Sentence examples similar to a shade serious from inspiring English sources

In person (and in a pair of glasses), Mr. Samberg is an easygoing and unhurried guy, only a shade more serious than he was in his recent goofy appearance at a Comedy Central roast of James Franco, where Mr. Samberg easily insulted himself but could not quite bring himself to mock the night's guest of honor or any other performer on the dais.

As the film opens, Veronica is living in New York, about to graduate from law school, and happily engaged to Piz (Chris Lowell), who is as sweet as ever though a shade more serious.

Your eyelash is a shade.

She's a shade menopausal.

It was a shade flabby.

It was about $450 a shade.

She smiled, as if a shade embarrassed.

That may be a shade too simplistic.

Or a shade over.

Everything is a shade of oatmeal.

It is a shade and ornamental tree.