Word: solemnness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think I will take it to be my responsibility to be somewhat less solemn than the Commencement speakers the next day," he said. "I'll try to strike a balance between outrageous humor and mild inspiration...
About 200 people gathered yesterday for a solemn service in Cambridge's First parish Church commemorating the victims of the Salem witch trials 300 years...
Last week Gravano described his 1976 induction into the Gambino family, a solemn ceremony over which Castellano presided. The man whose murder Gravano would later help orchestrate pricked the novice's trigger finger and dripped blood onto the picture of a saint, which was then set on fire...
LYNDON JOHNSON also seems to have thought his predecessor was a hawk, or at the very least found a justification for his own hawkishness in that interpretation. Riding Air Force One back to D.C. immediately after the assassination, Johnson writes, "I made a solemn private vow: I would devote every hour of every day during the remainder of John Kennedy's unfulfilled term to achieving the goals he had set. That meant seeing things through in Vietnam...I made this promise not out of blind loyalty but because I was convinced that the broad lines of his policy, in Southeast...
CINEMA For most new Christmas movies, 'tis the season to be solemn...