While the haste and seriousness of efforts to comply must be lauded, caution must be applied to ensure that any solutions adequately address both individuals' interests in information concerning them, and the public interest in useful information curation.
Mr. Wells bridled at the term "junk shot," which he said betrayed the seriousness of the effort.
But there is no doubting the immense seriousness of his effort as an artist, one who, as his loyal supporter, Roger Fry, commented, refused "ever to trifle with his talent".
If the most eye-popping facet of England's achievement was the way they responded – with a hat-trick of tries in what seemed like the twinkling of an eye – to the surge from their vastly more battle-hardened opponents early in the second half, perhaps the most impressive was the consistency and seriousness of their effort.
As Semino (2008: 100) observes, the use of the WAR metaphor "tends to dramatize the opposition between different participants in politics," to "emphasize the gravity and urgency of the problem in question, and the seriousness of the effort that is being made to solve it".
But from the start, the task force -- officially, the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group -- has been dogged by critics questioning the seriousness of the effort, and by concerns that the legal timeframe in which investigators must bring cases is coming to a close.
Questions persist about the seriousness of the efforts of some elements of Pakistan's powerful intelligence service to find Mr. Pearl, as well as the seriousness of the Pakistani military's effort to crack down on militancy.
An initial revision of these proposed targets is expected in 2018, with the expectation that countries will increase their ambition to underscore the seriousness of global efforts.
"We are hopeful that the fourth batch will be released by the 29th of March because this will give a very solid impression about the seriousness of these efforts to achieve peace," Abbas said.
Not only does this argument make perfect sense; the integrity and seriousness of the interpretive effort depend on it.
The hiring of Mr. Seidel from a television channel is a coup because of what it says about the seriousness of YouTube's effort to create an alternative to cable television on the Internet.
