Sentence examples for there were solemn from inspiring English sources
There were solemn moments.
There were solemn experiments with red poster paint, peacock-feather collages and roomfuls of crucified poultry.
There were solemn promises that motion pictures would henceforth be a "kinder, gentler" form of entertainment.
There were solemn greatcoats evocative of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, a clotheshorse renowned for the fanatically sharp cut of his uniforms.
There were solemn faces, players thinking about the many films they saw that week of their opponents, hoping that they and their team mates would not suffer injury at this game.
There are solemn, soulful portraits of Ms. Smith; Mapplethorpe's lover Sam Wagstaff, whom he met in 1972; and friends like the painter Helen Marden.
"What does not change is that there are solemn, important occasions in life," said Judith Martin, who writes about etiquette under the name Miss Manners, "and they require real, live people.
There is solemn discussion among the Choo staff about celebrity neuroses that a shoe company has to consider: "Some hate their ankles and some won't show their toes – they're literally just like normal people".
There are solemn, scowling meetings between stone-faced intelligence suits (Edward Norton, Stacy Keach, Scott Glenn), there are mysterious nosebleed incidents in Karachi and Seoul, there's lots of opaque talk: people babble about Treadstone, Larx and Emerald Lake and say such things as "State two plus 30 to splash" and more technical stuff besides.
