Her face and head make the same intensely dramatic display of seriousness that also radiates in the way she holds a grandly arching line through her spine and arms, and in the way she then holds this bleak pose, while turning her face to address the stage light.
The problem is not artistic genre but seriousness of dramatic conception.
Maceri said he sees an aging population in his treatment and housing programs, with dramatic rises in the seriousness of disease, with the vast majority dealing with mental and physical ailments, addiction, or all three.
Calder took everything seriously except seriousness.
The EMK Prize has potential for contributing to an elevation of the standards of scrupulousness, intellectual rigor and seriousness within which dramatic literature is approached by theater artists, audiences, educators, students and critics.
He is remembered for his wit and perverse yet lovable personality, the sparkle and fundamental seriousness of his dramatic criticism, and his racy, entertaining diary, called, characteristically, Ego, 9 vol. (1932 47).
"But I can't!" I paused to let a few sobs escape and switched from my dramatic lament to a somber seriousness.
That's because, by way of hyperbolic drama, he's looking at matters of gender and, for that matter, of surgical transformation, with a sincere seriousness and a large dramatic question-mark of soulful mystery.
Richard Brody wrote that, in this film, Almodóvar "seems both to be stretching his talent into new realms and to be delighting in the paradoxes of sober and sophisticated scientific study converging to a stepwise madness" and added that he approaches his subject "with a sincere seriousness and a large dramatic question-mark of soulful mystery".
