Sentence examples for compelling seriousness from inspiring English sources

As Diaz weighs up the dilemma with her husband, James Marsden, a Nasa research scientist, Kelly treats the situation with compelling seriousness.

Miss Goldberg, who said while bidding by telephone "I'm so nervous," includes in one of her monologues a visit to the home of Anne Frank in which she muses with compelling seriousness on various kinds of inhumanity.

Mustering a budget that is presumably a miniscule fraction of what any full-time company commands, Mr. La Selva and his colleagues — here including Roberto Stivanello, the stage director and lighting designer — put on performances that have a compelling seriousness and dignity despite scrappy means.

Eliza Taylor brought earnest, compelling seriousness to the role of Clarke, and Bob Morley, who plays her co-leader and sometimes rival Bellamy, is one of the most charismatic and promising young actors on TV.

Leviathan is a tragic drama, compelling in its moral seriousness, with a severity and force that escalate into a terrible, annihilating sort of grandeur.

Calder took everything seriously except seriousness.

Tulli strings together stories with an inscrutable but compelling logic, and narrates with total seriousness events that might otherwise seem precious.

There are lots of artists, says Searle, "who, furrowing their brows and trying to convince us of their seriousness, aren't half as profound or compelling".

There are lots of artists who, furrowing their brows and trying to convince us of their seriousness, aren't half as profound or compelling (I can provide a list, on receipt of a postal order).

Kodwo Eshun, the group's most compelling commentator, writes that they "projected a stance of high seriousness with seductive stylishness".

The distorted blues of We're Gonna Boogie leaves you reeling with shock: firstly that someone in 2006 has, in all seriousness, called a song We're Gonna Boogie, secondly that the end result is compelling rather than laughable.