Sentence examples for serious or a from inspiring English sources

"Is it serious or a comedy?" Joanne fluttered her eyelids tantalisingly.

He asked him whether his notes at the end of The Waste Land were serious or "a lark".

If this sounds just too ridiculous, then clutch or shove nonchalantly under your arm while all the times looking extremely serious, or a tad cross.

At that stage they could not be sure whether it was serious or a hoax and one of the three main men, Harry Easterly, a former marine who had seen service at Iwo Jima, was against telling the player.

In search of latterday youth subcultures, I'm pointed in various directions by various people, but I invariably can't work out whether what I'm looking at is meant to be serious or a joke: never really a problem in the days when members of different youth cults were prepared to thump each other.

A UN security resolution is to be tabled on Tuesday night by Britain, France and the US to test whether Russian support for a proposal to force Syria to make public its chemical weapons programme is serious or a "ruse", David Cameron has said.

They can read a situation instantly, ie they will know if a situation is serious or not serious or an emergency or not an emergency.

If things get serious, or an attempt to commit suicide is witnessed, notify your parents and/or call the emergency services immediately.

"Because the situation is very serious, and he doesn't have a serious lawyer or a serious accountant.

But I can't quite read The Transmigration of Bodies as a serious, or even a comic, take on the carnage of the drugs wars.

"He is either a serious collector or a serious investor".