This was a most serious public utterance, delivered with appropriate solemnity, on the weightiest matter a head of state can reflect upon.
More broadly, Du Fu's work in transforming the lǜshi from mere word play into "a vehicle for serious poetic utterance" set the stage for every subsequent writer in the genre.
In a similar spirit to that of Cohen, Searle (1968, p. 407) observes that a serious and literal utterance of 'I promise to read that novel,' made under what he terms "conditions of successful utterance", also counts as a promise.
Underneath it all, though, he's the same carnival barker that New Yorkers have had to put up with for decades: an aptly named tub of hot air, whose noisy and odiferous utterances rarely withstand serious scrutiny.
Mr. McKellen, the "Lord of the Rings" and "X-Men" star, whose utterances are either deeply serious or extremely arch, opted for the second.
"There is a serious concern about such kind of utterances by responsible people". India has a mixed relationship with science.
His utterances, however madcap, had a serious intent: all those consonant-studded phrases and skittering inflections evoked the clangor of a full percussion section.
Such a view faces serious difficulties accommodating the evident semantics of self-ascriptive utterances, including their use in inference and the apparent symmetries between present-tense and past-tense uses and between first-person and third-person uses (Wright 1998; Bar-On 2004).
FROM the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli and now to the dust of Kandahar: the deployment of American marines in Afghanistan this week proves more powerfully than all the supposedly epochal utterances made since September 11th that the United States is both serious about its campaign against al-Qaeda and well on the way to winning it.
Second, Austin fails here, and elsewhere, to offer serious arguments for his assertion that none of the cited utterances is either true or false.
