solemnity
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Europeans love to mock our solemnity, but our recent history speaks for itself—and so does theirs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
All this helps relieve the museum’s windowless solemnity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
It’s evidence of an unorthodox communication disposition developing within the party, away from the solemnity that has defined its reputation throughout the failure of the past decade.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2025
Despite the solemnity of the conversation, Matty chuckled.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
To read this novel is to wade through a great many solemnities on the order of:
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2017
In Ancient Athens, every year the opening solemnities of the Festival of Dionysus would include a parade during which the tribute won from foreign military adventures was proudly displayed.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2017
But the solemnities of the writing are balanced by some excellent performances and superior production values.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2010
These opening solemnities give all the convincing qualities of a three-dollar bill to what actually is an account of one of the great tragedies of modern Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had acted silly even at his own wedding, grinning during the solemnities, clowning when cutting the cake.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
Vocabulary lists containing solemnity
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Purple Hibiscus
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"Rules of the Game" (from The Joy Luck Club) by Amy Tan
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