Sentence examples for lacking in seriousness from inspiring English sources

Respondents can be lacking in seriousness, unsure what they believe, and evasive.

I am not sure quite what to make of this shift, and have an uncomfortable feeling that it is an aesthetic error, and a tacit concession that the animation techniques used until that moment are lacking in seriousness: once the tragedy is directly broached, they must be abandoned.

Britain's foreign policy was already muddled, mercantile, hypocritical and lacking in seriousness.

These contradictions and interactions are not lacking in seriousness and are not just a diplomatic ploy.

He denied the term "farce" was derogatory, or even lacking in seriousness, and said "It is of nonsense all compact, and better nonsense, I think, our stage has not seen".

When you choose to write full-time, this can be stymied if someone close to you is not happy about your choice or considers it to be indulgent or lacking in seriousness.

What today's marathon lacks in seriousness of purpose, they say, it makes up in unabashed fun.

The sensuality of much of his work made him slightly suspect, as did the feeling by critics that so readily appealing a style must somehow be lacking in underlying seriousness.

My joke uses humor to "criticize others and veil an attack," "delivers sarcasm or cynicism" and "may be perceived as immature or lacking in appropriate seriousness".

But this plan is so lacking in fundamental seriousness that it cannot be said to play any part of a mature exchange of ideas.

Even the name, Lite, is a contemporary addition to the language, suggesting not only that something has fewer calories but that it may also be, as Webster's has it, "diminished or lacking in substance or seriousness".