Sentence examples for serious point in from inspiring English sources

There is a serious point in among the whimsy, though: stories are not actually about the celebrities.

"We hope it to be both fun and serious," he said of the contest, "making a serious point in a fun way".

But the serious point in this: that Europe perennially fails to make its case to the public because it struggles to quantify and specify the subtle ways in which it touches our lives.

Then his tone changes: "There is a more serious point in the context of all the things I do now: if you are a black businessperson in the UK, there is a danger you look like all the other black business people".

He does make a serious point in his book about presidential campaigns: urging voters in both parties (Webb used to be a Republican) to "be as shrewd and ruthless in your demands on our leaders as the wizards running campaigns are in their strategies to get your vote".

While light poetry is sometimes condemned as doggerel, or thought of as poetry composed casually, humor often makes a serious point in a subtle or subversive way.

But Penhall has the gift of making serious points in a comic manner and of conveying moral indignation without preaching.

This was followed in 2006 by Confessions of an Irish Werewolf, another phantasmagoric book which made serious points in a deceptively burlesque style.

The same flatness enters the otherwise lively "The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo" on occasion, whenever Schumer tries to make a good point in a serious, self-consciously correct tone.

The serious point stands: in Britain, as in many other European countries, the overall evolution among the great majority of Muslims has been towards an acceptance of, and even an active support for, freedom of expression, which necessarily includes the right (though not a duty) to offend.

"It's depressing that it's seen as OK to be a fuck-up again," explains Van Wyngarden, making a more serious point that in the aftermath of Pete, Amy and Britney, Heath Ledger's death was suddenly "massive news.