Fighting to perpetuate an imperial regime, the memory of which Britons are increasingly unlikely to celebrate, those who fought and fell in Britain's colonial wars have never been solemnly remembered, unlike those who died in the two world wars.
True, the dead women are, at one point, solemnly remembered at the National: a pause for protracted, reproachful silence from a trio of stage prostitutes makes the point about who is not there, putting up hanging baskets.
Ever since independence in 1964, the 33 have been solemnly remembered as martyrs on 3 March with a low-key ceremony in which wreaths are laid at a cenotaph at the site.
Indeed, we can honor them not only by solemnly remembering their lives and sacrifice, but by acting to make changes that will go a long way towards preventing such tragic events as those occurring on July 24 , 1998from happening again.
And I remember I saw John shaking his head solemnly behind him".
With its multinational cast solemnly intoning things like "When you see the baron, remember the tooth, the tooth, the tooth," "Dune" has its stilted Saturday matinee side.
I can't remember another film since "Splendor in the Grass" (1961) so solemnly fixated on the obsessional, morbid aspects of youthful passion.
As we solemnly observe the 1,000th American military death in Iraq, let us also remember that on one day alone -- 9/11 -- more than 3,000 deaths occurred here on our own soil.
Anyway, what I remember most is my elementary-school teacher's expression as I explained, very solemnly, why I had missed the first day of school.
We remember proudly today the service of our veterans, but we must also reflect solemnly on why Veterans' Day was established at all.
