Sentence examples for politically serious from inspiring English sources

His ideas have also occasionally been seen as not politically serious, or as non-political in the sense of not being capable of challenging existing power structures.

It wasn't the reaction of a morally or politically serious nation.

After about 20 minutes it was all over: all charming, all forgettable and all about as politically serious as popcorn.

"They were told the opera was not politically serious enough," a member of the production team said, speaking on the condition of anonymity, as did others involved, because of the delicacy of the situation.

Before the premiere, The New York Times reported that Opera Hong Kong, which commissioned and produced "Dr. Sun Yat-sen," was told that the opera was not politically serious enough.

In antiquity, starting with Aristotle, Plato's Republic was recognized as part of a large genre of politically serious works, many of them inspired by Sparta, and Socrates' explicit claims about the ideal and defective constitutions were taken seriously as political proposals.

Anthony Painter at LabourList says the Balls speech was "politically astute, serious and plausible".

The paper's findings are "environmentally and politically quite serious," Robert Watson, a former NASA scientist who organized bracing flights high into the Antarctic stratosphere to study ozone depletion in the 1980s, said in an emailed statement.

The Syria drawdown positions Russia well politically as a serious state in search of a political resolution.

He's a serious, politically brave and thoughtful north London intellectual.

"This year's pictures are unrelentingly grim and serious, politically charged," said Bruce Vilanch, one of the show's comedy writers.