For example, there is an association between the labels used to describe acute respiratory infections by general practitioners (GPs) and their rates of prescribing antibiotics: high prescribers were associated with labels that implied greater seriousness of the condition [ 1].
Well, at least there's a certain discipline and seriousness implied in holding the pen upright, ridiculous as it might seem as a cure for every problem.
(RC) The audacity of this painting is what first strikes you, the confidence in its own seriousness implied not just by its Latin title - which means Man, Heroic and Sublime - but its vast scale, nearly 5.5m wide.
Eastwood keeps the tone buoyant and hardly lets the violence of the Mob milieu spill over into the action (there's only one scene in which he doesn't spare the red sauce), but the ambient bruising of tough customers and the earnest threats of well-dressed, well-coiffed crime bosses don't need a rain of gore to conjure the mortal seriousness that's implied in the story.
The decline of elitist seriousness was inevitable, Menand implied, and this decline is nothing terrible.
Just as the inclusion of burglary and murder in felonies does not imply an equivalence of seriousness, so the inclusion of female ordination and child abuse in grave sin does not imply equivalence.
For a start, in that time football has all but ceased to be a game at all, and has become a global business (or worse, "a product", "an export") with all the high seriousness that implies.
The dramatic and emphatic effects of the WAR metaphor as well as the seriousness it implies are clearly advantageous for the construction and representation of the CCP's viewpoint and stance on corruption in front of an international audience, and for persuading that audience.
Heine's fantasy skilfully recyles two German stereotypes about Italian opera: about its lack of seriousness – he calls it "merry playfulness" – and about the readiness of Italian composers (unlike, it is implied, earnest German ones) to please at all costs, to be endlessly waiting for a new commission or for audience applause to call them on stage.
Implied in this sort of structuring of sacred space is a correlative phenomenology: one which requires of the devotee an appropriate seriousness and focussed attention, if they are to grasp aright the sacred reality that is to be encountered in the sanctuary (compare Jones 2000 on the various strategies of "ritual-architectural allurement").
