solemnity

It’s clearly a passion project, and like many passion projects, it can go overboard at times, grow overstuffed, not to say oversolemn — though solemnity, to be sure, is appropriate to the history.

"There was a calmness, a bit of solemnity," he continued, adding that everyone he spoke to when in it was "peaceful and just wanting to do this well".

Not different in how it was done or the solemnity of the moment as MPs fell quiet and listened respectfully.

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

Some were passed along by longtime Angelenos with the solemnity of handing down a family heirloom.