Sentence examples for over seriousness from inspiring English sources

Suffering from vulgarized public taste, a lack of originality, and a preference for spectacle over seriousness, nearly all of the Roman plays were imitations or loose translations of Greek dramas, even to the extent of their being performed in Greek costume.

This is great news, because Killing Eve's is a story which could very easily fall into silly over-seriousness if handled incorrectly.

This was the Replacements at the peak of their powers, rebelliously thwarting expectations, simultaneously satirizing the ironic over-seriousness of "SNL" and mocking the second-rate-ness of their own name.

But what won me over was his seriousness about it.

There has been plenty of controversy with this story, and as a result, some people are divided over his talent as a designer and over the seriousness of his alleged behaviour.

If he was mulling over the seriousness of the possible consequences, he hid it fairly well.

There was some confusion over the seriousness of the terror threat that led to the temporary evacuation and closure of the stations.

In order to achieve that overriding strategic end, the BBC had to avoid going into denial over the seriousness of the charges it faced.

At the sprawling Komarovsky Market here, Mr. Lukashenko's efforts to gloss over the seriousness of the country's economic problems have done little to allay concerns among some food sellers.

It has constituted the calamitous triumph of American hypocrisy & cant over American seriousness... What Vietnam has accomplished is brutally to teach Americans that America's is not "the flag of all mankind," as Woodrow Wilson saw it.

Though he lingered over the seriousness of the financial crisis enveloping the country, the Fed chairman buoyed investors by stating his resistance to any nationalization of the big banks.