Sentence examples for certain seriousness from inspiring English sources

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.

Forging such close links between Silicon Valley and Silicon Roundabout could make easy prey of the latter.Still, the work put in by ministers to secure commitments from these outfits (George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, who has had much else to occupy him, was the most assiduous), suggests a certain seriousness.

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".

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.

And he even approached his vacations with a certain degree of seriousness, planning every last detail.

I put on a certain amount of seriousness when someone comes to visit".

Well, at least there's a certain discipline and seriousness implied in holding the pen upright, ridiculous as it might seem as a cure for every problem.