It was a momentary distraction from her more serious task at hand: holding her first fine-jewelry trunk show in India, the country she has called her spiritual and creative home from a very young age.
It was a momentary distraction from her more serious task at hand: "holding her first fine-jewelry trunk show in India, the country she has called her spiritual and creative home from a very young age," Ms. Shah writes.
"These exercises in compulsory origami may be of theoretical interest," Ms. Paulsen and Mr. Gastil wrote, "but they avoid the more serious task of preparing a compelling plan for the public spaces on the ground around them".
Yet, despite how fraught the issues are, Schneiderman says his investigation isn't actually about net neutrality ― it's about the far more serious task of protecting the integrity of our democratic process.
Saint-Gaudens also made many medallions, originally as a diversion from more serious tasks.
And while the removal — or more accurately, the redistribution — of the evaluative task is likely to dilute critical standards, it can also free up the critic to engage in more serious tasks that might bleed back into the culture, providing a stronger skeleton for a range of literary activity.
He must wrestle, as I see it, with the temptation to remain as he was, with the task of enlarging himself against the resistance within him to a more serious purpose, his calling to establish Israel.
A subpoena is a more serious step.
African "tribalism" was a more serious problem.
Exit rows are a more serious matter.
