Ms. Drattell's score, though serious, vividly colored and, at times, alluring, is musically thin and overly reliant on churning riffs and Hebraic-tinged chantlike melodic writing.
Controversy also drew attention to the artist's huge anodyne stock-in-trade, chiefly landscapes, which catered to many tastes — as he instructed an agent, "highly colored, serious paintings for Vienna, pleasant subjects for London".
Pachinko, with its orgy of colors, lights and sounds, is the perfect marriage of arcade and casino and while Japanese law strictly prohibits gambling, playing this game can turn your coins into some serious bucks (or colored pencils).
In addition to the bridal bling, colored gemstones are making serious inroads in the fashion jewelry market, like anniversary rings, stud earrings, pendants, bracelets, etc.
But where "Miami Vice" was candy-colored, jokey and desperately up to the minute, "Crime Story" was dark, deadly serious and set in the past.
Salads suit the taste of serious salad-ordering types -- lightly dressed, brightly colored and accented with nothing fancier than a sprinkling of salty feta and a kalamata olive.
Her nuke look is feminine, in a tailored camel-colored jacket and gold necklace, yet serious, in Tina Fey black reading glasses.
Mr. François's crude but sensual black-and-white brush drawings and starkly colored paintings, employing surreal and ironic juxtapositions, introduced serious whimsy to conservative commercial art.
Although the wisdom of enlisting colored troops was still untested and was a "serious offense" to popular prejudice, the president argued, colored troops "had larger motives for being soldiers than white men" and "ought to be willing to enter the service upon any condition".
But selling colored keyboard wrappers never looked like a hugely serious business model for an app with hundreds of millions of productivity-loving users.
