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Example sentences for: solemn

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When 19 th -century composers wanted to be solemn, they invoked the Baroque: Thick counterpoint and a good old passacaglia--variations over a repeating bass--never failed to sound lofty.
When it comes to style in jewels, modern chic has followed Chanel, and Chanel refused to be solemn.
Like Burden, Michael Ashkin does scale models, though his are solemn, not whimsical: stretches of miniature Western highway so realistic that photographs of them are indistinguishable from photos of real highways.
Unlike Martin Scorsese, whose solemn 1988 adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ set off a similar firestorm, Smith has earned the wrath.
In like manner, a French teacher is one who teaches French; a French teacher is a citizen of France who teaches something; a grave -digger is a cemetery employee; a grave digger is a solemn archaelogist or perhaps a single-minded dog with a bone; and a head shrinker is not a head -shrinker but a chief launderer of woolens.