Word: solemnization
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...enlightenment, or the end of the old morality, depending upon one's point of view. Whether Eve was culprit or victim in the forced evacuation of Paradise is now an issue raised by some feminists. The female orgasm and male impotence are the serious, not to say solemn objects of growing scientific studies. Equality between men and women in all fields is an agitated cause...
...there is, embedded in such infirm companions, a subtle aura, reminiscent of the sorrow which leaps up from the pages of old photograph albums: it could be called the aesthetic composition of a moment in time, where all the properties of a retrieved past appear in the present eidetic, solemn, and ill-at-ease...
Last week the modern disciples of Rumi, who were ending their first tour of North America to promote Turkish culture, performed their 700-year-old ritual at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Nine dervishes, solemn in long black capes and tall cylindrical hats, entered the hall led by a sheik. Beckoned by the chant of a blind singer and the melancholy solo of a reed flute, they threw off their voluminous black cloaks, symbols of the tomb that they believe encases the soul. Slowly and gracefully they began to revolve, their long white skirts billowing into circles. Gradually they extended...
...biographer of James Thurber is almost certain to put himself inexplicably in the wrong, because whatever approach he takes-jocular, solemn, literary, psychological-he is likely to provoke satirical muttering from Thurber's ghost. The tone of the present biography, an examination of Thurber's literary career by a Pomona College English professor, is clonking and scholarly, and sure enough, muttering seems distinctly audible...
...group of less solemn souls paraded loudly down Mt. Auburn St. singing "Happy Birthday," to a student they carried on their shoulders...