Word: solemnizes
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Revolts, republics, revolutions, most No graver than a schoolboy's barring out Too comic for the solemn things they are Too comic for the solemn things in them...
Shelley scarcely seems to try. He merely offers solemn, almost sorrowful comments on some of the irritating incongruities of modern life. Take air travel, says Shelley, with the carefully controlled tension of a man who has already taken altogether too much. "I never have the slightest doubt about my safety in a plane until I walk into an airport terminal and realize that there is a thriving industry in this building selling life insurance policies . . . What they do by this power of suggestion is that they plant the seed of doubts into an already chicken human being...
Lady L., by Romain Gary. A slim blade of a novel, light and flashing, which slips easily in and out of the worlds of Edwardian fashion, Paris slums and political anarchism, slicing surely at the solemn pretensions of those who love humanity more than they love their fellow...
...annual ritual and as much time as he could get with his kinfolk. For the 7,500 people gathered near the south White House lawn to watch the Christmas tree lighting, Ike had a word that he hoped would be heard across the seas: "I again give my solemn word on behalf of the American people to all the peoples of the world: that the people of the U.S. and their Government do not want war. The U.S. has pledged its national honor to work for peace. For us this pledge is no less than a sacred obligation...
...solemn in his studio as any physicist, and equally bent on the barely possible, Dali pursues his difficult new way. "I have reached a turning point in my art," he says, staring over the waxed candelabra...