Sentence examples for more serious notion from inspiring English sources

People who might previously have viewed sports as little more than extracurricular activities are buying into the more serious notion of sports as a metaphor for success.

The image, a try-this-on-for-thighs comparison between one German cyclist nicknamed Gorilla Andre Greipell) and another nicknamed Mr. Thigh (Robert Förstemann), underscored a more serious notion.

Yet for all the "Wait, are they actually gay?" gags, the show is admirably committed to something more serious: the notion of Sherlock/Watson as both True Detective and True Romance.

Silverstein's instant rebuilding plan came to be seen as a publicity grab more than a serious notion, and he soon realized that he had no power to set a timetable.

But behind that appeal is a more serious concern: the notion of news as "infotainment," as Mr. Rouse put it, "which is CNN orchestrating the news — how the minute there's a Katrina or something, they have a theme song for it".

The act does appear to be a roadblock for some companies; nevertheless, another barrier that I think is as serious, or perhaps even more serious, is that the notion of buying a growing company at a relatively high P/E ratio has been so disgraced in the aftermath of 2000 that it's very hard for companies of that type to come public and garner the respect of the investment community.

Kickball's popularity, he says, reflects the tension between poetic ideas of childhood and the notion of a more serious adult self.

At one point, backstage, I felt I was seeing a comparably real-life illustration of the Williams first-person principle — the notion that her more serious fans engage with her music on a deeper, weirder level than they might with other songwriters' songs, because Lucinda's are believed to be so autobiographical.

But he disputed the notion that ABC had benefited from a more serious approach.

But the notion that you have to somehow become a more serious you (or more or less anything, for that matter) has largely dissipated -- and good riddance.

These findings strongly supported the notion that early developmental exposure causes a much more serious disease in children than in individuals exposed as adults.