With his serious spectacles and his comic golden perm, Benny is the most winning character on display, all the acquired savagery in him half tamed — but only half — by the innate, girl-pulling ease of his demeanor.
Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PA 11.06pm BST... then the speeches Lord Coe, wearing serious spectacles ((c) @owen_g) starts his speech saying that he is honoured to welcome home the Paralympic games, a movement that shows what sport is about - the barriers you can break, that refuses to take no for an answer.
A similar situation faced theaters, which were forbidden by the Germans to produce "serious" spectacles.
The gangly Merchant, with his 6-foot-7 frame and serious spectacles, is highly adept at this — he is not quite made for this world.
Looking studious and serious in spectacles, cream sweater and denim skirt, Sasha, 14, who had put more distance than her sister between herself and the leader of the free world, melted into laughter at that.
In his 1982 book, "Live and Off-Color: News Biz," he complained that executives' lust for ratings led them to prefer spectacle over serious news.
In the past few years, I have begun to witness the previously unthinkable in my adopted home country: heated debates around the dinner table at which, remarkably, a majority of the (Spanish) guests say they have serious reservations about a spectacle that mistreats animals for our viewing pleasure.
All in all, "Skyfall" looks like the type of Bond adventure that you'd expect from the Craig era of the franchise: Dark, brutal, filled with spectacle and serious.
