Sentence examples for overtly serious from inspiring English sources

The more overtly serious Ellis Wood will present a thought-provoking look at the ways women are denied pleasure in her recent "Funktionslust," set to music by Daniel Bernard Roumain.

PopMatters' Josh Timmermann was very critical of the overtly serious tone of the record compared to the lighthearted work the band had done before, joking that the title of "Cheer Up, Boys" "sounds like the suggestion of a concerned fan for a band he or she used to actually care about".

Chambers also notes the emergence of a new generation of black British artists including Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare, who treat issues around race and ethnicity more playfully than their immediate forebears, arguing that their rise marked a moment when audiences had lost interest in an overtly serious approach to identity politics.

There is much to laugh at – the "I am an imbecile" helium balloons, the back-of-your-head caricature artist – but a big chunk of it is deadly serious and overtly political.

Directors who produce unauthorized films that overtly challenge the government can face temporary work bans or more serious harassment.

Despite concluding that it was "sexually suggestive," the ASA decided to rule against banning the ad, saying in an assessment that "they were not overtly sexual and unlikely to cause serious or widespread offense".

Diane Redfern, who owns the Connecting service, said she generally discarded about 95percentt of the travel companion ads submitted, "either because they don't leave enough information for serious travelers or they're overtly sexual," she said.

Dembski claims that such arguments are not merely beyond the purview of science: often they are tacitly or overtly theological while failing to provide a serious analysis of the hypothetical objective's relative merit.

"If Russia moves into eastern Ukraine, either overtly or covertly, this would be a very serious escalation.

NADA was also exceptional this year, the work on display was serious and not flashy, or geared towards sales as overtly as say the work in Art Miami.

While not overtly malicious, it is potentially misleading and dangerous.