Sentences with phrase «from solemn»

Beautifully realised, Amreeka is far from a solemn film, mixing bitter and sweet with pleasing results.

Ornate fixtures come to threatening life, decrepit metal staircases lose their screws, and the expressions on carved - wood faces switch from solemn to freaked.

Many of these rules were formed so that the first date remains light and stays away from solemn topics.

He leaped from solemn exhortation to obscene epithet with ease, and the implication was that the latter was just as pertinent and critical and sane as the former.

That strikes us as an admirable description of a great deal that issues from the solemn assemblies of American religion across the denominational board.

«FBI special agents have not, and will not, allow partisan politics to distract us from our solemn commitment to our mission.»

Not exact matches

In November of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November Eleventh as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: «To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations...»

An anathema is a solemn recognition that holding certain beliefs involves us deliberately separating ourselves from God and the Church.

«I would suggest that an almost subliminal reception of the Hebrew Bible, through the chanting of the Psalms and through the solemn injunctions of the bishop in connection with the episcopalis audientia, came to offer a meaning to the word pauper very different from the «pauperized» image of the merely «economic» poor.

On Facebook and Twitter, reactions ranged from gleeful jokes, to political barbs, to conspiracy theories, to patriotism, to pleas for peace, to solemn reflections.

Right after his conversion, they passed the Test Act of 1673, barring Catholics from public employment, by making the prerequisite to such employment a solemn oath against transubstantiation and a declaration that the Mass was idolatry.

When he makes a solemn declaration of a papal definition, he is preserved from the possibility of error.

When the community gathers around its table, one of its representatives narrates a particular story, either of deliverance from Egypt or of a Passover meal laden with the solemn promise of a new covenant.

What 12 - year - old from a loving home would calmly detach from his parents, enter the portals of probably the most daunting building in the city, and be found three days later in solemn debate with theologians of note?

[17] His emphasis on the authority of the episcopate was linked in his mind with the power of excommunication which he saw as «more solemn, and its effect much greater than that of merely separating the guilty individual from the intercourse of his brethren.»

In the songs that were selected for performance as a «message in music», the tempo moved from a slow rendition of «Amazing Grace», through a solemn «His Eye is On the Sparrow» and into a more upbeat improvisation on «Open Up Those Pearly Gates» and «When the Saints Go Marchin» In».

We have already agreed that they are solemn; and we have seen reason to think that the most distinctive of them is the sort of joy which may result in extreme cases from absolute self - surrender.

The instruction was given generally to give reverence to the most solemn part of the ceremony but aisde from not following instructions the SPOILED BRAT suddenly makes a stance even the NCO was still on the microphone and left the formation afterwards without asking permission to make a phone call.

The Third Reader, after talking about a boy who snitched a too - large piece of cake from his mother's plate, reminds students: «There is a day of most solemn judgment at hand.

In all of this, the church - society and church - culture relationships of mainline Protestantism have not changed at all from the situation I described in The Noise of Solemn Assemblies.

And I do hereby request all the People to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.

The dying Joseph extracted the solemn promise from his survivors (binding, of course, on all subsequent generations until fulfilled) that his remains would go out of Egypt with Israel.

Hushed to a sort of humming pax, My peers on kneelers proved they weren't too proud To flood the pews with something close to love — And sparge the solemn nave with grade - school titters When schadenfreude saw its perfect chance: Lace sleeves grew from his chasuble; the host Rose pale amidst the tabernacle's glitters, White ghost on gold.

One is tempted to present a number of such examples as a relief from the more or less solemn material which has perforce been drawn from most of the books discussed here.

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The opening of Gameday features a solemn voice delivering a speech peppered with the phrase «great country» and culminates with, «One country, one game, one goal: Emerge from the fight as champions, as heroes for another day.»

From the very beginning, glowing mothers comment on their child's bubbly disposition or solemn gaze.

Think about it, if you were waiting for your partner to get home, or you were waiting for your best friend to get home from work, and you're just sitting in there in a solemn place.

Both come from the French word, solennel meaning, «solemn.»

He assured further that «in 2018, we will employ 2,000 more extension officers, with the solemn pledge of employing more graduates from our Colleges of Agriculture in the subsequent years.»

I grew up in an anti-apartheid household where play had to be suspended and solemn attention paid whenever there was a bulletin from Johannesburg, so I acquired a visceral attachment to a country I hardly knew.

This is also from the Lion and the Unicorn discussing the British Socialist State and reveals some of the divided savagery in Orwell «s thinking at that time» «It will shoot traitors, but it will give them a solemn trial beforehand and occasionally it will acquit them.

To humans, the twin blue beams shining upward from lower Manhattan each Sept. 11 evoke solemn memories of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Indeed, if a lawyer, a member of the public, or even a politician genuinely believes that the Supreme Court has strayed from the path of constitutional and legal rectitude, then not only is it the right of that person publicly to say so, but it becomes their solemn duty so to do, particularly if one is a lawyer pledged to uphold the law.

Saturday's ceremony is expected to be short and solemn, according to a release from the Planning Committee.

They pretend that they have a solemn obligation to defend the (powerful) majority from the demands of the (powerless) minority and champion people whose emotions are based on a misreading of the facts.

The Governor spoke at the Government House in a solemn session attended by several leaders in the State, including the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, other senators and members of the House of Representatives from the State, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Edward Ubosi, former information minister, Chief Nnia Nwodo, among others.

While it's one of the more solemn activities you'll find in Amsterdam, millions line up each year to take a quiet walk through the now empty series of rooms that housed Anne Frank, her family, and her red diary for over two years during WWII as they hid from Nazi invasion.

But «Trees Lounge,» named after the bar, is far from being a solemn mope fest.

«Showtime's new series from American Crime creator John Ridley, TV's ranking poli - sci auteur, is a smart and solemn period piece that indicts unreconstructed post-colonial western society while taking the piss out of anyone who wants to blow it up.»

But Assayas also refers specifically to Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944), a recently rediscovered Swedish pioneer of abstract art who claimed that her paintings were directly dictated by spirit forces, and to 19th - century French literary titan Victor Hugo, who practiced «table turning» sessions to contact the dead (Assayas fabricates an «extract» from an apocryphal French TV film of the 1960s, featuring actor - singer Benjamin Biolay as a solemn Hugo).

Côté is able to mine a wry humour from his animal subjects in places, as when the enormous eye of an ostrich flicks about the screen, or a solemn bull transfixes us with its glare.

Moonlighting playwright Martin McDonagh quickly yanked a trapdoor on his gallows humor — jerking from wry cringe comedy to a surreal congregation of blinded skinheads, fat Americans and midgets on drug benders before a violent, solemn climactic parable about purgatory.

Released: July 28 Cast: Menashe Lustig, Yoel Falkowitz, Ruben Niborski, Meyer Schwartz Director: Joshua Z Weinstein Why it's great: In this solemn stunner, a certifiable schlub struggles to keep his job as a clerk at a grocery store, be a father to his stubborn son (and remain in custody), move on from his recently deceased wife, and live up to society's high standard — Menashe isn't just another Brooklynite, he's an Orthodox Jew suffocating to death on the rules and observances.

Peter Landesman's Nixon era drama is a rather dark and solemn affair, which despite suffering greatly from being far too expositional, still manages to somehow get under your skin and is likely to stay with you long after the credits have rolled.

A muddily solemn study of refugees at an Amazonian intersection of nationalities — and other existential states — turns quite literally luminous in «Los Silencios,» a sensitively observed, patience - rewarding sophomore feature from Brazilian writer - director Beatriz Seigner.

A flick which subtly suggests that the AMA ought to consider changing its solemn Hippocratic Oath from «First, do no harm,» to the much more honest «First, maximize profits.»

The level of lawlessness in its first half - hour is as legendary as the brilliant prologue to John Milius's original, from Conan's birth - by - unplanned - Caesarean on a raging battlefield to the presence of none other than Morgan Freeman, lured into a payday to provide solemn narration.

Pakula's name belongs on my earlier list of redoubtable directors who stumbled in» 78: a sense of urgency is missing from this enterprise, and the movement into solemn mythologizing is too academic, too uncomplicated by the sorts of existential miscellany the Hellman and Herzog films are chockfull of.