How To Use Solemnity In A Sentence
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As far as possible, the essential meaning or substance of each oath, and the formality and solemnity of the oaths, are retained.
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This fifteen metre, golden statue has sat here for 30 years and while its bulk is impressive, don't expect meditative solemnity; the forecourt is noisy with music, stalls and snack bars.
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The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
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a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness
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The other approach is to bless a lowly subject, such as the life and times of a clockmaker, with the grandeur and solemnity of an epic.
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In the first nocturn, the Church sings lessons from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, with a special melody famous for its solemnity and beauty, and entirely appropriate to the text.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 5 - Tenebrae and the Divine Office of the Triduum
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The Englishman was struck with the solemnity of the obtestation, and answered with more cordiality than he had yet exhibited,
The Talisman
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An air of gravity and solemnity pervaded the president's remarks as a stunned nation listened by radio.
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When I was there the fiddler was a septuagenarian named John MacDougal, who sat straight up in a plain chair and rasped out jigs, reels, strathspeys and airs with solemnity worthy of a judge.
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His wit was loved especially because of the great solemnity with which it was delivered.
Times, Sunday Times
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In truth, the music didn't really take off - the church was stifling, people were shuffling on their feet and the music ebbed and flowed, promising climaxes that it didn't deliver, and tip-toeing around solemnity.
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He had made up his mind to see her advance with a measured step and a demure solemnity of countenance; he had felt sure that her face would be mantled with the smile of conscious saintship, or else charged with denunciatory bitterness.
Adam Bede
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Lou gently lay Bev's hand back on the mattress and bowed his head with a solemnity that Nora thought both tender and portentous.
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The servants, powdered and in short breeches as usual, served us in their customary solemnity; but they must have wondered why we preferred to sit on the gravel, with a draught of cold air on our backs, when we might have been comfortably seated in a big and airy room with a carpet under our feet.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
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Dr. Beattie wrote on July 31, 1784: -- 'Johnson told me with great solemnity that Miss More was "the most powerful versificatrix" in the English language.'
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780
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Thus without pomp or solemnity is the body of Jesus laid in the cold and silent grave.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Nothing, in fact, disturbs the grandeur and solemnity of the Mosaical cosmogony, except (as usual) the ruggedness of the bibliolater.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
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The blessing of the Parish Centre providentially falls on the 12th of December, the day when in Mexico and in the Americas celebrate the Solemnity of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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He added an affirmatory nod, and continued to gaze upon me with a kind of irate solemnity, holding his substantial stick between his knees, with his hands clasped upon its head.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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At the same time, the slow and sonorous solemnity with which, while he bent himself down, he addressed a little thick short-legged boy, contrasted with the boy's aukwardness and awe, could not but excite some ludicrous emotions [948].
Life Of Johnson
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The negroes were busy poisoning arrows with the juice of the euphorbium — a piece of work deemed a great affair among these savage tribes, and carried on with a sort of ceremonial solemnity.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
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It takes on an ambience of solemnity, filled with memory, contemplation, and meditation.
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Solemnity and lightheartedness, an important dimension of Chinese literature, has been subjected to an undeserved negligence.
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Chaucer lived he must have heard this very language, matter of fact, unmetaphorical, far better fitted for narrative than for analysis, capable of religious solemnity or of broad humour, but very stiff material to put on the lips of men and women accosting each other face to face.
The Common Reader
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This was not a day of joy and laughter, but one of sermons and solemnity.
Times, Sunday Times
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August 15 marks the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady into heaven, a holyday of obligation.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Solemnity can be achieved is many ways; to argue that religious references are required for such things shows a profound lack of imagination, to put it kindly.
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My eyes must have been a little crazy with solemnity.
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What dares the slave come hither, cover'd with an antic face, to fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
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As an unabashed keeper of the Feast of Christmas, I choose to rub shoulders with the forces of jollification, merriment, and solemnity.
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The rich, painterly textures and sober use of color in his "matter paintings" lent a moving solemnity - the critic John Russell referred to their "seignorial dignity" - to works that "seemed to have been not so much painted as excavated from an idiosyncratic compound of mud, sand, earth, dried blood and powdered minerals.
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It will be noticed, that the retainers guarding the exterior and entrance are barefooted, which is a mark of respect in honour of the rank of the culprit, and of the solemnity of the occasion.
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs
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In a field rooted in moral concern, there is a long tradition of solemnity and sternness.
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Other fragrant messengers followed in their season, but, if ever I "win hame to mine ain countrie," I make mine avow to enshrine that first rosebud in my _reliquaire_, with all honor and solemnity, there to abide till one of us shall be dust.
Border and Bastille
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In the dictionary its meaning is given as lofty, elevated by joy, exalted in character; awakening or expressing an uplifting emotion, producing a sense of elevated beauty, nobility, grandeur, solemnity or awe.
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Others hail them with great solemnity as demolition jobs on false ways of seeing and feeling.
Times, Sunday Times
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That means there is an imposing solemnity to everything that happens and a lush sweep of orchestral music to accompany every moment.
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Koch sought to reinvent American poetry by letting in ‘fresh air’, eliminating mythic solemnity and styling a conversational vernacular ablaze with wit and linguistic surprise.
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Most couples realise that exchanging their vows is a key moment in life that calls for great seriousness and solemnity.
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Suddenly the solemnity of the occasion and the majesty of its setting overcame everyone and reverential silence descended.
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Shapiro's seriousness is not solemnity - the poems in this book do not allow for high-mindedness or convenient emotion - and his grief is not melodrama.
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The solemnity of the language of the resolution and the fact that it was initialled on each page and signed at the end was calculated to impress on the reader the intended finality of the document.
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Since our conference had begun, the dusk of twilight had melted away; and the moon had called into lustre -- living, indeed, but unlike the common and unhallowing life of day -- the wood and herbage, and silent variations of hill and valley, which slept around us; and, as the still and shadowy light fell over the upward face of my brother, it gave to his features an additional, and not wholly earth-born, solemnity of expression.
Devereux — Volume 01
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The solemnity and dignity of the occasion were marred by this imperial affront to the former colonies.
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He crossed the magnificent inner peristylium, the tall, uncut pillars of which, sharply defined against the sky, enhanced its majestic grandeur and its air of mysterious solemnity.
"Unto Caesar"
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The word solemnity is here used to denote the amount of intrinsic or extrinsic pomp with which a feast is celebrated.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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There's a melancholy tone to the proceedings, a funeral solemnity, in what is supposed to be a summer sci-fi action blockbuster.
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A lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness.
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We are informed, too, that in England, on the occasion of the coronation of King Edward IV, that solemnity, which had been originally intended to take place on a Sunday, was postponed till the Monday, owing to the former day being in that year the festival of Childermas.
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There is in Machado's prose a playfulness that teases the reader, humor that mocks solemnity and seriousness.
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But oh with what beard-stroking solemnity we shall avoid saying this.
Times, Sunday Times
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With that he took a deep draught of wine, and shook his head with much solemnity, when his kinsman replied that his family had been destroyed upon the festival of Saint Jude [October 28] last bypast.
Quentin Durward
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Congress in terms proportioned in their explicitness and solemnity to the conviction he entertains of the importance and inviolability of the principle involved.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term)
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He adds, therefore, p. 276, “To say that God putteth a case in such solemnity and emphaticalness of words and phrase as are remarkable all along in the carriage of the place in hand, of which there is no possibility that it should ever happen or be exemplified in reality of event, and this in vindication of himself and the equity of his dealings and proceedings with men, is to bring a scandal and reproach of weakness upon that infinite wisdom of his which magnifies itself in all his works; which also is so much the more unworthy and unpardonable when there is a sense commodious, every way worthy as well the infinite wisdom as the goodness of God, pertinent and proper to the occasion he hath in hand, which offers itself plainly and clearly.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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All of this solemnity had the effect of devitalizing Potter's work, prematurely shrouding it with all the cobwebs of respectability and reverence.
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There are other examples of naming deals gaining solemnity and acceptance over time.
Times, Sunday Times
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People spoke, when they spoke at all, in whispers, and John was so infected by the air of solemnity that when a small boy in the gallery began to call out "Acid drops or cigarettes!" he felt that a sidesman must appear from a pew and take the lad to the police-station for brawling in a sacred edifice.
The Foolish Lovers
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The thurifer helps to engage all of our senses in prayer, heightening the solemnity of the liturgy.
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She handed him the envelope with mock solemnity.
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It was a cheery, chatty atmosphere tempered with solemnity at each and every shrine where offerings were made.
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Great Regulars: The poem's argument was as hard to remember as its language; it dissolved at once into the circumambient solemnity.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Some old-timers, like this reviewer, muttered that it might be time to return a little closer to the balance of solemnity that formerly marked such occasions.
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But now it is gone and we should lament its passing with all the solemnity and dignity such an occasion deserves.
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When they had gone from house to house and collected all the money they could, they laid the wren on a bier and carried it in procession to the parish churchyard, where they made a grave and buried it “with the utmost solemnity, singing dirges over her in the Manks language, which they call her knell; after which
The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion
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The sense is that the modern - language, music, presentation - is too thin, we're told, to carry the transcendent and we have to go back to the old to recapture the splendour, solemnity and dignity of the Mass.
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He had no taste for more cheerful images, and there are neither rural objects nor villagery in the scenes he describes, but only loneness and the solemnity of mountains.
The Life of Lord Byron
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29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The film wears all its anachronisms on its sleeve and evades any of the empty solemnity that is often associated with tales of love and sword fights.
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It was a constant practice with them, in their midnight consistories, to swallow such plentiful draughts of inspiration, that their mysteries commonly ended like those of the Bacchanalian orgia; and they were seldom capable of maintaining that solemnity of decorum which, by the nature of their functions, most of them were obliged to profess.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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The Queen was crowned with all solemnity / with all the proper solemnities.
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With great solemnity, they prepared the sleeping body of Miri with magic charms and incantations, and called upon the ancestors and the gods to call away Karkameni.
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The music he composed for her funeral is of a truly majestic solemnity and profundity.
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On the other hand, too much solemnity and dutifulness creates a lifeless and narrow outlook and a stale psychological environment.
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A slight smile interrupted the seriousness of his face, or perhaps, accentuated its solemnity.
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The film's solemnity is appropriate for its subject matter, and it reflects the artist's sincerity.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.
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And while Old Hurricane stared his eyes half out, the parties most interested opened the papers, which they found to be rather pressing invitations to be present at a certain solemnity at Staunton.
The Hidden Hand
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Reduced by an apparently at-sea Cuba Gooding Jr. to a mix of goofy aw-shucks smiles and dead-eyed solemnity, Carson comes across as the least intriguing person in his own story.
TNT's 'Gifted Hands' wasn't made by gifted hands
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This casting decision does add an element of social education to the show, though its complexity and solemnity suggests it will find its most appropriate audience among older children and young teenagers.
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In this, his fifth collection, Dean Young writes comic poems that eschew solemnity but are in fact terribly serious.
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The third cause is for the augmentation of our surety, that is to say for the glory that is purposed in us; in their solemnity our hope and surety be augmented and increased.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6
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– And indeed it was on these occasions that Mrs Rayland seemed to take peculiar pleasure in mortifying Mrs Somerive and her daughters; who dreaded these dinner days as those of the greatest penance; and who at Christmas, one of the periods of these formal dinners, have blest more than once the propitious snow; through which that important and magisterial personage, the body coachman of Mrs Rayland, did not choose to venture himself, or the six sleek animals of which he was sole governor; for on these occasions it was the established rule to send for the family, with the same solemnity and the same parade that had been used ever since the first sullen and reluctant reconciliation between Sir Hildebrand and his sister; when she dared to deviate from the fastidious arrogance of her family, and to marry a man who farmed his own estate – and who, though long settled as a very respectable land-owner, had not yet written Armiger after his name.
The Old Manor House
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Justice, discrowned by the hand of violence, exclaims in tones of deep solemnity, HIS WILL BE DONE!
Garrison against the Tyrants
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Could someone please spread the word to the awards-seeking moviemakers of the world that unrelieved solemnity is not truer to life, not even in our worst moments.
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It was certainly only an American who could have the tension of Mr. Wendover; his solemnity almost made her laugh, just as her eyes grew dull when people 'slanged' each other hilariously in her sister's house; but at the same time he gave her a feeling of high respectability.
A London Life and Other Tales
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He handed her into it with all the solemnity of a priest offering the communion cup.
FAIRYLAND
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It was very ludicrous to see our late servant giving up his charge to our present one -- the solemnity with which the iron tureen, and the one knife, and the three forks, that were not furcated, seeing that they had but one prong each, were surrendered: Joshua's contempt at the sordid poverty of the republic to which he was to administer, was quite as undisguised as his surprise.
Rattlin the Reefer
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He preserved his mask of solemnity even with acquaintances.
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In a field rooted in moral concern, there is a long tradition of solemnity and sternness.
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Dr. Beattie wrote on July 31, 1784: ” 'Johnson told me with great solemnity that Miss More was “the most powerful versificatrix” in the English language.'
Life of Johnson
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Television has contributed to the steady decline of solemnity in the courtroom.
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Others hail them with great solemnity as demolition jobs on false ways of seeing and feeling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film does not hold water when it comes to being logical or plausible, but this a minor grievance when one accepts that the flights of fancy harden the aura of solemnity that the film strives for.
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The setting for this morning's signing ceremony matched the solemnity of the occasion.
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Thus we have seen this sealed book passing with great solemnity from the hand of the Creator into the hand of the Redeemer.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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The term solemnity is also used in contracts, especially matrimony, in votive Masses, in vows, and in ecclesiastical trials.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Looking back at those days when his father was still alive, the pipe definitely accorded him a necessary air of solemnity that gave his tragic observations the quality of wisdom.
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The monument was unveiled with great solemnity.
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I don't call intoning proper solemnity," said Miss Leonora.
The Perpetual Curate
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The doxology, which, according to a common tradition was added to the Office by Pope Saint Damasus I, (366 – 384), is everywhere omitted, as are the Invitatory, Hymns, Little Chapters, and indeed, all the elements which have been added to the Office over the course of the centuries to increase its beauty and solemnity.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 5 - Tenebrae and the Divine Office of the Triduum
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And, with ceremonial solemnity, he showed me how to relight the pilot on the furnace.
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St. John of the Cross 'solemnity is celebrated today by the Discalced Carmelites.
12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004
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He could enter into the solemnity of speculation with Wordsworth while floating at sunset on the lake; and not the less gamesomely could he collect a set of good fellows under the lamp at his supper-table, and take off Wordsworth's or
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
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Instead of an air of holiness or solemnity, he shows us kids chafing under restrictions just as they would in a boarding school or a summer camp.
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The American nodded with a kind of owlish solemnity.
Partners In Crime
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His testamentary executors [executrices] organised this solemnity magnificently.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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The setting for this morning's signing ceremony matched the solemnity of the occasion.
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Use effects this; because love and wisdom are delighted with each other, and as it were sport together like little children; and as they grow up, they enter into genial conjunction, which is effected by a kind of betrothing, nuptial solemnity, marriage, and propagation, and this with continual variety to eternity.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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A chorus of hoots greeted his attempt at solemnity.
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“A fine saft morning for the crap, sir,” answered Mrs. Dods, with equal solemnity.
Saint Ronan's Well
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In a magnificent temple raised on the Palatine Mount, the sacrifices of the god of Elagabalus were celebrated with every circumstance of cost and solemnity.
Gibbon VI
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Nevertheless, You've Got a Friend (against Noble's soft, gospelly chording) has a confiding solemnity, there's an exposed and soulful fragility to Home Again, Way Over Yonder and the title track and, after Noble's gliding Brad Mehldau-like intro, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow has a sombre reflectiveness.
Christine Tobin/Liam Noble: Tapestry Unravelled
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An air of gravity and solemnity pervaded the president's remarks as a stunned nation listened by radio.
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A spokesman said he is displaying something not usually associated with the dignity and solemnity of his office - a sense of humour.
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His wit was loved especially because of the great solemnity with which it was delivered.
Times, Sunday Times
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They watched, for once, with due solemnity as she picked up her phone, rang Greg's office, and found he wasn't in.
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Television has contributed to the steady decline of solemnity in the courtroom.
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All of this points to a new interest in solemnity, decorum, and beauty in Catholic liturgy.
Lauda Sion: Catholic Liturgy in a Time of Reform
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And when her imagination became occasionally darkened by that gloom which she termed her malady, nothing could be more impressive than the tone of deep and touching piety which mingled with and elevated her melancholy into a cheerful solemnity of spirit, that swayed by its pensive dignity the habits and affections of her whole family.
Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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When they had gone from house to house and collected all the money they could, they laid the wren on a bier and carried it in procession to the parish churchyard, where they made a grave and buried it with the utmost solemnity, singing dirges over her in the Manks language, which they call her knell; after which Christmas begins.
Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament. § 2. Processions with Sacred Animals
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Your dress is black, and during the time of waiting you compose your visage into a "tristful 'haviour," and lean in silent solemnity upon the top of your cane, thinking about -- last night's party.
The Laws of Etiquette
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All of this solemnity had the effect of devitalizing Potter's work, prematurely shrouding it with all the cobwebs of respectability and reverence.
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Dect philips phone unentitled twofold bibliotics unresisting to otterhound solemnity, i scaphoid to balfour how to nyctalopia the fearsome error that were one of the pampas executability of his compare.
Rational Review
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Dect philips phone unentitled twofold bibliotics unresisting to otterhound solemnity, i scaphoid to balfour how to nyctalopia the fearsome error that were one of the pampas executability of his compare.
Rational Review
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He added an affirmatory nod, and continued to gaze upon me with a kind of irate solemnity, holding his substantial stick between his knees, with his hands clasped upon its head.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Isaiah 30: 29 "Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord.
Festivals around the world
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The solemnity of this scene could not but be rendered more impressive by the recollection of the investiture of Sir James with the Order of the Bath, in which the venerable and gallant general had performed so distinguished a part only a short time before.
Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II
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Farnham," he said, with profound solemnity, "if you don't call that the" -- (I decline to follow him in the pyrotechnical combination of oaths with which he introduced the next words) -- "best sherry you ever saw, then I'm a converted pacer with the ringbone.
The Bread-winners A Social Study
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One of the things that many business book authors fail to take into account is the fact that seriousness of message doesn't necessarily require solemnity of presentation.
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The collection of a regalia for coronation purposes added to the solemnity and antiquity of the occasion and seems to have been begun by the monks of Westminster abbey.
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The memorial itself provides the truest dignity, solemnity and recognition justly deserved by those commemorated and respected.
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The set design ranges from colorful flamboyance to austere solemnity.
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ROME: Mary MacKillop's canonisation, which is regarded as a sure thing after Pope Benedict XVI's confirmation of the proofs regarding her second miracle, will take place under his policy of restoring solemnity to canonisations.
The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
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The Queen was crowned with all solemnity / with all the proper solemnities.
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Nor did she farther press him on the subject; for, having concluded her prayer or obtestation, by clasping her hands together with solemnity, and then signing herself with the cross, she again addressed her grandson, in a tone more adapted to the ordinary business of life.
The Abbot
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When they had gone from house to house and collected all the money they could, they laid the wren on a bier and carried it in procession to the parish churchyard, where they made a grave and buried it "with the utmost solemnity, singing dirges over her in the Manks language, which they call her knell; after which Christmas begins.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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My slight personal acquaintance with the subject of all this discouraging impersonal solemnity seemed slightly ridiculous.
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Black, rugged mountains towered majestically at the horizon, adding savage grandeur to the solemnity of the landscape.
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These images reveal, without authorial commentary, the mixture of earnestness and fecklessness, solemnity and comedy that marks the typical contemporary parade.
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[Gertrude of Colmar, the chantress at Unterlinden] made sure that she was the first to come into the choir, and devoted a great deal of care to ensuring that all the sisters sang their psalms to God harmoniously, loudly and solemnly, in whatever way was fitting to each solemnity and season.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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Not a man to be rushed into doing anything, my beloved walked the length and breadth of the property, up and down, roundabout, around the grounds, in the vegetable garden, face set with solemnity at the decision we were about to make.
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As longtime observers of Bill O'Reilly, we choose to regard the man with the unjaundiced eye, impassive reason, and evenhanded solemnity of an ancient Athenian stoic.
Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer: Media Drunk Tank
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But the octennial solemnity in honor of the god included at first no other competition except that of bards, who sang each a pæan with the harp.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
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That this was the council which Herod now convened is most probable, from the solemnity of the occasion; for though the elders are not mentioned, we find a similar omission where all three were certainly meant (compare Mt 26: 59; 27: 1).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Tilson for is his ability to blend solemnity and humour.
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He is a pleasantly scheming crook, with motley clothes and inimitable hairstyle; his definite traits are his love of rum, his philosophical resolve on revenge and his readiness to mock any expression of solemnity.
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He scarce ever made his first Entrance in a Play but he was received with an involuntary Applause, not of Hands only, for those may be, and have often been partially prostituted and bespoken, but by a General Laughter which the very Sight of him provoked and Nature cou'd not resist; yet the louder the Laugh the graver was his Look upon it; and sure, the ridiculous Solemnity of his Features were enough to have set a whole Bench of Bishops into a Titter, cou'd he have been honour'd (may it be no Offence to suppose it) with such grave and right reverend Auditors.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I
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Vin Diesel is the leathered, tattooed roughneck superspy, and the spot sends up Bond tropes like his relationship with Q and his penchant for cool cars and hair's-breadth escapes, but it does it with mock solemnity.
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Tall, lean, with strong, bold features, a keen, scholarly, accipitrine nose, thin, expressive lips, great solemnity and impressiveness of voice and manner, he was my early model of a classic orator.
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May 31, 2009: rose petals rain through the open oculus of Rome's Pantheon (the Basilica of Sancta Maria ad Martyres) during their annual celebration on the Solemnity of Pentecost while the Veni Sancte Spiritus is chanted.
Pentecost Sunday at the Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres (the Pantheon)
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If he was wanting in the dignity, the measured solemnity, which was fitting to such an exposition of the feelings of the House and of the nation, he was abundantly earnest, emotional, and almost impassioned; so that though his speech was here and there faulty, and as a whole not particularly well constructed or conceived, he was manifestly real, and what he said came direct from his feeling; and even in such an assembly as the House of Commons genuineness is not always unacceptable.
Sketches in Parliament
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Both treat this narrative with formality and solemnity.
Trauma and Recovery
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My slight personal acquaintance with the subject of all this discouraging impersonal solemnity seemed slightly ridiculous.
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They organised elaborate hoaxes like the bestowing of imaginary honours, which he appears to have accepted with due solemnity.
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His dress and manner were out of keeping with the solemnity of the occasion.
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Baudelaire, in his essay on laughter, refers to the humorless as “spiteful pundits of solemnity” and “charlatans of gravity.”
The Best American Poetry 2010
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a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity
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The setting for this morning's signing ceremony matched the solemnity of the occasion.
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In actuality, she was staring more at the stars than the horizon, and the expression of brooding solemnity had once again taken over her features.
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“The Divine institution of a sabbatical, or seventh year’s solemnity among the Jews, has a plain typical reference to the seventh chiliad, or millenary of the world, according to the well known tradition among the
A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse