Sentence examples for decidedly serious from inspiring English sources

Folk art and furniture dominate the sale of Americana, which includes several whimsical weather vanes along with decidedly serious Chippendale chests and bookcases.

While the photos and headlines sound a note of whimsy, the text below the ads is decidedly serious, all of them noting, "The physical and emotional toll can be devastating".

It's also a driven, sometimes experimental, often wacky and decidedly serious examination of what stratospheric success means to African-Americans who find themselves with more options than they ever imagined, but also lonely at the top.

"That word — which appears, like a crude jack-in-the-box, in the last line of every stanza — is why the book works, both creatively and commercially," Schulz (who planted a few poppers in her own decidedly serious book, "Being Wrong") wrote.

[Excerpts are available at The New York Times on the Web: www.nytimes.com/international.] But the symbolic visit of the future monarch of Belgium is decidedly serious in a nation where the constitutional monarchy "is the only institution holding the country together," said Luc Sante, the Belgian-born writer who is a visiting professor at Bard College.

So even as you order a decidedly serious tipple, it arrives playfully adorned with, say, marzipan garnish baked on to the stemware.

A couple of Thursdays ago, Jamie Katz, a decidedly serious-minded south Florida private investigator specializing in finding missing animals, sat in her apartment fielding a steady stream of client calls, texts and Facebook messages after having just closed the case of an AWOL parrot.

Goldie Hawn gained fame as the ditzy blonde on Laugh-In, but she is decidedly more serious offscreen.

And in decidedly less serious news, rival N.F.L. front offices are exchanging secrets and innuendo ahead of next week's draft.

But the messages in Lebanon from the '70s to the early '90s were decidedly more serious than those in the United States.

The second half of the evening was decidedly more serious, with one sketch featuring Zied Hamada apologizing for his speech impediment to his dying mother.