Sentence examples for like seriousness from inspiring English sources

Like seriousness, for instance".

"I had a line in the book I cut that said 'The nirvana would be if the questions raised by Oprah Winfrey would be answered by the faculty at Harvard.' The questions she asks are the most central – how do we live with other people, how do we cope with our ambitions, how do we survive as a society – though she fails to answer them with anything like seriousness".

But what's actually maddening in this objectively insignificant event is that it highlights the toxic fatuity of concepts like "seriousness" and "toughness" when they're wrenched out of context and sapped of meaning.

Myers's characters are perhaps best remembered for their exclamatory catchphrases—"Party on!" "No way!" "Not!" "Yeah, baby!" "Oh, behave!"—yet, as with the role of Maitland, he brought to their creation and performance an auteur-like seriousness.

They had ethical debates, which we didn't have in the U.K. I liked the seriousness of the U.S. press".

I liked their seriousness — too many of the other leads were performing with displays of gracious charm better suited to a garden party — and their jumps were often breathtaking.

Greenpeace's executive director, John Sauven, said: "Tacking climate change on to the end of the communique as an after thought does not demonstrate anything like the seriousness we needed to see.

"Don't make this into an after-school special," St. James pleads at one point, but of course he, and the movie, want it both ways: to sit in sober judgment of the consequences of excess while sustaining a pose of cynical aloofness from anything like ethical seriousness.

By contrast, most conservatives today are just mouthing slogans they do not understand, and there is nothing like the seriousness in what passes for conservative research and analysis these days to what underlay Reagan's policies.

Congress is too tied up with the stimulus package to take on this latter responsibility with anything like the seriousness it deserves.

There was, however, nothing child-like about the seriousness and certainty of its contents.