Sentence examples for the first solemn from inspiring English sources

March 996 John XV (or XVI), (died March 996, Rome), pope from 985 to 996, who carried out the first solemn canonization in history by papal decree.

The first solemn action of his dictatorship was very fitly a religious one: an admonition to the people, that their late overthrow had not befallen them through want of courage in their soldiers, but through the neglect of divine ceremonies in the general.

As the Shaman, Steve Rooks was first solemn priest, then imperious leader, with hints of craftiness and savagery as the ritual progressed.

The choreography moved dancers -- at first solemn pioneers, then jiving partygoers and finally insistent civil rights protesters -- about the stage in large sweeping blocks, with darting solo and small-ensemble moments (Marceline Freeman, Rachael Ashley, Carol Lynn McCoy, Lisa M. Thomas and Seiji Gammage).

He also began his first solemn explorations of the self-portrait.

Liszt drew the piece's title from a line by French poet and statesman Alphonse de Lamartine: "What is life but a series of preludes to that unknown hymn whose first solemn note is intoned by death?" The philosophy inherent in those words led generations of critics to draw somewhat misguided parallels between the poem and particular melodies in Liszt's work.

We were all Kierkegaardian existentialists by the time we made it to the lower sixth, solemn, troubled and vain, and vying with one another to be the most authentically individual, true to nothing except ourselves.

The first lady delivers solemn, private hugs to wounded service members.

Ten minutes later, the first arrived: two solemn young men, one in stark black and another in electric blue.

A1 On the first of five solemn days leading to a funeral on Monday, church officials scheduled daily Masses and public viewings of the cardinal's body at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

On the first of five solemn days leading to a funeral on Monday, church officials scheduled daily masses and public viewings of the cardinal's body at the cathedral, an ailing Pope John Paul II named the Vatican Secretary of State to represent him at the funeral, and the long-awaited papal selection of a successor to Cardinal O'Connor was expected soon, stirring much speculation.