Speakers noted with wonder the sprawl and scope of the congress, the energy and seriousness of those attending, and the sheer diversity of expressions of faith.
Voters who watched the first debate might have been left with an impression that Mr. Romney was the candidate of ideas and that Mr. Obama's reserves of energy and seriousness had been tapped out.
I spoke to them of their experience to date and was taken by their passion, energy and seriousness.
But regardless what side of the dispute you're on, it's worth appreciating the vibrancy, energy, and seriousness with which progressives are engaging in the debate, as compared to the incoherent, ridiculous, and dull qualities our friends on the right have brought to the table.
If he had some of the Victorian vices, he had almost all the Victorian virtues: energy, drive, moral seriousness, and a limitless self-confidence.
That year she introduced Boris Blacher's solo sonata to Britain – the Times thought her playing "characterised by seriousness, energy, and warm yet finely drawn tone" – and in 1955 she acquired the 1734 "Willemotte" Stradivarius.
He can take you from a moment like that all rangy comedic looks from gray-mustached Bridges and the waitress Margaret Bowman to an action sequence suffused with the kinetic energy and moral seriousness of vintage Michael Mann and Akira Kurosawa.
The contrapuntal insights of that system are already evident in "Ferdydurke"; they give it both its subversive energy and its penetrating seriousness.
But one commissioner, Nora Brownell, said it was important that all energy traders recognize the seriousness of the commission's investigation into market manipulation in California during the 2000-01 power crisis.
Students knew we were prowling for transgressors, understanding the energy invested equaled the seriousness of deviance.
