Sentence examples for at a certain seriousness from inspiring English sources

The choreographer Ryan Kelly, who runs the Moving Theater company with Brennan Gerard and performed "Impermanent Collection" at the Whitney in 2007, said that because museums hadn't typically collected it, "performance hasn't really arrived at a certain seriousness, by comparison to the plastic arts".

A certain seriousness pervaded a listening party in New York, at which the rapper demanded the bartenders remove everyone's drinks before playing a track called Beautiful People, in order that his audience might concentrate harder on its post-Black Lives Matter message of empowerment.

Her silence conferred a certain seriousness on my question.

She described her likeness as quite thoughtful and relaxed, but with a certain seriousness: "He has got me".

Bringing a certain seriousness to the comic-book movie is one thing, but draining it of all wit is quite another.

Woody's — the name brings to mind endearing icons: the woodpecker, the folk singer, the station wagon — is easygoing, but it also has a certain seriousness of purpose.

Furthermore, these earlier novels all carry a certain seriousness of attitude another important defining aspect of modernist art.

The show is presented in a wider-than-usual widescreen format that gives it a feel we still call "cinematic" and which betokens a certain seriousness.

But a certain seriousness — especially given the retirement of Craig Ferguson, whose "Late Late Show" Letterman's company produced — has gone out of the field.

By contrast to Engels' somewhat breezy manner, Marx comes across as having a certain brooding seriousness about him – a seriousness that is not incompatible, be it noted, with a sardonic sense of humor.

By now, real success and longevity online require both technological skill and a certain fiduciary seriousness.