Sentence examples for is serious without from inspiring English sources

In Russia, it will be impossible to have democratic change that is serious without a developed market economy.

Never solemn or pompous, West is serious without taking himself seriously It's as if he has nothing to prove either to himself or to us.

"The Skin I Live In" is a textbook of expository technique, but it's all craft and shine; it is the least enjoyable of Almodóvar's films, a movie that is serious without being intelligent.

(Isherwood) 'The Book of Everything' (closes on Sunday) This accomplished production, an Australian import directed by Neil Armfield ("Exit the King") for children 10 and up, is serious without being ponderous.

"Rush," which is serious without being self-serious, fun without being trivial, feels like the movie that he has been waiting to make his whole life — it's no wonder that he climbs into the cockpits with the camera again and again.

(An earlier attempt by Gade in 1839 did not get beyond a first movement of sheer loveliness – and that is also included on this disc). Mature Gade at his best, the Piano Trio is serious without being dense; light but not lightweight; central-European romantic in idiom… and in a way as if an original, ideal Brahms-Mendelssohn hybrid had been assembled.

It's serious without seeming to be. . . .

Ryan's answer was serious without being comprehensive.

The desserts are serious without taking themselves too seriously.

And it is good to be reminded that movies can be serious without being grim.

I tried to think of how to convey that I was serious without being obnoxious.