"What is interesting," Ms. Tan said, "is that he has this very serious element in his work, yet, there is also a light-hearted, childlike approach".
In The Illustrated London News, Dent was much more appreciative: "The audience was at first inclined to treat the whole thing as an absurd joke, but there is always a surprisingly serious element in Miss Sitwell's poetry and Mr Walton's music … which soon induced the audience to listen with breathless attention".
Venetian operas were extravagant affairs in which the improbable plots a mixture of comic and serious elements—unfolded in simple recitative, and the arias took on a new, lyrical idiom.
"I mean, how do you describe the funny and the serious elements?" He answered himself in mock-serious critical tones: "It's a dramedy".
Calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) are serious hydrochemical elements in water (Razowska-Jaworek 2014).
Because of the show's premise, Perry will mix comedy with more serious dramatic elements in "Go On".
In other words, we have denied their sovereignty in situations where our administration considers that there is a serious element of communist infiltration.
There should be a serious element as well".
Kit Malthouse, a Westminster councillor, hopes such local initiatives will shame the government into action.There is, of course, a serious criminal element in London's vice trade, involving children and trafficked women.
The song's composition and recording incorporate both serious and throwaway elements, in keeping with the rest of Achtung Baby.
