solemnity

Example Sentences

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All this helps relieve the museum’s windowless solemnity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Unfortunately, the jokes are far outweighed by the solemnity.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2025

Despite its respectful restraint, “Eric LaRue” can be smothering in its solemnity, leaving Janice feeling one-note rather than a woman lost in her tangle of emotions.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

The solemnity echoing the national mood as flags fly at half-mast.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025

In spite of her secret hostility toward the colonel, it was Fernanda who imposed the rigor of that mourning, impressed by the solemnity with which the government exalted the memory of its dead enemy.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez