I mean, doesn't it change the -- or make the kind of solemnness of it even more. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference
An hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now. From Wordnik.com. [Statement on House Judiciary Proceedings to Impeach President Richard Nixon] Reference
And hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Cutbirth: My Must-See Moment at Every Inaugural] Reference
I believe hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now. From Wordnik.com. [Opening Statement To The House Judiciary Committee, Proceedings On The Impeachment Of Richard Nixon] Reference
We are dealing, though, here, with a lot of solemnness, a lot of sadness, a lot of grief because of the deaths of four firefighters. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006] Reference
It was very necessary to board the ship-Elder Zaccur Barstow had told them with deep solemnness what lay in store for them if they failed to board. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
A boy of about three, dressed in denim overalls and oversized sneakers, wandered up to the table; his eyes wide with solemnness, he offered Julia a sugar container. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
Alone here, under the wide sky, with only God's open spaces round them, it seemed to her as though his question and her answer to it must partake of the same solemnness as vows exchanged within the hallowed walls of a sanctuary. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Sister Hilda-Antony felt there was a strange and awful stillness and solemnness about the place. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
The confidence she displays here is some distance from the spooky solemnness of the debut record. From Wordnik.com. [Playback:stl Syndication] Reference
Today, I am an inquisitor; I believe hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now. From Wordnik.com. [Jack & Jill Politics] Reference
And so we to look ever backward through dim Ages; and surely we gat presently from jests, unto solemnness; and the Maid to be nigh again unto tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land: Chapter 14] Reference
What particularly struck him was the almost religious solemnness of the entrance, the heavy hangings, the mystic gleams of the stained-glass, the old furniture steeped in chapel-like gloom amidst scattered perfumes of myrrh and incense. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1] Reference
“The manner is, as the company returns, to stop at the Spring Gardens so called, in order to the Park as our Thuilleries is to the Course; the inclosure not disagreeable for the solemnness of the groves, the warbling of the birds, and as it opens into the spacious walks of St. James. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54]
"There's a lot of vets that can only come out at night to do this - the solemnness, they don't want to be around the crowds. From Wordnik.com. [The Columbian stories: Columns] Reference
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Father, you were, all last night or much of last night, you were down there, and we talked -- I only gently disagree, ever -- I think it was hard, of all of the things last night, there was the one thing that was hardest to miss, the -- how that moment, the moment of his death, the hours after his death, the people who had come there to pray for him to live on and the people who were there when the announcement was made, the power of that in their faces, in their eyes, not -- in the tears, in the solemnness of the moment, we saw -- I'm not sure you were able to see, there were these -- beautiful is the only word I can think of here -- beautiful pictures out of Krakow last night, of people who had come to the archbishop's residence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2005] Reference
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