Sentence examples for essential seriousness from inspiring English sources

Parini captures the melancholy comedy of it all, but also Tolstoy's big-heartedness and essential seriousness.

Beneath his equally playful exterior, Mozart hid an essential seriousness Da Ponte lacked.

Though the tone of his books is wonderfully mischievous, their essential seriousness is beyond question.

But even his tortured, sleazy nature betrayed some essential seriousness about the fate of the United States.

He possessed an essential seriousness that made him a leader of what some had begun to call "counter-couture".

The movie's essential seriousness, its brave ambition and the dedication of its cast have grown more impressive with time.

It's the essential un-seriousness of the seriously narcissistic, the Dunning-Kruger effect of second-class minds who live in a reality that keeps telling them they are the first class.

This atmosphere of seriousness, essential to such yarns, is brillantly captured in The Fabled Coast by the neutral, matter-of-fact manner of the telling.

This appetite for extremes is essential to understanding the seriousness of his thinking about culture.

A presidential speech will then be essential to dramatize the seriousness of our purpose and to lay out the principles.

To English eyes, Hall's ironic accounts of bureaucratic fumblings - a sort of real-life Catch-22 - only enhance his essential dedication to the seriousness of the task of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA.