Sentence examples for essentially serious from inspiring English sources

War crimes are essentially serious violations of IHL committed by individuals with criminal intent.

In this sense, U.O. is, for all its evident silliness, essentially serious: a game with inherent moral complexity.

It's an essentially serious, sometimes dark movie about infidelity, friendship, and male madness, dotted with patches of broad physical comedy and some spectacular Vince Vaughn riffs.

His second novel is a glorious rigmarole of satire, insanity, genre tropes and aching romantic pain, but never doubt that it is an essentially serious book.

But the second wife of this essentially serious man – whose first wife was Mary Slattery – was the great sexual icon of the twentieth century.

While Sci Fi's series run the gamut from essentially serious ("Farscape" and "First Wave") to decidedly wacky ("The Chronicle" and "Lexx"), it's clear that the network is not afraid to let the shows make fun of themselves anytime they want.

There is a growing, though not unanimous, feeling in liberal policy circles that remaking the nation's entire foreign policy around terrorism is an overreaction to what is, essentially, a serious but manageable threat.

Of course, there was a touch of score-settling and the occasional attempt to start a feud with another hack - but it was essentially a serious, if entertaining, analysis of newspapers read by many, many millions; intelligent, yet hopefully fun for the viewer.

She said her novel was "essentially quite a serious one".

It's essentially heartfelt and serious in its intentions — unlike too many of the men she falls for.

Brown enjoys the odd quip, and talking about all kinds of sport, but he is essentially a very serious man.