A month later officials insisted they did not "know of any serious explanation for the phenomena".
A more serious explanation of the current malaise lies in the rise of the environmental movement and the pervasive influence within it of a dogmatism based on the belief that modern technology adversely affects our relationship with nature.
"And I sort of give them a very serious explanation of why it's shaped like it is.
A pretty little thing was heard finishing a long and serious explanation, "And that's why I think Papa is going to shoot him".
A pretty little thing was heard finishing a long and serious explanation, "And that's why I think Papa is going to….
His deadly serious explanation of the coal oven makes a dandy aria.
There is no discussion, lamented the author, of "social and cultural domination, violence, relegation, exploitation, alienation at work, class, struggle etc .A more serious explanation could be that Mr Piketty was too closely linked to a proposal by François Hollande, France's Socialist president, during his 2012 election campaign to introduce a now-discredited 75% top income-tax rate.
But the tradition that Dylan is steeped in is inarguably deep, and his fascinating, rambling, and yet completely serious explanation of how the tradition worked on him — how "John Henry" became "Blowin' in the Wind"; how "Deep Ellum Blues" became "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" — is among the best of his recent performances.
None of these attempts appears to be at all convincing to skeptics and other critics of astrology, however, and no serious explanation seems to exist regarding the alleged spheres of influence of the planets, the alleged nature of their influences, or the manner in which they operate.
