attribute it to the solemnity that hangs over the city, others to fear, still others to a newfound unity as Americans.
But Walsh sends up the story's tendency to over-solemnity.
(A dall is a horned sheep native to the Yukon, in case you were wondering. ) What kept the song from tilting over was the solemnity of the performance: this was a ballad about mortality, and everyone onstage seemed to mean it, whatever it meant.
It was inevitable that skepticism would arise over whether solemnity had long masked venality in the church, just as it was inevitable that around Notre Dame, a new breed of Catholics and non-Catholics alike would raise questions about such matters as the suicide and alleged assault of Lizzy Seeberg, the St . Marys student — especially when Notre Dame's administudentn sespeciallyto.
Mr. Flynn, like Mr. Colombo, is uncomfortable with the dilution of the solemnity of the Mass over the past 30 years or so, and feels that it has been overshadowed by debates on church positions like abortion and contraception, which he does not believe are open for discussion.
Here he tried to convey the solemnity of this minister, seething inside over his wife's betrayal.
First, it gives a solemnity to the sticky business of handing over the moolah.
And as dozens of world leaders converge on Moscow to commemorate the victory over fascism in World War II, the scandal over the deaths here threatens the solemnity of the ceremonies to be held on Tuesday.
