Outwardly he maintained a bearing of rigid solemnity ; foreign visitors described Philip as being so impassive in public he resembled a statue, and he was said to have been seen to laugh only three times in the course of his entire public life.

Fabre noted: Others again have reproached me with my style, which has not the solemnity, nay, better, the dryness of the schools.

The solemnity and somberness of the occasion has led to a phenomenon whereby in the course of history the liturgical provisions have a tendency to persist without substantial modification, even over the centuries.

Non-Sunday holy days of obligation all have the rank of solemnity.

This desire is said to have been increased by a vision of the Church under the appearance of the full moon having one dark spot, which signified the absence of such a solemnity.

Meanwhile, James I seemed to have lost faith in this method of discouraging heresy actions owed more to a thaw in his private attitude to Roman Catholics than to any feelings about the impropriety or inadvisability of burning heretics and seeing that heresy still survived, “ publicly preferred that heretics hereafter, though condemned, should silently and privately waste themselves away in the prison rather than to grace them, and amuse others, with the solemnity of a public execution ”.

As an additional privilege, they have the option of also using a purple ferraiuolo, a silk cape worn with the red-trimmed black cassock for non-liturgical events of special solemnity ( for instance, graduations and commencements ).

As the family and friends gather in solemnity in the vet's waiting room, Willie weeps over his dog ’ s vet bed, telling him everything he ever should have done ; that he will never have a friend like him again.

Clean, white " ash for the purification ceremonies is regarded as the basis of ritual life ," which, " are essentially the rites proper to the tending of a domestic fire, for the temple fire is that of the hearth fire raised to a new solemnity.

A solemnity is the highest ranking feast day in the liturgical calendar of the Latin Church, commemorating an event in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary, or another important saint.

Clean, white " ash for the purification ceremonies regarded as the basis of ritual life ", which " are essentially the rites proper to the tending of a domestic fire, for the temple cult is that of the hearth fire raised to a new solemnity " ( Boyce, 1975: 455 ).

According to the Classic of Filial Piety, Confucius once said: " In serving his parents, a filial son reveres them in daily life ; he makes them happy while he nourishes them ; he takes anxious care of them in sickness ; he shows great sorrow over their death ; and he sacrifices to them with solemnity.

Clean, white " ash for the purification ceremonies regarded as the basis of ritual life ," which, " are essentially the rites proper to the tending of a domestic fire, for the temple is that of the hearth fire raised to a new solemnity " ( Boyce, 1975: 455 ).

That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.

By the term " divine " James meant " any object that is godlike, whether it be a concrete deity or not " to which the individual feels impelled to respond with solemnity and gravity.

Divination for the coming year is often done, whether in all solemnity or as games for the children.

Rococo is incompatible with the solemnity of the Divine Office, nor is it suitable for the elements of worship such as the Tabernacle, the altar or the pulpit.

When these feasts fall a weekday of Great Lent, the normal Lenten aspect of the services is lessened to celebrate the solemnity.

Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday.

In the Roman Rite, the Easter octave allows no other feasts to be celebrated or commemorated during it ; a solemnity, such as the Annunciation, falling within it is transferred to the following Monday.

This service is somewhat more festive in character, and derives its name of " Royal " from both the fact that the Hours are served with more solemnity than normal, commemorating Christ the King who humbled himself for the salvation of mankind, and also from the fact that this service was in the past attended by the Emperor and his court.

With the exceptions noted in the table below, a solemnity that falls on the same day as a celebration of higher rank is transferred to the next day not of higher rank.

Since then, on each 11 November or as the case may be, it is at the foot of the War Memorial that Mauritians continue to celebrate Remembrance Day with all solemnity and respect due to the event.

This spot is to be reverenced with religious awe and solemnity of demeanour, by those whose affairs lead them to visit it.

If the feast day falls on a Sunday, it is observed on the next available day, usually Monday, March 20, unless another solemnity ( e. g., a church's patronal saint ) falls on that day.

Faerie culture is undefinable as a group ; however, it has similar characteristics to " Marxism, feminism, paganism, Native American and New Age spirituality, anarchism, the mythopoetic men's movement, radical individualism, the therapeutic culture of self-fulfillment and self-actualization, earth-based movements in support of sustainable communities, spiritual solemnity coupled with a camp sensibility, gay liberation and drag.

It is quite conformable to tradition, moreover, to invest this Office with a particular solemnity.

The Feast of the Sacred Heart is a solemnity in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar, and is celebrated 19 days after Pentecost.

Kongali Bihu ( mid-October, also called Kati-Bihu ) has a different flavor as there is less merriment and the atmosphere has a sense of constrain and solemnity.

Early English translations of the Bible used thou and never you as the singular second-person pronoun, with the double effect of rescuing thou from complete obscurity and also imbuing it with an air of religious solemnity that is antithetical to its former sense of familiarity or disrespect.

Psychologically this is seen by some to convey a fond celebration of the deceased rather than the traditional solemnity.

The worshippers made no appearance of solemnity towards the ceremony and came and went as they pleased, leaving incense offerings and praying.

On the following day, Pope Gregory pronounced a sentence of excommunication against Henry IV with all due solemnity, divested him of his royal dignity and absolved his subjects from the oaths they had sworn to him.

So I waylaid him as he left the vestry, and on our homeward walk I tackled him about his heresies ... At last he let go my arm, and, facing me as we stood upon the pavement, he repeated with great solemnity his gospel message and appeal.

Since it was the Virgin Mary's Day, he called the people of the village to him and with a simple but impressive solemnity proclaimed this place as Sta.

Dover acted as Porter's legal agent between 1622 and 1640, and through him James sent some of his own clothes to Dover, " purposely to grace him and consequently the solemnity the Games ".

Its stark concrete walls evoke the solemnity of death.

Popayán is widely known for the solemnity of its Easter processions, during which it commemorates the passion and death of Jesus Christ.

Its stark concrete walls evoke the solemnity of death.

" The song alludes to Absalom's feelings of solemnity and abandonment of love and hope.

Salieri's first French opera contained scenes of great solemnity and festivity ; yet overshadowing it all was darkness and revenge.

: The old tunnel, that used to lie there under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, now all closed and filled up, and soon to be utterly forgotten, with all its reminiscences ; however, there will, for a few years yet be many dear ones, to not a few Brooklynites, New Yorkers, and promiscuous crowds besides.

Depending on the solemnity of the situation different grades of kowtow would be used.

" A " solemnity of the Lord " was proclaimed for the following day, which began in the morning with sacrifices and was followed by revelry.

He gave orders for the birth to be announced with all the solemnity usually accorded to the arrival of a male heir.

Six weeks after Comyn was killed in Dumfries, Bruce was crowned King of Scots by Bishop William de Lamberton at Scone, near Perth on 25 March with all formality and solemnity.

While dealing with serious topics in what are now known as anthropology, sociology and psychology, he introduced a satirical approach, " based on the premise that, however serious the subject under review, it could be made more interesting and thus achieve greater effect, if only one leavened the lump of solemnity by the insertion of a few amusing anecdotes or by the throwing out of some witty or paradoxical observations.

* In the opening chapter of Leo Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich the characters contrast the solemnity of the funeral ceremony with the desire to escape and play whist.

There are degrees of solemnity of the office of the feast days of saints.

At the request of the Special Assembly for the Americas of the Synod of Bishops, he named Our Lady of Guadalupe patron of the Americas on 22 January 1999 ( with the result that her liturgical celebration had, throughout the Americas, the rank of solemnity ), and visited the shrine again on the following day.