He was slow and methodical out there, blending things together with an almost religious solemnity.

He is a new man, with new perceptions, new and keener purposes, and a religious solemnity of character and aims.

Of course, sweets are the ultimate comfort food, but their appeal may also be the subversive pleasure they provide at a time of religious solemnity.

The failure to be rowdy and cartoonish enough for purists has stuck with Television: in Jon Savage's 1991 history of punk rock, "England's Dreaming," he refers to the band "exuding a religious solemnity."

The soldiers who accompanied it marched stiffly with an almost religious solemnity.

Dining with the van der Luydens was at best no light matter, and dining there with a Duke who was their cousin was almost a religious solemnity.

No blessing sought; no solemn vows of mutual fidelity; no religious solemnity whatever .

The priests had noticed this breach of religious solemnity, and Urbaal thought: They will remember that Amalek couldn't con- trol his wife.

"A most sublime artifact," the foreman said with almost religious solemnity.

Until a comparatively recent date, the great religious solemnities in the diocese often gave rise to ducasses, sumptuous processions in which giants, huge fishes, devils, and representations of heaven and hell figured prominently.