Sentence examples for a highly serious from inspiring English sources
He's the Dutch provocateur who became one of the biggest names in 80s-90s Hollywood, specialising in abrasively violent science fiction (RoboCop, Starship Troopers) and sexually intense thrillers and melodramas such as Basic Instinct and the flamboyantly brassy Showgirls – a film widely regarded as a bad joke, yet viewed in France as a highly serious artistic statement.
"My BSR colleagues and I view Apple as a company that is making a highly serious effort to ensure that labor conditions in its supply chain meet the expectations of applicable laws, the company's standards and the expectations of consumers," wrote Aron Cramer, BSR's president.
Management of medical wastes generated at different hospitals in Egypt is considered a highly serious problem.
Delay in testing, and hence immunization, leads to an increased risk for congenital rubella, a highly serious disease.
The data suggest that HF remains a highly serious and lethal condition for most hospitalized patients but that patients' long-term prognosis has been improving.
Stalking is a highly dangerous and serious crime with a direct correlation to fear, physical violence and murder, yet it's often a punchline.
There was a time, for example, when David Ayer's Fury (Sony, 15) was seen to have gold-plated potential: a brawny, stern-faced second world war drama starring Brad Pitt, it ticked a lot of highly serious boxes, only to wind up with even fewer nominations (zero, to be exact) than that brawny, stern-faced second world war drama by Pitt's missus.
This intra-site interference becomes highly serious in a radar system that employs a long pulse (e.g., pulse compression radar) and that deals with volume-type targets (e.g., weather radar).
Or rather, it was one highly serious joke, a place whose existence brought up a slew of line-blurring logical inconsistencies worth taking into consideration.
"I suppose a certain kind of traditional, highly serious journalist would say, 'Kurt, are you out of your mind?,' " Mr. Andersen said, shrugging.
This concert was nominally a celebration, but was full of the highly serious stuff the group does best.
