A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety.
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is s...
Serious journalism need not be solemn.
A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
Clever lies become matters of self-congratulation. Solemn pledges become a farce—laughable for their very solemnity. The Nation, with all its paraphernalia of power and prosperity, its flags and pious hymns, its blasphemous prayers in the churches,...
Cindy: Dean, I give you this ring... Justice of the Peace: As a symbol. Cindy: As a symbol... Justice of the Peace: Of my solemn vow. Cindy: Of my solemn vow... Justice of the Peace: And everlasting love. Cindy: And everlasting love... Justice of the...
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Expressions of solemn testimony have long been important to the children of God upon the earth.
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
a solemn thing worth fearing is the fear of keeping mute to our needful responsibility
The word “marriage” lingered in Guy’s ears, too. It was a solemn word to him. It had the primordial solemnity of holy, love, sin. It was Miriam’s round terra cotta-coloured mouth saying, “Why should I put myself out for you?” and it was A...
