Sentence examples for serious playful from inspiring English sources
Sparring respectfully with Mr. Jay, the inquiry's counsel, she was alternately serious, playful, indignant and lecturing.
Mr. James really made his name here in the 1970s when he began writing about television for The Observer of London — pieces that were serious, playful and howlingly witty, often in the space of a single paragraph.
The cover, with its play on an American Express card, at first struck me as risky: will the average bookstore browser know whether this is deadpan or serious, playful or sociological?
She consults her past, her conscience, her time and puts together a volume at once irreverent and deeply serious, playful and practical, partaking of poetry throughout as it pursues the meaning, the possibility, and the power of the life of the poet.
It's also serious, playful, and chaotic.
Should the tone be serious or playful?
Wilson's tone alternates between serious and playful.
He was as serious and playful as White's text.
Suffice it to say, it's serious and playful.
Her songs are cunning and serious or playful and exuberant but always carefully made.
They are ancient and modern, rough and smooth, violent and beautiful, serious and playful.
