Sentence examples for serious readings from inspiring English sources
China's environmental authorities classify readings above 300 on their air-quality index as "serious"; readings of 201-300 are "heavy .Under an orange alert, factories will be made to reduce or halt production.
Brad Watson, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Alyson Hagy (and too many others to list here) have gone out of their way to give my work careful, serious, readings and I'm extremely grateful for that.
In the 1990s, Detzner's work received some rehabilitation from ethnographer Terence Hays, who placed Detzner's work in its contemporary context: Four Years Among the Cannibals, he wrote, "paved the way for me [to become an ethnographer] by creating romanticized images that served as a backdrop for more serious readings".
They read serious literature: "Readings of Gold," intended for grades three to six, has excerpts from O. Henry, Poe, Twain and Maya Angelou.
Mr. Kubrick's straight-faced satire may include bizarre characters with ridiculous names -- Gen. Jack D. Ripper, President Merkin Muffley and, of course, Col. Bat Guano -- but they always deliver their lines with complete conviction, drawing comedy from the contrast between the serious line readings and the utter silliness of what's being said.
Now, David Brooks is a serious, philosophy-reading conservative.
When his new novel, Freedom, came out in late summer, it seemed for awhile to catch the attention of a serious fiction-reading audience.
Over the course of the show's eight episodes, Neil Casey emerged as the standout of "Other Space": He plays an odd duck named Kent, and his dead-serious line readings were often the funniest things in any given episode.
Reading serious nonfiction in the summer is an immersion in the world of necessary ideas.
Prediction: Preston Were the Football League serious about rewarding Reading with an advantage for finishing above their play-off semi-final opponents, Burnley, they would let Steve Coppell's side play the away fixture second, so poor is their form at the Madejski.
In two installments of "Assisted Living," one from 2011 and one a première subtitled "Do You Have Any Money?," the veteran dancers known as the Raindears juxtapose readings of serious texts with found movement and pratfalls.
