Sentence examples for serious ends from inspiring English sources

Again Robbins applied cartoon methods to serious ends.

It's a goofy gambit to serious ends, a very physical expression of his desire to do something remarkable.

In The Art of War, often attributed to Sunzi (5th century bce) but most likely composed early in China's Warring States period (475 221 bce), war is treated as a serious means to serious ends, in which it is understood that shrewd strategists might target not an enemy's forces but intangible objects the foremost of these being the opponent's strategy.

There are zany acronyms and gamey puns galore: a strip joint called "Joie de Beavre"; a riff about a "cereal killer"; and a whole Scooby-Doo-among-the-Colombian-drug-cartels skit designed entirely to tee up the punch-line "Those Medellin kids!" But, in the postmodern way, Bleeding Edge combines apparently unserious, even puerile, means with deadly serious ends.

Blank, who will be honored at an upcoming festival in Toronto, was known to take forever to edit a film, and nearly all three dozen of them are like collages, or quilts, with patiently gathered scenes that are stitched together with humor that ultimately has quite serious ends — stitched together by someone who was maybe never satisfied and a little cranky (good things for us).

National Youth Manager Inspector Ross Lienert told RNZ, "It's important that we acknowledge youth offending has dropped something like 50percentt in the last five years but the sector has been struggling with the more serious ends of crimes it is concerning".

Suddenly all the people at the serious end of the paper turned into sports reporters.

Hilariously, given the deathly serious end result, he thought he was directing a comedy.

He didn't speak to the local officers; he spoke to the serious end.

At the "serious" end of the market, the parallels are even more pronounced.

It is a fittingly serious end for a refreshingly grown up show.