Many of the songs on "Biophilia" strike me as hyper-serious, self-conscious twaddle; they don't even make me want to get up and dance.
The agenda was telegraphed in Kobe Bryant's eyes, which were fixed in a cold stare Monday night, and in a taut expression that varied between hyper-serious and hyper-focused.
The third and final presentation of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks festival at Here, "Civilization," directed by Seth Bockley, ineffectively mixes the surreal with the banal, the hyper-serious with the comic.
"Right out of the gate he's asking visitors not to walk through the show with a hyper-serious or intellectual mind-set that they might go into another show with," Ms. Carpenter said.
We always imagined Batman as the hyper-serious brooding type, not really one for leather jackets and extended cigarette breaks.
After getting Sifton to shout these rules at us (for our own good) they started building hyper-serious, LOLcat-reminiscent quotation images like the one below.
For more hyper-serious post-structuralist analysis of Joy Division and Ian Curtis, try summadis: Touching From a Disney: The Revenge of Ian Curtis.
They were a hyper-complex simulation, serious AI, full-on HAL action, OK?
The existential struggles of Ren (a moth-eaten Chihuahua whose hyper-nervous demeanor suggests a serious problem with methamphetamines) and Stimpy (a dopey, egg-shaped cat with an unnatural attachment to his litter box) proved to be too much for Nickelodeon, the cable channel that financed the show and then took it away from Mr. Kricfalusi's control.
Make sure to not stretch too far or else you may hyper-extend the tendon, causing serious pain (and possibly a medical emergency).
The hyper-careful General Medical Council recently highlighted how serious the situation has become with its unprecedented declaration of "a state of unease in the medical profession".
