Word: solemn
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...first graced Time's cover in 1929 as a solemn, curly-haired 3-year-old. Elizabeth has tended to be serious, not glamorous (that was sister Margaret), beloved (her mother) or idolized (Diana). Yet her story inspired in our readers respect, devotion and admiration for how she has guided Britain with grace and dignity...
Following chants of "one more song" and "we want Ben" after Folds left the stage, the artist and his band returned for an encore, "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces," parting with the words, "Kiss my ass, kiss my ass goodbye...
After reading a line like that, it’s frustrating to go back to the solemn self-importance of the other poems. In “Night Walk,” the narrator makes his way to an all-night convenience store that is mysteriously empty. The poem ends with tiresome transcendence. “Walking home, for a moment /you almost believe you could start again. /And an intense love rushes to your heart /and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable,” he writes. These lines could be a microcosm of the whole collection: well...
...venue. The opening dance, “Not Fire, Not Ice” choreographed by graduate student Marita L. Sheldon, set the evening’s tone. Five black-clad dancers took to the dimly lit stage and cycled through poses eerily suggestive of death throes as a solemn voice boomed lines from Robert Frost’s apocalyptic poem “Fire and Ice”. Odd mechanical sound effects and a metronomic beating heart underscored the poetry and contributed to the piece’s ominous air. “In,” a jaunty duet...
...organization of Lukashenko's election: all so orderly, just like in Switzerland, he enthused. Well, yes, order is admirable - didn't the trains run on time under Mussolini, which doesn't always happen in Italy under democracy? That's the eternal problem: democracy is messy, dictatorship is orderly and solemn - not unlike a cemetery...