Despite the jokes and the fun, the intent is deadly serious, said Smith: the aim is to debate issues such as the absence of arts subjects for 16-year-olds in the Ebacc; the state of art schools; and the cuts in public spending to the arts.
With numerous night-spot closures and near-misses, it increasingly seems that London's nightlife is being run by a cabal of fun-police intent on ruining your vibe.
And such a wickedly giddy adventure it has already been: surmounting all the nasty, annoying, fun-loathing forces intent on inhibiting carefree event-hopping and the happy roar of champagne bubbles.
Tag is a fun game with serious intent -- we are lifting up individuals who are changing the world, recognizing them by "tagging them" and encouraging those that are on the sidelines of change to join in the game.
Although it only recently joined the party, Volvo seems intent on having fun.
Not that it mattered, I suppose, because everyone seemed more intent on having fun than winning or losing.
Despite the song's serious themes, Mr. Stills said he was intent on having fun with it.
Although everyone may be intent on having fun and relaxing, things inevitably happen to interfere with that goal.
A girl this intent on randy fun was a girl who couldn't be trusted and got what was coming to her, even if it was prison and even if there was plenty of reason — as the eventual reversal of her initial conviction made clear — to believe that she might not belong there.
Finally, for fun, though with slyly serious intent as well, Glimmerglass presented a lively yet quite traditional production of "The Music Man," directed and choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, but with a twist: River City, Iowa, in the early 20th century, where the story takes place, was presented as a racially mixed community.
