Tóibín, it should be added, has serious interests.
With no hobbies, serious interests, romantic attachments and an always-empty refrigerator, he was free to pursue his new obsession at any time of day or night.
"What we've been doing saying there are these serious interests but what we need to do is address the hostility towards disabled people," he said.
By endorsing the ill-advised and divisive United Nations' war against Katanga, we approved what amounts to a double-standard policy by the United Nations and opposed the serious interests of England, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands.
In an interview with Charlie Rose before he left for Europe, Obama made the argument for stepping up U.S. engagement, saying, "We've got serious interests there, and not only humanitarian interests.
A man of broad and not always serious interests, Sir Michael had a renegade streak, reflected in his thumb-in-the-eye literary survey, "Fifty Works of English and American Literature We Could Do Without" (1967).
