The customary congressional self-seriousness, combined with an embarrassing amount of hero worship and token moralizing, was enough to inspire fantasies of another government shutdown.
The whole B side combined seriousness, wisdom, and exactitude with the kind of tuneful pleasures that made me feel almost guilty, they were so easy on the ear.
The need for quick-wits in debate, seriousness of intention combined with generosity, self-deprecation and humor: I'm saying that he had these qualities, not that I gained them!
My personal favourite would be Olivia Williams – a very fine actor who I sense could bring things to the Doctor we've never seen before – she has a vulnerability combined with seriousness, she'd play the role with absolutely no bouncing around whatsoever, surely a welcome contrast to what's gone before.
After reading portions of the complaint, I determined it would have been wrong to sit on the information, given the seriousness of the allegations combined with their source: a former administrator who worked closely with the sexual assault reporting process.
Under the direction of George Eugeniou, this new version is a piece of rough theatre that combines seriousness with fun, beginning and ending with women banging out a militant message, but also playing up the piece's farce.
A wartime marriage to Inez Waugh, the former wife of a colleague, produced a home life which combined the high seriousness of Balliol Marxism with an extravagant bohemianism.
This was a generation of thinkers and writers, including big names such as Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir and Raymond Aron, who combined deep moral seriousness with commitment to literature, politics and the real world.
The machismo of some retailers, combined with the seriousness with which certain aspects of riding are advertised, seems to leave little room for those women who are on the road not because they believe a brand may help them prove something about themselves, but for the fun of it.
David Szalay's All That Man Is has all you expect to find in a good novel: a highly distinctive tone, an original structure, excellent pace, and a jaunty wit combined with sombre seriousness: it's a rich fulfilment of the exceptional promise in his three previous books.
