Sentence examples for seeming seriousness from inspiring English sources
Add to that the seeming seriousness of Republican Richard Burr, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who as of this week — and unlike the hapless Nunes — seems committed to getting honest answers, much as his fellow North Carolinian, Democrat Sam Ervin, sought when he chaired the Senate Watergate Committee.
When your correspondent was a young aeronautics student, an elderly professor once told him, in all seeming seriousness, that it was impossible for a bumblebee to fly.
The bill "is a politically cost-free way for Congress to send a signal of seeming seriousness about terrorism on the dawn of the 15th anniversary of 9/11," said Jack Goldsmith, a professor of law at Harvard who served in the Department of Justice under President George W. Bush.
Really, what is the point of speaking with seeming seriousness about moving beyond the drug war's ugly legacy of strong-arm solutions, only to turn around and flatly dismiss the notion of no longer criminalizing our friends and neighbors?
This was significant and, at the time, outrageous – in 1969, it must have seemed that seriousness had won out for good, with levity confined to novelty singles and bubblegum.
On the other hand, if the lesson of the Shoah and the second world war was that we must "participate, like it or not," then it would seem in seriousness that this cult of the Good War has continued to have dreadful consequences in our own day.
Ali kept announcing, with an artful-seeming seriousness, "I can't believe Dick Cavett came all the way to Pennsylvania just to see me!" Oddly, I can't recall for sure if I stayed overnight.
The establishment bid for seriousness seems to be to keep the field broad enough to encompass its credentialed but low-performing candidates.
Rossen aside, Newman fared better — especially in commercial terms — with sturdy middleweight talents such as Sidney Lumet, Martin Ritt and Richard Brooks in films where what the critic Andrew Sarris memorably described as "strained seriousness" seemed to suit Newman's own demeanour.
The nucleus of the 1948 exhibition was work by the three founders, but there were also contributions from Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), whose legendary seriousness seems far removed from Duchamp's fundamental humor.
The vice provincial, the Rev. James Heuser, apologized not just for the harm done by Father Nugent, but also for "the further pain you have experienced by our seeming failure to grasp the seriousness of your claims," which "only exacerbated the harm already caused you by Father Nugent himself".
