After the President spoke, he turned and solemnly high-fived each small hand.
But that is not how Lucas's solemnly high-flown script chooses to refer to them.
With bagpipes wailing, hundreds of mourners filed solemnly into a high school auditorium here on Sunday to honor Army Specialist Joseph Jeffries, 21, one of 18 Oregon soldiers killed over the last year in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Another girl disappears, and the crime, which has obvious similarities to the disappearances and the deaths of a decade earlier, sickens one of the police higher-ups, a solemnly imposing man, Maurice Jobson David Morrisseyy), who has been in on the fix all along.
But it should not claim the moral high ground and intone solemnly about peace.
When not wringing notes out of his guitar, Mr. Berman delivered his words solemnly, helpfully leavened by Ms. Wang, whose high harmonies, even when faintly whispered, added necessary texture.
But then she spots two high-school kids kissing solemnly on a blanket.
Gerhaher's encore restored high-mindedness with a solemnly exquisite Byron setting from Schumann's Myrten Op 25.
The close-set, odd-angled buildings of Paris are lovingly rendered, as are the gargoyles of Notre Dame, who solemnly observe a climactic sequence of high-altitude score settling.
I first heard of it in 1962, in the faculty room of a fancy California high school, where it was solemnly revered.
Dressed in what looks like their Sunday best, in dark suits and high-collar dresses, they stare solemnly into an unwelcoming world.
