The phrase "a serious plight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a difficult or challenging situation that someone is facing, often with a sense of urgency or gravity.
Example: "The community is facing a serious plight due to the recent natural disaster, and immediate assistance is needed."
Alternatives: "a grave situation" or "a dire circumstance."
Rhode Island's housing woes receive little notice compared with the more serious plight of states like Florida and Nevada.
Today the security council will hear about the serious plight of these communities from the UN's special envoy to the region.
Although the effects of the rebellion and its savage suppression were not as terrible as in Muslim Gansu, about 600,000 were killed in Shaanxi, and the accompanying destruction left the province in serious plight.
Benjamin Pauker, executive editor of Foreign Policy, for which Sotloff wrote from Syria, told Al Jazeera that Sotloff took "a serious look at the plight of Syrian refugees.
Joel McRae portrays the plain-spoken director of Hollywood fluff who, much to the horror of his studio bosses, suddenly decides he wants to do a serious film about the plight of downtrodden folk, not that he knows any.
Under his leadership, the membership took a serious interest in the plight of Jews around the world.
It feels more like a Tom Lehrer song than the plight of a serious political party facing a serious struggle.
WHEN Brenda Resnick Spano, the county executive's wife, made a trip to the Westchester Medical Center emergency room recently after she ate something that set off a serious allergic response, she personified the plight of some four million Americans whose life-threatening food allergies can make dining out a risky venture.
"Bonnie and Clyde" is not a serious melodrama involving us in the plight of the innocent but a movie that assumes — as William Wellman did in 1931 when he made "The Public Enemy," with James Cagney as a smart, cocky, mean little crook — that we don't need to pretend we're interested only in the falsely accused, as if real criminals had no connection with us.
"I do feel that the economic plight of blacks is a serious matter," he told The New York Times in 1973.
