He spoke with a certain solemnity and sense of moment as he held his speech close to his eyes.

The weight of dealing with legacies tends to give time-capsule projects a certain solemnity and aura.

His misery assumed a certain solemnity; he was lifted up on the wings of a kind of exaltation.

Eddie pronounced this with a certain solemnity.

Niall observed that she spoke his name with a certain solemnity, as if saying "lord".

Gentlemen," I said to my accomplices with a certain solemnity the next morning, "we don't have to invent connections.

It was a joint ceremony involving all the countries and had a certain solemnity, which is especially important at times of historical significance.

The church calendar avoids the observance of saints' feasts during certain solemnities, moving the saint's day to a time outside those periods.

And the hype has a certain dense solemnity to it.

All were silent now, counting under their breath, and they felt a certain extraordinary solemnity as they counted.