Sentence examples for Seriousness from inspiring English sources

A charge is generated when comedy and seriousness mix, when funny people admit that not everything is always funny.

He could make wry jokes and become expansive after hours in the bar, but he wrote with dedicated seriousness, weighing and polishing every phrase.

No reporter has ever in his life... said in all seriousness that a forward line moved as if younger than springtime".

There was little understanding of the interlinked economic, social and environmental crises whose shape and seriousness are clearer by the day.

But the chemistry between Abdul and Cowell was what made those early seasons so amusing, Simon trying manfully to try and keep the show's semblance of seriousness going while, for example, Abdul growled at him or stepping in before Abdul makes things a little too X-rated for a family show.

The criteria include the seriousness of the suspected criminal activity, the reliability of the information, the age and personal circumstances of the person involved, Australia's interest in securing cooperation from overseas agencies, and the risk of the death penalty being imposed.

Det Sgt Jon Saxby said: "These sentences reflect the seriousness of these offences – organised, professional thieves who stole lorries and lorry loads to sell on.

In his autobiography, MacGregor dismissed the exchange as "largely a matter of semantics" and played down the seriousness of the rift.

There is a striking disconnection in Athens between the blithe lack of concern that the government evinces, and which it has successfully communicated to much of the public, and the objective seriousness of Greece's plight.

He told me – in all seriousness – that, as a volunteer at a school, he just gets so many hugs now.

"We acknowledge the action that has been taken by both the Russian state and football bodies but neither can be said to have been effective in tackling the scale and seriousness of the issues," the report by Fare and the Sova Centre said.