Sentence examples for at seriousness from inspiring English sources

The attempts at seriousness are also helped by Will wearing his serious face throughout.

All this might be harmless enough, except that the program makes some feint at seriousness.

Every fiction is a leap in the dark, and a failed grasp at seriousness is to be respected for what it attempts.

It hardly helps that the screenplay calls for Mr. Dreyfuss to interrupt almost any stab at seriousness with some kind of a gag.

Wonks: They're Just Like Us On Monday, in one of our occasional attempts at seriousness, we went to the Four Seasons for a book party.

But these passages — and some fleeting attempts at seriousness, as in brief considerations of the basic similarities between Christianity and paganism — aren't enough to rescue "Godiva" from self-satire.

At festivals, seriousness often comes in the key of misery, even when the work exalts.

"And we have to look at the seriousness of their threats.

Between lovers There exist no rigid rules As romance laughs at The seriousness of science, The rationale of physics.

Uecker is masterly at turning seriousness into humor and his mediocrity as a ballplayer (a.200 career batting average and 14 home runs) into comedy.

Average sale prices have declined by about 10percentt, but that only hints at the seriousness of the trouble, because hardly anything is moving.