Two new books show how easy it is to make him either too big, too grandiose and epic, or too small, an easy-to-take pop artist, in a way that erases his commitment to literary seriousness of the most earnest, modernist kind.
Like Mr. Godard, Mr. Portabella clings to aesthetic principles — a commitment to difficulty, to seriousness, to scenes involving fine-boned women with grave expressions and without clothes — that can seem both fragile and complacent.
Their binding commitment to self-seriousness and minimal irony, handled well, can accomplish moving stories grounded in psychological frankness, vulnerability and compassion.
It was at Radcliffe that these women first had the opportunity to meet other young women with the same commitment to goals and seriousness of purpose.
President Hockfield, what would be truly innovative, and demonstrate MIT's commitment to addressing the seriousness of our current and future energy crises, would be to bring our engineers and scientists together with their colleagues in the social sciences and the humanities to think beyond the laboratory.
We are left to wonder if this Sunday supplement still has a commitment to standards of seriousness and facticity.
This was a generation of thinkers and writers, including big names such as Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir and Raymond Aron, who combined deep moral seriousness with commitment to literature, politics and the real world.
Both show seriousness and commitment to the field that can often be lacking in scientists unsure of what they want to do away from the bench.
The steady diet of UFC shows (ranging from ESPN+ to UFC on ESPN and PPVs) has already established ESPN's seriousness and commitment to MMA.
Clara explored eastern religions for a few years, and then eventually became a Christian Scientist, although there is some question as to her seriousness and commitment to it.
