Sentence examples for serious picture from inspiring English sources

"The report paints a pretty serious picture of the level of contamination".

This wondrous hearts-and-flowers nonsense that was supposed to be a serious picture about Japan.

They're doing, for want of a better word, a Carry On movie and we're doing a serious picture," he says.

Adolf Berle, writing in the Book Review, said that while the book contained "an uncomfortable degree of truth," Mills presented "an angry cartoon, not a serious picture".

No sign so far of such perennial Coen trademarks as vomiting, bellowing and wigs – but then no serious picture gives everything away in the trailer.

Filled with memorable tableaus, the movie is a serious picture show whose cinematography by Conrad L. Hall lends every frame an Edward Hopper-like mood.

The sugar level can induce diabetic coma, and the late "serious" pictures replace the sugar with cod-liver oil.

Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels spun the tale a successful comedy director who wants to make big, serious pictures about the issues that matter.

"Even with serious pictures like 'Hiroshima Mon Amour,' the reviewers mainly picked out mistakes," said Donald Richie, an American film historian based in Tokyo.

For Mr. MacFarlane, who was nominated as writer of the lyrics for "Everybody Needs a Best Friend," from "Ted," the biggest challenge may be the need to wring laughs out of so many serious pictures.

Fox Searchlight's soft spot for off-center comedy has gotten the studio on tiptoes but never quite kissed come Oscar night: voters may love their beautiful losers, but serious pictures like "Crash" or "The Departed" tend to go home with the prize.