1.
There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.
John Ruskin
2.
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
John Milton
3.
We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the contrary - yet it must be bright, clear, alive fresh, and all the front seen.
John Constable
4.
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Ambrose Bierce
5.
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
Russell Baker
6.
He has no other recommendation,
save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
7.
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel
Plutarch
8.
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.
Theaster Gates
10.
The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
Alfred North Whitehead