Sentence examples for as something serious from inspiring English sources

"When I ask my undergraduates, they are just as likely to see symbols of Nazism as a source of humor as something serious.

"You can be accustomed to something for so long, you stop seeing it as something serious," says Dr Dorothy Memusi at Kenya's National Malaria Control Programme in Nairobi.

And with its 32bit architecture and 4.3-inch widescreen display, it wanted to be seen as something serious, something you could play epic action adventures and shooters on.

As new Post-Schar School polling makes clear, this line of argument has helped shift perceptions of the investigation, with about half the country seeing the probe as more of a distraction than as something serious.

Hunt's view of architecture was as something serious, deep and lasting; it is just that he did not believe that having principles required speaking in a single stylistic language.

It's fair to say that young people can still see the value of a phone call, but perhaps we understand it as something serious and significant, to be used in much more specific contexts and shared with a select group of people.

I remember first hearing "Requiem for the Masses" not on the radio – it scarcely made the charts, peaking at number 100 – but on the Smothers Brothers TV show, in a performance that struck me then as something as serious as popular entertainment could be.

They played as if something serious was at stake.

It is open-ended, mysterious, as if something serious is about to happen.

But when it's something serious — as serious as cancer, as the expression goes — speaking up becomes oddly terrifying.

The cuteification of an adult thing, the shot glass, is a power move; a way to render something "bad" as good, or something serious as fun.