Sentence examples for serious figure from inspiring English sources

Who, one might ask, is a serious figure?

And Mr Carswell is a big, serious figure.

He is a serious figure from a serious party whose conference week was not serious enough.

"Navalny is a very serious figure and the most promising politician in Russia today.

"She has established herself again as a serious figure in the Labour party," he said.

As I noted back in March, O'Malley is a serious figure who demands some respect.

An interesting component, which also occurs in later Western theatre, is the use of clowns often deformed to parody the more serious figures.

Feminine culture, Rourke wrote, "rose on the American horizon in a cloud no larger than a lady's book.... Obviously social comedy could not develop when women remained shadowy, serious figures".

There are serious figures and interests, even for the most self-interested of reasons, who want to see an end to Kadyrov, perhaps the most grotesque of the cast in today's Russian drama.

In friendly capitals serious figures yearn to see the legal vacuum filled, as well as progress on such issues as banning land mines.Mr Obama always planned for an eight-year presidency.

With Carlos Acosta as ambassador (a role as yet undefined beyond its publicity value), the panel judging the competition's final will include Tamara Rojo, Wayne McGregor, Matthew Bourne, Akram Khan and Kenrick "H2O" Sandy; and even the early rounds of the competition are to be judged by serious figures such as David Nixon, Seeta Patel and Sharon Watson.