THE French documentary filmmaker Thomas Balmès has a decided taste for serious — one might even say wonky — subject matter.
Very occasionally, a bluestocking -- a governess, a young woman with a taste for serious reading -- would appear in a play or story, without mockery, but without sustained wit either.
Not everyone will be happy with his remarks about Drake's "serious character flaws", including "a taste for violence", "extreme callousness" and "a streak of covetousness".
But he also had a taste for more serious reading, and he gave his imprimatur to books such as Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States," Elaine Pagels' "The Gnostic Gospels" and Julian Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind".
Collectively they form a varied and surprising bunch with a taste for playful-but-serious provocation: the spirit of Danny Boyle passes through, one is tempted to say.
Is he Ted Turner gone mad, Mark Burnett of "Survivor" gone serious or the inevitable result of our taste for voyeurism?
And as for his taste for Speer, well, there are serious people who consider Leni Riefenstahl a major artist, too.
Courses at Columbia's Journalism School honed her taste for hard-news reporting and serious talk shows.
He was a loveable revolutionary, with a taste for gentle self-mockery, even of his most serious beliefs - certainly one of Arnold Bennett's natural "cards".
Brown was a flamboyant figure, with a closet full of Brioni suits and fedoras, and a gourmand's taste for food and wine, but he had a serious talent for leveraging his power, and he managed his members with finesse.
