Thompson talks solemnly, if rather vaguely, about "the violence of war that is still in the world".
This is good for some — like Jacksonville's Jack Del Rio, whose job was threatened before the Jaguars won their past two games — and bad for others like Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, who talked solemnly Sunday about finding the team's identity.
Ruskin's first impressions of Rose, as she visited him at his London home in Denmark Hill were suffused with pre-Raphaelite iconography - or, perhaps more darkly, echoes of Lewis Carroll's fantasies - as she "walked like a little white statue through the twilight woods, talking solemnly".
Once the piece is turned on, the creepy forms come shifting mechanically to life, waking from their slumber like clockwork disciples, chattering away inanely, praying, swearing, smoking, and talking solemnly about fast food orders while humans with real bird skulls for heads dot the table in various positions some sexual, others desperate, some involving red liquid.
At their next summit on January 30th, European Union leaders will solemnly talk of boosting output, tackling youth unemployment, supporting small firms and much else.
In "Green Lantern," directed by Martin Campbell, the Guardians, who use the ethical power of will to protect the universe from the destructive force of fear, direct the Lanterns, who wear green plastic suits and have purple faces with pointy ears, or heads like fish; they talk slowly and solemnly, like the hierophants of some forgotten Egyptian religion gathered in an underground crypt.
Groh began the week by solemnly talking about the fragility of a team's unity when it faces two crushing defeats, like the Jets have.
Having no idea what the publicist was talking about, our correspondent solemnly nodded his head.
