Sentence examples for Quasi-serious from inspiring English sources
There's at least one quasi-serious subtext here.
Over the next 15 years or so, he took part in a quasi-serious effort to explore Loch Ness for signs of monster.
No amount of shouting "do over!" at the screen can turn the plot around, as it suddenly becomes a quasi-serious thriller to save mankind.
The last quasi-serious effort to come up with a successor was downsized last November, when NASA announced that the Shuttle would remain in service until as late as 2020.
MACY: Well, perhaps some of the holes in the plot (the rape scene) and character (Salander as a sort of anti-victim, Blomkvist as irresistible) have to do with Larsson's tackling a serious and complicated topic — hatred of women, abuse of women — in a quasi-serious genre.
"When I made my communion we were talking about the pope and I said, 'My father has all his records,' and the nun was, like, 'What?' I actually grew up thinking that the pope sang 'Summer Wind.' " In a quasi-serious moment, Ms. Ruggerio said that moving to Los Angeles, at least at the moment, filled her with dread.
It is probably this circumstance that gave to German idealism its intensely serious, quasi-religious, and dedicated character.
The lyrical score shifts rapidly between satirical musical-theater-style excerpts and more serious, quasi-operatic numbers.
Money has transformed the sport into a quasi-corporate and very serious enterprise, but Pernfors thus far has remained an individual with a sense of both humor and perspective.
Writers of historical fiction, in my admittedly limited experience, are usually all too keen to stress how much research they do, and how the novelist's imagination is just the icing on the cake of what is, at heart, a serious, meticulous, quasi-academic line of work.
Unlike traditional stoop-sale holders, who empty their brownstone basements onto the curb once or twice a year, they are members of the growing subculture of stoop-sale regulars: serious, sometimes quasi-professional sellers and buyers who are now visible across the borough all summer long and well into the fall.
