Sentence examples for more serious direction from inspiring English sources

If anything, the more serious direction expanded the audience, said its star, Sarah Jessica Parker.

The comedy may have generated fewer hearty laughs this season as its cast confronted issues like unwanted pregnancy and cancer, but the more serious direction expanded the audience, said its star, Sarah Jessica Parker.

The two men who took over CBS News early this year — the "60 Minutes" producer Jeff Fager, who is chairman, and the former Fox News executive David Rhodes, who is president — have steered the news division in a more serious direction.

This chatter starts out as a funny sideshow, but gradually Mr. Bishop takes it in a more serious direction and gives it an unexpected focus: Wyatt is a soldier, and "Still the River Runs" turns out to be one of the stranger antiwar plays around.

Olson will join the ranks of Clay Bavor, who has been fiddling with VR under the Google umbrella since 2013, officially becoming the head of that department in early 2016, as the company looked to shift the department in a more serious direction following the release of Cardboard.

Does Wilder believe his wife's death propelled his career in its new, more serious direction?

In 2009, Twitter changed its home-page greeting from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?" This shift, which Evan Williams has said that he instigated, was part of an effort to push Twitter in a more topical, serious direction.

Certain composers, most notably George Gershwin, with the satires "Of Thee I Sing" and "Let 'Em Eat Cake" and the opera "Porgy and Bess," pushed the form in more serious and experimental directions.

He pushed the New York film avant-garde in ever more serious and less accessible directions.

A more serious drawback is that the direction of drama departments and of university theatres is often entrusted to theatrical professionals who, in order to fulfill teaching obligations, often cannot devote much time and energy to the theatre.

But George Bush's US farm bill (pumping $180bn of new subsidies into US agriculture over the next 10 years) is an even more serious step in the wrong direction - and yet another example of the kind of redneck unilateralism that is persuading more and more people of the status of the US as the number one rogue state.