Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both sing well, and though his characterization isn't terribly heroic, her threat to shoot everybody on stage at the end (oh, dear!) is surprisingly solid. Bob Berger's choreography for the dream sequence, and Lindsay Davis's costumes for it -- a set of immaculate white robes for the solemn lookers-on, spotless black for the duellers -- is particularly effective...
...standing ovation crowds, it was performed in Kabuki style and dress. Since then it has been a bit different at every run (this is to be its fifth). Here the genre is undefinable: some ritual-like dances and primitive-looking celebrations resemble an orgiastic Zoroastrean ceremony, others are solemn and formal. Schwartz, who says that his play works best when least Biblical in tone, is pleased with this...
...many more in flak vests, baseball caps and heavy boots, come and go in the area of the BIA building. It is a reunion for many of the federal marshals, distinctive in their flag-bedecked blue jumpsuits. Across the street, on a dried mudbank, sit a line of solemn-faced Indians taking...
...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...