solemn
Example Sentences
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In a year crowded with overwhelming headlines, the moment of the papal election felt slow, solemn and reflective.
In shades of today’s generational divide on college campuses, the younger Na’vi have an ethical disagreement with their elders about their rejection of an outcast whale, Payakan, who speaks in comically solemn subtitles.
From Los Angeles Times
The city has always been comfortable with contrast—old and new shoulder to shoulder, solemn tradition twisted into something unexpected without apology.
From Salon
It was not a time for solemn museums.
The fact that it was a parlor game, not pointillism, that inspired the lyric is proof of Sondheim’s credo that “playful doesn’t mean trivial any more than solemn means serious.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
