Sentence examples for historical seriousness from inspiring English sources

Points of Entry: This Week's Recommendations THE GRINDING PERK Chronicle after chronicle insists on the historical seriousness of coffee — but can't resist a punning title.

With a fragmented plot that is less plausible than a Harry Potter movie, it combines the historical seriousness of Monty Python's Life of Brian with the deep emotional characterisation of the Wacky Races.

One counterfactualist who Evans likes is Dominic Sandbrook, whose "what if" columns in the New Statesman he finds acceptable precisely for their lack of historical seriousness – they are "parallel history", in which, say, Cromwell's son becomes king, and his descendants resemble George IV and the Milibands.

Clinicians appear to decide moves based on combinations of current and imminent (dynamic) risk measured by HCR-20 dynamic score and historical seriousness of risk as measured by need for therapeutic security (DUNDRUM-1) in keeping with Scott's formulation of risk and seriousness.

This Nabokovian jauntiness co-exists uneasily with the world-historical seriousness Amis adopted from Saul Bellow that, when combined with a patchy knowledge of world history and some primordial anxiety about cultural otherness, results in some pretty incoherent political postures.

Quentin Tarantino may take the low road (trashy vitality, pastiche of already disreputable genres) and Steven Spielberg the high road – moral seriousness, historical scruple – but they have both arrived in the same territory this year, the subject of slavery in American history.

Operas of a slightly earlier period that featured real-life characters from the recent past — like Philip Glass's "Satyagraha" (1980) and John Adams's "Nixon in China" (1987) and "Death of Klinghoffer" (1991) — had chosen subjects of historical importance and seriousness.

Its moral seriousness and historical conscience make it much harder to encounter than "Django Unchained," which looks, by comparison, like a terrible comic book.

Calder took everything seriously except seriousness.

Although they are hardly unknown, seeing them in quantity brings out the perseverance, seriousness and art-historical savvy behind their whimsy.

But Mr. Tucker, he said, marshaled "a seriousness of purpose, an historical insight and a scrupulousness of method" to regard Stalin as a malleable human being shaped by a childhood so harsh that he created, as a defense, an inflated self-image.