Sentence examples for forms of seriousness from inspiring English sources

"Smarm is a kind of performance," Scocca writes, "an assumption of the forms of seriousness, of virtue, of constructiveness, without the substance.

And yet Mr. Wright also, in some ways, plays it safe, steering clear of anything too ugly or shocking as he keeps all forms of seriousness at bay.

Living arrangements at Hotel de Castille; review of Paul Claudel's play "Le Soulier de Satin," News of Kennedy's assassination; other news from home violence, student riots, etc. denoting rebellion against all forms of seriousness and superiority- the beatnicks represent it in literature, the Abstract and Pop painters in art, and you have it music in such exploits as those of John Cage.

It then gets bumped into obsolescence by a pendulum swing toward a cheekier form of seriousness — what Siegel calls, in one of his frequent fits of ungainliness, "ironic anti-serious seriousness".

He's neither ironic nor self-deprecating; he dislikes that part of our derisive culture which undercuts, as a ritual form of defense, any kind of seriousness.

On Tuesday, Brown went on "Good Morning America," and in the form of bland seriousness the weird fun of the experiment reached its end.

It is a large part of Lane's greatness as a film reviewer - yes, greatness - that he sets this popular art form at exactly the right level of seriousness.

There's sort of this extra level of seriousness".

"Nowhere else does one have this passion in questions of form, this seriousness in mise en scène which is Parisian seriousness par excellence".

When frivolity did arrive, in the form of three trios, seriousness went completely out the window.

We wouldn't belittle the seriousness of other forms of bigotry, or seek to deflect from it.