With such a stodgy and foreboding appearance, it is hard for us to imagine that exciting events might transpire within those solemn chambers.
The political mission for the solemn and stern military historian, the ancient topography for the eager and eclectic practitioner concerned with the history of archaeology?
Both the ladies wept; and to us all it was a sad and solemn leave-taking.
With regard to the second, it might often be right to make a solemn declaration.
Moreover, a solemn protest against it was signed, it is said, by 11,000 members of the clergy and 137,000 laymen.
The women's choir takes a solemn approach to the chant using semiological principles.
The first has a slow, solemn quality; the second has more facility in its manner, more delicacy in its forms.
Crucial details in this music make it more than just ceremonious and solemn, make it tell us something about the society we see on stage.
