Sentence examples for more serious theme from inspiring English sources

On a more serious theme, there's The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream by Katharine Norbury.

But it also gave him a more serious theme for his fiction.

She told him he had best find a more serious theme and rewrite his paper if he wanted to receive a better grade.

By contrast, "dramedies" such as "Chuck" and "Ugly Betty" fuse comedy with more serious themes and are an hour long.

Falstaff, however, dies offstage, perhaps because Shakespeare felt his boisterous presence would detract from the more serious themes of the play.

In The Octopus and other novels he strove to return American fiction, which was then dominated by historical romance, to more serious themes.

An amazingly prolific author, who gradually took on more serious themes as he matured, Harrison is probably best known for the book that inspired the Hollywood film Soylent Green (1973).

Like the pilgrim's burden of sin, the Tombstone brings guilt and self-questioning: under the congenial wisecracks, this contemporary odyssey has more serious themes afoot, complete with a Chaucerian and even Homeric tendency to itemise and list – particularly each night's takings, collected in a walking sock.

It's tempting to claim it's a daring adaptation of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck and leave them to deal with the fallout, but in among all the likable postmodern silliness, the tools to explore more serious themes have been hidden.

Foulds has a certain amount of fun writing against the genre expectations of gangster fiction, but he also works through some of the more serious themes that underpinned The Broken Word in terms of violence and trauma, "and the chaotic weather systems of great events that sweep people up, and how you then put the world back together, or at least start to, after those experiences".

Soon, Lichtenstein advanced from animated cartoons to more serious themes such as romance and combat depictions.