Sentence examples for largely serious from inspiring English sources

Centered lighting, dim interiors, and often flat, matte skies all contribute to the sense that the character portrayed is important, and the scene largely serious.

White's book, written with Gordon Dillow, is largely serious in tone — except when it recounts his 18 years working with Rizzuto, who frequently abandoned orthodox play-calling for absurd riffs about Italian pastries, his wife, Scooter Jr. and birthdays.

In contrast to serious opera, comic opera had always dealt with subjects from real life, and it now became the framework for works that were largely serious in intention.

And if you accept that the Olympics are a serious and largely sober sporting competition, then how can a sport that involves women with pegs on their noses dancing under water to the theme from Flubber get waved in while a sport that has a 200-year history and which is played in an estimated 185 countries gets told "sorry pal, your name's not down, you can't come in"?

It is otherwise a place largely without serious crime.

Because Farhadi's films rarely address political themes directly, he largely avoided serious conflicts with the Iranian government.

Purges and trials have punished former civilian officials, but security officers responsible for decades of abuse have largely escaped serious censure.

Writing for The Independent, FF, a member of the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee until 2013, points out that despite a plethora of major misdemeanours uncovered at UK banks in recent years, senior executives at these institutions have largely escaped serious punishment.

Juventus was demoted a division, others largely escaped serious penalty, and A.C. Milan even won that year's Champions League final, despite an effort by Lennart Johansson, then the president of UEFA, to bar the team from the competition.

Still, others have noted that with the exception of a mention by Mr. Russert in Tuesday's debate, Mrs. Clinton has largely escaped serious journalistic vetting over matters like when or whether her campaign will release her tax returns or her calendar from her years as first lady, or detail the origins of the $5 million she has contributed to her own campaign.

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