Sentence examples for serious and dramatic from inspiring English sources

"All my films are based on very serious and dramatic subjects, taken from real-life stories," he once said.

One involved a town in Florida where, some fifty years ago, the residents began to hobble themselves in serious and dramatic ways — all in order to collect really cushy disability payments.

A reform of this kind would be tweaking the edges of a system that needs a serious and dramatic overhaul – and potentially entering into a political fracas that could be very damaging.

Sometimes they are comic turns (like the aborted "escape" of Lord Berrybender's Spanish gunsmith and Italian carriage maker, both broadly drawn Mediterranean types), but more often they are serious and dramatic.

The "Scottish" Symphony (No. 3 in the unchronological standard sequence), he said, is often played in a "harmless" manner, which "is a great mistake, as it's a very serious and dramatic piece".

Paull, who wrote her first novel aged seven but set it aside after her family described it as "'sweet' - I thought 'no, it's really serious and dramatic'" - said that it was "extremely exciting but quite strange" to find herself on the Baileys shortlist.

In the end, it's hard to know what to make of Mr. Belton's intent; most of all, the show, which concludes with an overly serious and unwarranted dramatic twist on the film, feels irrelevant.

The actress also noted that Harmony was generally used for comic relief, whereas Lucy was intended to be "serious and more dramatic".

Other highlights: the ragga-tinged "Off the Roadside," the sedate and serious "Dramatic Eyes," the rough-riding growler (and ironically titled) "Crystal Clean," and the closing track "Spiritual Synergy," featuring the vocals of another drum & bass veteran, Jo-S.

Theda Bara's semi-undressed "vamp" movies were cut, and serious dramatic films about adultery were banned, along with trivial nudie films aimed at big-city male audiences.

The film is the earliest animated documentary and serious, dramatic work of animation to survive.