Sentence examples for great serious from inspiring English sources

But you can't live without great, serious cheese".

He's a great, serious chef, but television obliges him to come across as this hard man who swears.

He has also produced myriad miniatures, as if shaking off the role — which Stravinsky, among others, bestowed upon him — of being the Great Serious American Composer.

As anybody who has been on that campus for some weekday experience other than football can tell, Notre Dame is a great, serious academic institution.

So is Jonah Hill really a great serious actor or is he merely the most entertaining part of a serious film?

From its founding as "a great serious publication wherein shall be reflected the calm thought of the best men," The Virginia Quarterly Review has kept its offices on the stately grounds of the university.

"He was one of those musicians that you couldn't categorize -- one of the greatest serious classical composers that lived, yet one of the most successful on Broadway.

Philip Gossett, the reigning expert on 19th-century Italian opera and the general editor of the new critical edition of Rossini's stage works, goes even further, calling the piece "one of the greatest serious operas written during the 19th century".

Yes, the music can be great and serious; but greatness and seriousness are not its defining characteristics.

A great many serious and funny things go on simultaneously in these depictions of the complex relationships of familiar characters.

There are, however, great and serious films that require something of the same willing giving over of moment-to-moment consciousness from the viewer to the filmmaker.