All 16 Uses of
solemn
in
Catch-22
- In a bed in the small private section at the end of the ward, always working ceaselessly behind the green plyboard partition, was the solemn middle-aged colonel who was visited every day by a gentle, sweet-faced woman with curly ash-blond hair who was not a nurse and not a Wac and not a Red Cross girl but who nevertheless appeared faithfully at the hospital in Pianosa each afternoon wearing pretty pastel summer dresses that were very smart and white leather pumps with heels half high…†
Chpt 1
- In Yossarian's group there was only a mounting number of enlisted men and officers who found their way solemnly to Sergeant Towser several times a day to ask if the orders sending them home had come in.†
Chpt 3
- They were waiting for the orders sending them home to safety to return from Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters in Italy, and while they waited they had nothing to do but worry and bite their nails and find their way solemnly to Sergeant Towser several times a day to ask if the order sending them home to safety had come.†
Chpt 3
- 'It was a godsend,' Doc Daneeka confessed solemnly.†
Chpt 5 *
- 12 BOLOGNA Actually, it was not Captain Black but Sergeant Knight who triggered the solemn panic of Bologna, slipping silently off the truck for two extra flak suits as soon as he learned the target and signaling the start of the grim procession back into the parachute tent that degenerated into a frantic stampede finally before all the extra flak suits were gone.†
Chpt 12
- Each time the fall of a city like Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major — de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.†
Chpt 13
- The father continued solemnly with his head lowered.†
Chpt 18
- After a few seconds of solemn deliberation, he licked the tip of his pencil carefully and wrote under 'Black Eyes!†
Chpt 21
- You should have seen the arrogant old bore, sitting there so sternly in that car like the Almighty Himself, with his big, rigid head and his foolish, solemn face.†
Chpt 23
- 'It does,' Milo informed him solemnly.†
Chpt 24
- The chaplain memorized the prophetic words solemnly, entranced further by their esoteric import.†
Chpt 25
- 'He's probably afraid to come down,' Sergeant Knight answered, without moving his solemn gaze from McWatt's solitary climbing airplane.†
Chpt 30
- 'See?' he said to the major, who had come to his side and was peering solemnly over his shoulder.†
Chpt 36
- Her dead body was still lying on the pavement when Yossarian arrived and pushed his way politely through the circle of solemn neighbors with dim lanterns, who glared with venom as they shrank away from him and pointed up bitterly toward the second-floor windows in their private, grim, accusing conversations.†
Chpt 39
- Yossarian hauled himself over onto his side and shook his head in solemn mockery.†
Chpt 41
- Yossarian watched him solemnly, and neither of the two men stirred at the rattling noise of a speeding vehicle skidding to a stop outside and the sound of racing footsteps pounding toward the building in haste.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(solemn) in a very serious (and often dignified) manner