Word: solemn
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...Being solemn is easy. Being serious is hard. You probably have to be born serious, or at least go through a very interesting childhood. Children almost always begin by being serious, which is what makes them so entertaining when compared to adults as a class...
Adults, on the whole, are solemn. The transition from seriousness to solemnity occurs in adolescence, a period in which nature, for reasons of her own, plunges people into foolish frivolity. During this period the organism struggles to regain dignity by recovering childhood's genius for seriousness. It is usually a hopeless cause...
...Chicago is serious. California is solemn...
...Blow-dry hair stylings on anchormen for local television news shows are solemn. Henry James is serious...
...Falling in love, getting married, having children, getting divorced and fighting over who gets ... the car and the Wedgwood are all serious. The new sexual freedom is solemn...