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Solemn in sentence

263 examples of Solemn in a sentence

Be solemn.
You should get solemn now, because a world in which sentient beings don't suffer needlessly, in which there aren't things like childhood cancer or the Holocaust.
All too often, execution day was more like a carnival than a solemn ceremony.
Chaucer uses the quirks of the characters’ language – the ribald humor of the Cook, the solemn prose of the Parson, and the lofty notions of the Squire – to satirize their worldviews.
What it means, of course, is, be solemn.
Being solemn is easy.
Adults, on the whole, are solemn.
In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like Eisenhower.
Jogging, which is commonplace, and widely accepted as good for you, is solemn.
Washington, D.C. is solemn.
Going to educational conferences to tell you anything about the future is solemn.
Solemn design is often important and very effective design.
Solemn design is also socially correct, and is accepted by appropriate audiences.
Perfection happens during solemn play.
I'm hired to be solemn, but I find more and more that I'm solemn when I don't have to be.
And first I was praised for it, then criticized for it, but the fact of the matter was, I had become solemn.
I spent most of the '80s being quite solemn, turning out these sorts of designs that I was expected to do because that's who I was, and I was living in this cycle of going from serious to solemn to hackneyed to dead, and getting rediscovered all over again.
And that is a kiss of death for something serious because it makes it solemn.
The institutions are solemn, and so is the design.
And that began to make it solemn.
But it became the end of the seriousness of the play, and it started to, once again, become solemn.
I was actually in this solemn landscape of fulfilling an expectation for a show, which is not where I started with these things.
I couldn't resist, and I got a nasty email from some environmental group saying, "This is too serious and solemn to make fun of.
They ran the full gamut: a very solemn Greek Orthodox service, four Catholic requiem masses and a garden party where I made a toast while scattering my friend's ashes around her garden with a soup ladle.
As a documentary, this is laughable in a campy sort of way -- a schlocky collection of re-created Biblical tableaux mixed in with solemn interviews of so-called "experts."
Upon completing this infernal piece of trash, a friend and I swore a solemn vow never to again speak of how we had just trashed away the last 90 minutes of our lives.
While everyone else was solemn about the journey, the monkey seemed to be on some kind of drug binge where he kept shouting something that resembled the English word faster.
Then, roughly one hour into this solemn movie is The Feast.
The Feast is still solemn, but humorous.
Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman play Adele and Ann August, a single mother who's the working definition of the word "dreamer" and her solemn, pragmatic daughter.
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