But this is something which is as serious as those things and we really need everybody's support.
It covered more serious things as well — filibusters and changes in Senate rules and the manipulations behind committee assignments, for example — but rarely legislation, at least in the early years.
Taylor supported the name "IV" because he liked "giving people the wrong impression all the time", and defended his opinion, saying "if [people] give us any time, they would see that we're very serious about comedy... and serious things as well".
The whole thing, as serious as it is, looks like a children's game, which I think is what Ratmansky is saying about the hope of heaven.
It isn't hard to unpick the subtext here: "Remember, folks, there's such a thing as serious literature; it has little to do with Dan Brown or Harry Potter, and these days most of us tend to ignore it, but it's actually kind of important".
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And she looked the part, shimmering in a silky pink sleeveless dress, smiling even more than usual as she spoke of serious things.
I have never really got round to talking to him about serious things as we spend most of the time arguing about whether or not I should tread on the bottom step of the stairs (apparently it wears out the carpet disproportionately resulting in an aesthetically displeasing lack of symmetry).
"They didn't view it as a serious thing".
"I think people should respond to this as a serious thing," he said, "but I also think that they shouldn't overreact".
