Sentence examples for serious concept from inspiring English sources

Readers have to wait until page 65 before reaching the first serious concept, standard deviation, which feels too late.

"I would run a million miles before engaging in conversation with someone that thinks 'lady trouble' is a serious concept or reasonable description - it's a real language turn-off, possibly replicated in the guy himself," says Clare Smedley.

With a British art-school education and a club kid's ear for the visceral, M.I.A. has both a serious concept — packing underclass manifestos into dance tunes — and enough flair to make her songs jump out of speakers as party music first and last.

This respect for the power of nine led to many social listings of nine, often charged with an observant sense of humour, as well as the more serious concept of how individuals were bound ninefold to their family, clan and community.

Alain de Botton, a well-known atheist intellectual, has a particular gripe: he says he first advocated a "secular assembly" five years ago, but what he had in mind was a "richer, deeper and more serious" concept than Mr Jones's brainchild.

This cover version has a serious concept and a lot of thought behind it, but it's always very playful and simple.

Ms. Kucka reminds us that serious, concept-based art can also be pleasurable to view.

A serious restaurant in a museum: what a good concept.

By Lizzie Widdicombe A serious restaurant in a museum: what a good concept.

Acquired characteristics are not inherited, though the idea persisted as a serious scientific concept into the 20th century.

Beyond the glib smokescreen of what Timothy Sandefur calls the "foolish, misguided, politically biased, intentionally misleading nonsense" written about substantive due process lies a serious jurisprudential concept that would have been perfectly familiar to the Framers of both the original Constitution and the Reconstruction Amendments -- and embraced by many of them.