Sentence examples for serious scene from inspiring English sources

I didn't want a serious scene, I didn't want to let the air out of the balloon.

The film's single best and most serious scene, arriving in its abruptly melodramatic third act, finds Libby desperately begging the Stantons to assess their campaign ethics.

She would sooner talk about her work, wax lyrical about Paul Abbott's writing quirks, his tendency to make up words and defuse a serious scene with a dash of slapstick.

And then the 18th century, and morality, and sensibility, overtook heroines on the respectable stage (low melodrama, mother to movies and comics and telly, is quite another story), and no Meg beswindged or cudgelled or lammed her way through a serious scene again.

But in one corner of the park, in front of a host of cameras and monitors, a more serious scene is playing out.

Q: At one point, I started laughing even though it was a serious scene, because she's so cynical and hard-assed in a way.

Below them are ranked Edward Heath and, provisionally, Tony Blair the former because of his European vision and the latter as a potentially serious scene-shifter.Next come Winston Churchill (as a post-war leader) and James Callaghan, both presented as non-transforming, traditionalist copers.

Comic and serious scenes alternate.

"To not have the more serious scenes to balance out the humor feels somehow disrespectful to these characters".

More than once, relatively serious scenes are taking place downstage while upstage, sillier behavior (one man comically swooning over unrequited love, a woman swatting a manservant with her umbrella) is going on.

But its central thrust is similar to Ingmar Bergman's deadly serious Scenes From a Marriage: wedlock can be the death of romance; love can be better the second time around (even with the same partner); the greatest challenge to a relationship is making that transition from midlife crisis to sensible middle age.