As an unabashed keeper of the Feast of Christmas, I choose to rub shoulders with the forces of jollification, merriment, and solemnity. |
A person who can feel neither the solemnity nor the awesomeness of nature lacks in our eyes the necessary sense of his own limitations. |
Suddenly the solemnity of the occasion and the majesty of its setting overcame everyone and reverential silence descended. |
They watched, for once, with due solemnity as she picked up her phone, rang Greg's office, and found he wasn't in. |
God can be served not only in the solemnity of a Yom Kippur, but also in the revelry of a Purim. |
There's a melancholy tone to the proceedings, a funeral solemnity, in what is supposed to be a summer sci-fi action blockbuster. |