Sentence examples for over serious from inspiring English sources
He claimed the departures were over "serious misconduct".
It's an equally scary portrait of the community – devout to the point that religion becomes a cover to throw over serious evil and pretend it's not happening.
Before that, campaigners were anxious to put over serious concerns for hard cases: the over-burdened mother of six or the rape victim.
A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights noted the office's "severe concerns" over "serious due process irregularities" in the trials.
commitments, leading an elite that has long favored protectionism and subsidy over serious reform.
Democratic lawmakers quickly accused Mr. Bush of glossing over serious economic problems.
Mr. Costolo certainly doesn't come across as a strident, over-serious executive.
His own over-serious musicals show how hard joy and frivolity are to make.
"But it is not earnest and over-serious and preachy, it is incandescent and disruptive.
She sometimes seemed over-serious, but was capable of delivering wicked shafts of humour from the corner of her mouth.
When they met, poetry was suffering from a hangover induced by the bad habits of the 1940s, namely a stiff, over-serious, academic manner.
