Sentence examples for a work of serious from inspiring English sources

As a work of serious history, it is beyond useless.

If such parallelism occasionally seems too explicitly fabricated, High Dive is a work of serious and thoughtful integrity.

Its ambitions are intellectual and philosophical – it strives to be, and succeeds as, a work of serious thought.

As well as moving its admirers to rhapsody, Middlemarch is also supremely a work of serious literature.

Over the last 30 years, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" has sold a million copies, an astonishing number for a work of serious scholarship.

Tonight, in addition, Mr. Masur conducts Bartok's Divertimento, a work of serious import as well as diversion, and Joseph Turrin's "Hemispheres," a commissioned piece just given its premiere.

At about the same time, Rogers created a work of more serious import: "The Slave Auction" (1859), in which a villainous white auctioneer solicits bids for a black man and his wife and infant.

It amazed me that someone would react so buffoonishly to a work of such serious import and that none of the other several dozen people on the terrace seemed to pay much attention or take evident offense.

The tensions between the two men had first flared in a private meeting last fall in which Mr. Summers encouraged Dr. West to embark on a new work of serious scholarship that would befit his stature as one of only 14 professors awarded Harvard's elite designation "university professor".

Tom, Aaron argues, is a threat to the work of serious journalists ― a harbinger of journalism's descent into mediocrity and vanity.

More than anything, though, the clothes have a vague sense of sexual optimism, a feature typically absent in the work of serious designers who prefer to dress women up as unfeeling aggressors or poetic victims of emotional self-ravaging.