Lowell may have belonged to the last generation to believe seriously in the poetic vocation.
The resultant rise in potential student debt will, I believe, seriously impact on people's choices.
It takes the wishful thinking of a desperate Tory, or unusual paranoia on the part of the Labour Party, to believe seriously that either outcome portends mass working-class abstention in a general election.No crisis then.
Few people would believe seriously that Greece's debt ratio would fall to 120% by 2020, as originally envisaged, or even by 2022, as EU ministers are now prepared to accept.
Ask him or her politely to list any of the things they believe seriously hurt the relationship, and what you might have done differently in a perfect world.
On one occasion, Hughes found her hair crispy with what he believed - seriously - to have been another man's emissions.
No one could have believed more seriously than Rahel in the cultivation of the spirit.
"Ideologies are harmless," wrote Arendt, "… only as long as they are not believed in seriously.
Patients with chronic pain and depression claimed that empathy helped them feel understood, believed, taken seriously, and that their needs were met.
Richard Garriott, the founder of Origin, told me that, apart from the period style, Tolkien inspired him to take make-believe seriously — to know, for instance, more details of his virtual world than game players would ever learn.
