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Example sentences for: solemn

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The Dutch St. Nicholas was an ambivalent figure: He was lean and solemn, and he gave bad children birch rods.
With a not quite solemn air, Rosenbaum raises the Problem of the Baby Pictures--the conundrum of Hitler's humanity, his rosy-cheeked normalcy when he was young--and then quotes the film director Claude Lanzmann, who calls the baby pictures an "obscenity."
Still, Miyajima manages to be both solemn and lively.
Once every two weeks there is a solemn Changing of the Guard parade, similar to the one at Buckingham Palace in London, performed to the accompaniment of the Police Band.
When it comes to style in jewels, modern chic has followed Chanel, and Chanel refused to be solemn.