That same day, I told her she was beautiful: "Vous êtes belle" — the formal vous, in contrast with the tu we normally used with each other, underlining the solemnity of the occasion.
I'd been promoted, and Dario handed me both his knife and, in recognition of the solemnity of the occasion, a steel glove to protect me from injury, the very thing he had used when he'd started out.
All around us, scented arms, flung into the faces of others, were sniffed with the solemnity of a sommelier.
The memorial possesses all the solemnity of a tourist trap.
But the solemnity of the day was marked nonetheless.
He finds the "solemnity of the David Foster Wallace myth … borderline sickening".
Bergman himself is not above laughing at the solemnity of his cinematic idiom.
"The proceeding had all the solemnity of a driver's license renewal and took a small fraction of the time".
Because of the Solemnity of the Ascension, alternate-side street-cleaning regulations will be suspended in New York City on Thursday.
In Norway, romjul is a week of halfcelebrations — not quite the solemnity of Christmas nor the glee of New Year.
