Victor Muss conducted with a solemnity that was amusing given the dancers' endearing giddiness.
It's often hilarious, and blessedly free of the self-important solemnity that is DeLillo's writerly Achilles' heel.
Even those who worshipped the Meister often found it necessary, as a way of retaining mental balance, to puncture the aura of solemnity that surrounded him.
Herr, 50, describes himself as a focused person, and he speaks with a solemnity that makes it easy for people to miss his dry humor.
Some people attribute it to the solemnity that hangs over the city, others to fear, still others to a newfound unity as Americans.
All of this is part of the choreographed solemnity that includes the prohibition of hats, cameras, talking, hands in pockets and lingering.
The movie "does try something a little bit new and perhaps, given the solemnity that has overtaken so much comic-book-based filmed entertainment, a little bit risky," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in May.
A cat-and-mouse thriller with delusions of grandeur, "The Statement" arrives wrapped in an intimidating mystique of high-minded solemnity that makes its vagueness and incoherence all the more disappointing when the pieces don't add up.
This cat-and-mouse thriller with delusions of grandeur arrives wrapped in an intimidating mystique of high-minded solemnity that makes its vagueness and incoherence all the more disappointing.
And this narrative is confirmed by the following solemnity, that was afterwards observed: An Athenian ship used to sail silently at first to the island, then, with noise and a great shout, one leapt out armed, and with a loud cry ran to the promontory Sciradium to meet those that approached upon the land.
Here and there you could hear the traces of the years in her singing — not every note is in tune, and some spread as they used not to — and always that high solemnity that has (sometimes absurdly) long characterized her art.
