At the LaPaz, at 285 East 149th Street, mourners walked past the open coffins of nine victims while solemn music played in the street over loudspeakers.
A long video clip from the semiofficial news channel Al Ikhbariya showed what appeared to be 10 burned corpses near a row of gas containers while solemn, patriotic music played in the background.
Dressed in short shorts and tight black polo-shirts, the strapping young members of the Moscow Ping Pong Club swipe balls furiously to and fro, while solemn babushkas push trolleys of steaming pelmeni dumplings between them, their wheels occasionally getting snagged in the plush purple carpet.
Cute, blowsy Alice urinates on a toilet while her solemn boyfriend John Rothschild does the same in a sink.
A paranoid drug trader balefully plays homophobic Eminem-style records, while his solemn gay neighbor loses his laid-back lover.
Voices, sound effects and emotions are time and again set on high, and their rhythms are rarely varied; speeches are sure to be loud and solemn, while unhappy laughs will usually morph into mad cackles.
He is one of those people who is either very on, bright and shiny, funny and engaged, or very off, solemn, while working — or at least when he talks about working.
And a United States divided regarding Israel might forgo intervention on its behalf in a crisis, in a way that could create doubts about American reliability while forsaking a solemn commitment to a people that had passed through the gas chambers and crematoria.
When George Washington took the oath of office as the country's first president in 1789, he placed his hand upon the Bible while speaking those solemn 35 words required by the Constitution, beginning a tradition that has come to define the pomp and circumstance of Inauguration Day.
In the largely wordless "Pageant," which runs through this weekend, these women (played by Stacy Dawson, Jesse Hawley and Beth Kurkjian) take turns assuming poses that embody phases of the Virgin's life, from the Annunciation to the Assumption, while a slyly solemn Archangel Gabriel Darren Andersonn) acts as M.C.
Nick Zinner's guitar-playing remains nervy and hostile, laden with as many effects as exist in the guitar shop, while Brian Chase, looking solemn and professorial, but drumming like a fiend, supplies the kind of versatile beats that span art-punk and synth-pop (he does jazz in his spare time).
