Word: solemnizes
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...Caturla had found eight that were entirely unknown to the outside world. There was a child Jesus sitting with a crown of thorns in his lap, a warmly devout Santa Eufemia, and The Holy Family clustered around a bowl of fruit. Among other outstanding works in the show: a solemn Santa Lucia and a prayerful, intent Fray Geronimo Perez...
...over the world . . . When democracy's enemies have been judged guilty of a crime as horrible as that of which the Rosenbergs were convicted, when the legal processes of democracy have been marshaled to their maximum strength to protect the lives of convicted spies, when in their most solemn judgment the tribunals of the U.S. have adjudged them guilty and the sentence just, I will not intervene in this matter...
...oblong cabinet room of 10 Downing Street, nine Prime Ministers met in solemn, smoke-filled conclave to discuss the fate of the world, so far as it can be influenced by the British Commonwealth...
Three years ago, Hendrik G. Luitwieler, official restorer for Rotterdam's Boymans Museum, was examining an interesting 15th century painting up for sale. Titled Offering of the Jews, it showed solemn-faced men in bright robes about to sacrifice a lamb. The painter's name was unknown, but similarities in style clearly identified him as the painter of another work, now in the town of Douai, France, showing the Israelites receiving manna from heaven. Art experts call the unknown painter "the Master of the Collection of Manna," believe that he lived in northern Holland...
...Queen knelt at the altar, kissed the Holy Bible and made her solemn oath: "The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God." With a golden pen she signed a copy of the oath, the only formal contract between Sovereign and subjects. The Moderator of the Church of Scotland presented her with the Bible. "[It] is the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is wisdom; this is the royal law; these are the lively oracles...