A riot police officer's chest is protected by a serious guard, some sort of Kevlar vest, which can withstand at the very least knives, and maybe things stronger".
Adjectives that have been applied to the character Lucy Ricardo include funny, crafty, vulnerable, hapless, loveable — none of them quite apt when it came to describing the serious, guarded, literal-minded perfectionist Lucille Ball.
When Lyle succumbs to the advances of the awkward and serious guard at her community's gatehouse, for instance, her youth is made heartbreakingly explicit: "What she remembered most was Hector opening the condom wrapper with his teeth, like a McDonald's ketchup".
The wildest sequence in "Now You See Me 2" has the Horsemen smuggling the mini-circuit board, hiding on the back of a playing card, past some very serious security guards in a Macau research facility.
He spoke with ease on those subjects, but grew serious, almost guarded, in discussing the affairs of the archdiocese.
Gentrification has swept them all away; now there are serious antiques, guarded by dealers who know the value of their own specialties.
But the only course, if Congress is serious about guarding the nation, is to center homeland oversight and budgeting in single committees in the Senate and House.
(Mr. Parrish, the founding editor of The Los Angeles Times Magazine, is a freelance writer who has contributed to The New York Times. ) As for the current Jake, only his editor and a few higher-ups at Glamour know who he is, and they're very serious about guarding the secret, so that he never feels the need to censor himself, editors there said.
"There were no serious injuries to guards or detainees".
Although they'd surely hate the comparison, many wore hats as silly and expressions as serious as the guards at Buckingham Palace.
