Sentence examples for seriousness intelligence from inspiring English sources
Seriousness, intelligence, wit, and joy are not mutually exclusive from pain.
Cameron might have been able to capture something of Eliot's great seriousness, intelligence, and generosity — her expression "not only of habitual brooding thought and intellectual travail but of intense and yearning human sympathy and tenderness," as one observer put it.
Indeed, when we think about what distinguishes Williams — his seriousness, intelligence and formal originality, his bracing skepticism about the claims of art matched to a tangible ambition to make art that matters — these ingredients seem as though they might result in indispensable poems, as indeed they often have.
HBO's Monday night documentary series, an oasis of seriousness and intelligence among the mostly mindless diversions of the summer television season, offers a combination of mystery, morality play and almost unbearable family tragedy in "THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH AUNT DIANE" (9 p.m. Monday).
Most observers describe Kagame's personality as one of seriousness and intelligence.
Some decry the loss of seriousness, depth, subtlety, intelligence and moral engagement that's resulted.
Couve de Murville was always praised for his intelligence, seriousness and dedication.
This is a very rare achievement in contemporary poetry -- a philosophical idea treated, not glibly, obscurely or melodramatically, but with due seriousness and real intelligence.
"It's a very high threat environment with Al Qaeda right now because of the quality, quantity and seriousness of the intelligence we're getting," said one Congressional official who receives regular updates from the C.I.A. and Defense Intelligence Agency.
But when it came to a work I wanted to purchase – in this case Louis MacNeice's "Collected Poems" – my language disintegrated, became soft and squishy as I began to throw around words like "ironic intelligence," "seriousness," "wit" and "incomparable".
His seriousness, anger and intelligence are evident here, but they are animated by an almost giddy joy at being alive, an embrace of the sheer marvelousness of being himself.
