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Meaning solemn meaning
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Simple sentences
The priest pretends to be solemn in public.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday morning, despite the cold and the rain, to take part in Solemn Mass with Pope Francis in celebration of Easter.
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The most solemn day in the life of Akakiy Akakievich.
I can't make it solemn enough for you.
And you're very solemn.
Don't stand there staring at me all solemn and owl-eyed.
A trial for murder is the most solemn occasion upon which men can be called to perform a public duty.
I've given a solemn promise never to return to you.
At this solemn moment, in the presence of this tribunal which is the representative of human justice before you gentlemen of the jury before France, before the whole world I swear that Dreyfus is innocent.
Miss Kathy, a penny for those solemn thoughts.
Oh, my, they look solemn.
Let us take the solemn vow.
The launching of a ship in a time of war is always a solemn occasion.
It is indeed a solemn occasion.
Sister Anne-Marie, can you take your solemn vows?
Please kiss this Bible as a solemn oath that you've told the truth.
Solemn and beautiful.
If any member is doubtful of his strength to keep this solemn pledge, he will please be seated.
But when the ruthless ambition of a man threatens to engulf the world. it becomes the solemn obligation of all free men. to affirm that the earth belongs not to any one man. but to all men.
The launching of a ship in time of war. is always a solemn occasion.
The crowd is tense. It is indeed a solemn occasion.
Ah, just as I thought, you've been reading about those filthy pajama murders again, and you gave me your solemn word of honor.
Representatives of the United States here and of the Cheyenne Nation sign below as a solemn pledge of faith and agreement.
Dear friends, We are gathered here to pay solemn and loving tribute To the memory of 3 fine and beautiful young boys cut off in the fullness of life's morn'.
Uh, by virtue of the power invested in me. and by virtue of the solemn promises you have made. I hereby pronounce you to be man and wife.
It's a solemn thought, isn't it?
Yes, sir. Please kiss this Bible as a solemn oath that you've told the truth.
We were carried away by our emotion. We've been guilty of an unpardonable betrayal. But we made a solemn agreement to atone for it by burying our feelings in our heart.
I give you my solemn word nothing irregular will occur.
But a part of her dies, and it makes her touched and solemn.
To-night we hold a solemn supper sir, and I'll request your presence.
It's the best I can do, that's my solemn oath.
You've been so anxious and solemn all evening. We've both been anxious and solemn.
I don't know what's the matter, we're all so solemn. Is it because I've been stood up by my beau?
It is the solemn judgment of this court that Rebecca of York be pronounced a witch infected with satanic powers and guilty of demoniacal arts.
News and current affairs
Solemn promises made over the years would have to be broken (people would not get the social services that they paid for with a lifetime of high taxes), lives would be shortened (less money for hospitals and nursing homes), and overall hardship increased.
Countries tempted to undermine these principles by failing to fulfill their solemn commitments only demonstrate their own lack of solidarity.
The solemn Communist Manifesto announced the specter of the Great Utopia haunting Europe, but failed to warn us of the bloody tyranny.
Today, Greece's European creditors seem ready to abandon their solemn pledges on the irrevocability of the euro in order to insist on collecting some crumbs from the country's pensioners.
This is a year of both widespread hunger and solemn promises by the rich countries.
My partner was a book of Romanian fairy tales with a hard green cover, which I had been given a few days before when I turned the solemn age of 9.
At the UN's Millennium Summit in September 2000, the world's leaders made solemn pledges to tackle global poverty.
The occasion was solemn and charged with symbolism.
Governments may sign treaties and make solemn commitments to subordinate their fiscal policy to EU rules (or to be more precise, to the wishes of Germany and the European Central Bank).
It is an onerous and solemn undertaking, uplifting one day and extremely frustrating the next.
As voters in these countries are inundated with good intentions, ringing assurances, and solemn commitments, they will expect parties and candidates to follow through if they are elected.
By making a solemn resolution and telling our family and close friends about it, we tilt the scales against succumbing to temptation.
The solemn face that Alberto Korda caught in his photographs became tough and unsympathetic.
Central banks could adjust them or abandon them at any time, violating their solemn promises.
But the trauma of a discrete regime change, a default of solemn official commitments, and the bandwagon momentum these events generate are avoided by the use of floating rates.
At the polls, my countrymen conferred a solemn mandate on me to make democracy the means for eliminating corruption and alleviating poverty.