Word: solemnness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last service - as two grandchildren paid sweet, informal tribute - a wind was rising, and lightning flashed in the distance. It is a solemn matter to carry a casket to the earth. Solemn indeed to hear Taps played in darkness broken by a dancing eternal flame. But this was Arlington, where some two dozen burials take place each day. Solemnity hangs over those hills like the atmosphere. Some of those many funerals are for white-haired old warriors, but not in Section 60, where the honored dead of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are marked in spreading ranks of white...
...bacon. People love bacon. Carnivores love it, health nuts crave it, vegetarians forswear solemn oaths for it. Dishes featuring bacon regularly get praise, even gratitude, from judges. Indeed, the power of bacon is so great, it can even overcome the do-not-rely-on-the-freezer rule: Richard Blais did well in Season 4 making bacon ice cream. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go crumble some into a sundae...
...During roughly the same week that Saar decided to remove “al-naqba” from textbooks in Arab schools, a real “catastrophe” exploded in the usually quiet, solemn streets of West Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood. There, Jews of the ultra-orthodox Toldot Aharon sect protested en masse the arrest of a mother of five, taken into custody for starving her three-year-old son until he weighed no fewer than seven kilograms. Toldot Aharon is among the most conservative Hasidic sects that constitute Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox...
...Stodgy types might dismiss these last five as genre films - sophisticated updates of the cartoons and B-movie action fodder with which Hollywood used to corral the kiddies at Saturday matinees. But, first of all, those unpedigreed items today outshine much of the solemn epics produced in the '30s and '40s. And second, the five chosen films of 2008 were all examples of a different kind of genre: the nobility-in-distress art-house drama. Ever since the mid-'90s, when Miramax Films' Harvey Weinstein figured out how to win Oscars by assiduously promoting movies of elevated angst, the ceremony...
...graft the characters from the original show onto a modern sensibility. Creator Gene Roddenberry was fond of moral and political lessons declaimed by actors in pastel polyesters; that was, after all, the late 1960s, an epoch so distant that the word irony hadn't yet been invented. Solemn homilies had to be replaced by gritty action, and thinky by feelie. (Read Richard Corliss' reviews of the original Star Trek TV series, season by season...