solemn

Every four years the people as a whole make a solemn national decision as to the person whom they trust to make these prudential judgments.”

Old and young, many of their faces solemn, prayed together inside, where even the minbar, the imam's raised platform, seemed intact.

Soon, we would raise our right hands and swear the Oath of Allegiance to the United States in a ceremony that is known as both solemn and celebratory.

In a 1943 self-portrait in oil, he locks eyes with the viewer, the determined look on his face evidence of the solemn responsibility he felt to be an artistic voice for the oppressed.

And it happened in Crumpsall last Thursday, on the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar.