Sentence examples for profound seriousness from inspiring English sources
Ned seemed to reveal a more profound seriousness beneath the glittering surface of his charm, his wit.
In this work the calm, reposing position of her body stands in contrast to her delicately raised head, enchanting the viewer with the tenderness of her countenance and the profound seriousness, almost sadness, of her glance.
But the control, the mastery of half-tones, and the profound seriousness of her playing of Schubert's chords, especially memorable in The Inn, was music-making of the highest order.
"He has a positive genius for conceiving and executing scholarly projects of immense scope and profound seriousness," Norman Corwin, a veteran director and creator of radio dramas during the medium's golden age in the 1930s and 1940s, wrote in the introduction to Mr. Rasovsky's 2006 book, "The Well-tempered Audio Dramatist".
Yet all sensual properties are treated with profound seriousness in Peter Strickland's lithely kinky The Duke of Burgundy (Artificial Eye, 18), a film that constructs an erotic universe so heady, so immersively airtight, that it may as well be giving off olfactory cues.
Such profound seriousness bemuses James Manclark, who revived the obscure sport of elephant polo (first played by sun- addled British aristocrats in India).
This combination of hyperactivity and profound artistic seriousness has been Morris's trademark ever since his first dances - violently emotional, unsettlingly transgressive and astonishingly beautiful - hit the stage.
How did all that simpering chat and gossip turn into a work of profound moral seriousness, providing us with the best account we will ever have of why love feels like a sickness and what was actually at stake in the Dreyfus affair?
At one moment he would speak with the most profound and elegant seriousness, and at the next he would recall that we were college girls and had to have the "world" of each writer defined for the sake of memorizing.
The individual acted with lightning-quickness in accord with accurate judgment of his situation" and exhibited an absence of "paralyzing fright of the sort that can happen in instances of lesser danger"; instead, he felt "calm seriousness, profound acceptance, and a dominant mental quickness and a sense of surety".
New York exhibitors, though, tried to exploit the film's notoriety by opening "Stromboli" on 120 screens, plainly hoping to cash in before the word got out that the film was, in fact, a work of great ethical seriousness and profound religious feeling — or, as Bosley Crowther, the Times's chief film critic described it, "incredibly feeble, inarticulate, uninspiring and painfully banal".
