All 6 Uses of
solemn
in
Brave New World
- He raised a hand; his expression was solemn.†
p. 7..5 *
- Flood-lighted, its three hundred and twenty metres of white Carrara-surrogate gleamed with a snowy incandescence over Ludgate Hill; at each of the four corners of its helicopter platform an immense T shone crimson against the night, and from the mouths of twenty-four vast golden trumpets rumbled a solemn synthetic music.†
p. 78..8
- "To touch the fence is instant death," pronounced the Warden solemnly.†
p. 102..0
- The idea of this creature solemnly lecturing him–him-about the social order was really too grotesque.†
p. 159..3
- "My young friend," said the Arch-Community-Songster in a tone of loud and solemn severity; there was a general silence.†
p. 176..2
- Seeing them, the Savage made a grimace; but he was to become reconciled to them in course of time; for at night they twinkled gaily with geometrical constellations, or else, flood-lighted, pointed their luminous fingers (with a gesture whose significance nobody in England but the Savage now understood) solemnly towards the plumbless mysteries of heaven.†
p. 245..3
Definition:
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(solemn) in a very serious (and often dignified) manner