Sentence examples for serious establishment from inspiring English sources

But the main thrust of the action involves the young Tumble's attempt to be accepted into an elite educational academy, whose unsmiling principal, played by Ronni Ancona, keeps reminding him that she runs a "serious establishment".

You wonder whether there may be a veiled metaphor here about Fletcher's relationship with the serious establishment, though once Ancona's sourness has been cured by a custard pie to the face she asks how he seems to make people so effortlessly happy.

"They are contacting us left and right about joining the campaign, and these are serious establishment types," Trump said.

With this kind of muddled thinking by our "very serious" establishment, we're in for a long, bumpy ride.

It has a serious military establishment, including nuclear arms, and an expeditionary tradition.

Yet the use of the term 'rock opera' was mischievous and itself a stab at the entrenched snobbery that existed then within the walls of the serious music establishment.

Maybe it is a thwarted desire to win over the "serious" literary establishment that has driven Keyes to create such an un- Keyesian central character - humourless and devoid of common sense.

This pocket-size "movement" has since hit serious cocktail establishments in Chicago and San Francisco.

Poetry to them, she tells me, was entertainment, to be read out or performed in pubs, but also something that had a serious and anti-establishment edge.

Mr. Mancini has been reviewing restaurants here for 10 years, but his first writing job was reviewing strip clubs, a feat he pulled off elegantly in serious columns evaluating establishments that the "entertainment" columns in most cities tend to ignore.

There was no serious search until the establishment of the Jamestown colony, in 1607.