Sentence examples for to solemn from inspiring English sources

They swerve from antic to solemn, from invention to confessional.

But it is also, when it comes to solemn screen violence, to add meaning to its inclusion.

"A Burial at Ornans" (1849-50) convenes a provincial society to solemn and mordantly ironic effect, on an epic scale.

The centennial has also energized existing museums and become a cause for elaborate weekend events, from extravagant galas to solemn memorials.

Tel Aviv — the hip kid brother to solemn, momentous Jerusalem — now has a boutique hotel that aims to celebrate the city's gallery scene.

"The film ricochets in a breakneck delirium from ham-fisted comedy to solemn revenge drama to antic martial-arts thriller," Andy Webster wrote in The Times in March.

It was Grace who, as she received faculty prizes, as she spoke to solemn-faced people at conferences about the Ijaw and Ibibio and Igbo and Efik peoples of Southern Nigeria, as she wrote common-sense reports for international organizations, for which she nevertheless received generous pay, would imagine her grandmother looking on with great amusement.

If he refers to his solemn right to spy on antiwar activists as the "Terrorist Surveillance Program," drink three times.

He veers from monosyllabic to chatty, from solemn to dryly amused at the world's foibles.

Perhaps liberals are less inclined to be waggish about their politics — or more inclined to be solemn about their pets.

The committee is wrong to call for the UK to break its solemn promise to the world's poor".