Sentence examples for a big serious from inspiring English sources

And Mr Carswell is a big, serious figure.

"This is a big, serious practice now," Ms. Israel said.

This, too, is a big, serious agenda, addressing a real national need.

But it's always fun to have a big, serious thing to find an angle on and make comedy from".

I look as if someone had dumped grape juice on me, a big, serious splash that turns into droplets only when it reaches my neck.

"The 39 Steps" was originally a big, serious, classic 1935 Alfred Hitchcock movie about spies between the wars, dashing heroes and classy dames.

Mr. Zoellick, in a speech this month to the Brookings Institution, said, "Either you get approval of the government," or "you invade, and that's a very big, serious challenge".

He believes the audience straddles two groups – an academic readership that "regards the TLS as an authority [because it] reviews big, serious books properly" and university-educated professional people – lawyers, say, or doctors and accountants – "who are interested in being challenged, big ideas".

This would be a big, intellectually serious agenda, designed to address a big problem.

President Obama, who attended a briefing with officials from FEMA in Washington called Hurricane Sandy "a big and serious storm".

One person who helped organize the conference described the showdown as a "big and serious split among the big parties," with religious Islamic parties doggedly insisting on bigger representation than secular Sunnis and Kurds were willing to give.