Sentence examples for serious scenes from inspiring English sources

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.

There are a few tiny gestures toward the uncanny in the way that animals are filmed, particularly the camels, with their gurning lips and swivelling heads: they intrude humourously on otherwise serious scenes.

And she didn't smirk through the serious scenes.

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

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.

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.