Sentence examples for modicum of seriousness from inspiring English sources

Yet at least they have demonstrated a modicum of seriousness about the job.

There were audible guffaws of the "ooooooh... burn" variety off-camera, and Cruz was visibly upset by the charge, leading to an embarrassing and comical "oh I speak Spanish pandejo" retort in the native tongue that was largely laughed off by Rubio, and likely any member of the electorate paying attention to the debate and expecting a modicum of seriousness.

Fashionable, but with a hint of seriousness.

There were also flashes of seriousness.

It breaks the tone of seriousness.

The fear of seriousness, and the assumption that seriousness is necessarily humourless, has to be overcome.

That shows a definite degree of seriousness.

But we shared a bond of seriousness.

He wasn't incapable of seriousness, though.

Only the slimmest pretense of seriousness".

Establishing that modicum of trust took years.