Sentence examples for serious reference from inspiring English sources

This has not one serious reference to sustainable development in it.

But then I wouldn't have thought of using Wikipedia as a serious reference source.

Now we read about the socioeconomic arguments concerning the sewage transfer from Great Neck to a treatment plant in Wantagh ["Not in My Sewage Plant," March 2] with no serious reference to environmental concerns.

He tried to struggle through Lovecraft pastiches, but at the first painfully serious reference to the Elder Gods, he felt some important part of him going numb inside, the way a foot or a hand will go to sleep when the circulation is cut off.

The manifesto presents serious references as well as jokes, depicting previous far-right murderers such as Anders Breivik and Dylann Roof as models.

Here Berger adopts the distinct voice of the medieval-epic narrator, slipping easily into the rhythm and pattern of courtly speech, with its "And"s and "Now"s and "Whilst"s, its frequent and self-serious references to the glory of God and the sin of doubt.

Time provided me with reference images to sift through and I illustrated from a photograph that I thought would be a good reference for an iconic and compelling protester who would come across as serious, but not scary.

"She came in with good references from people in the village and seemed a very serious and caring person".

Earn me some serious Tubmans," – references to Clinton's lucrative speeches on Wall Street and the recent decision to put the founder of the Underground Railroad on the national currency.

When Circus Oz raises it, the fun really begins, with a reprise of one of its signature acts, "Fountains," in which members of the company, costumed like classical white marble statues, strike poses of balletic form, making certain to undercut the serious artistic references by spraying themselves and their surroundings with mouthfuls of water.

"The World Series" is an obvious play on games, while "The Great Migration" is almost painfully serious in its reference to a historical event that Lawrence eagerly sought to publicize.