Lloyd Sullivan, the eighty-one-year-old retired Bell engineer who owns the picture and is chiefly responsible for its ascent to scholarly seriousness, recalls seeing it as a child.
In all seriousness, I see the high feelings over these issues, on both sides of the aisle, as a key barrier to a more productive approach to policy.
"I admired his seriousness and saw him as something out of the Old Testament, forging ahead and pointing the way madly into the new world.
Optimistic revenue projections have troubled the Legislature for the last several years, as the state has grappled with a financial crisis of a seriousness not seen since the Great Depression.
He goes on to describe how these disgusting decadents use drugs, wave guns around to impress him and eat their own excrement out of boredom, concluding in all seriousness: "I see people for what they are.
The wayward friend is, of course, Vedder himself, and Off He Goes is, in part, a jab at his own angst and the seriousness that saw him declare, at the height of the group's fame, that he was "not your fucking messiah".
The Cost of Seriousness (1978) sees him grappling with the idea – or rather the immutable fact – of death in poems that are direct and unsentimental, while the poet himself is unable to find refuge in his art: "It is all rhetoric rich as wedding cake / and promising the same bleak tears... Real pain / it aims for, but can only make gestures, / the waste of selling-short, the 'glittering'".
At five, he joined the local little league and played with a seriousness rarely seen in kids his age; even the coach remarked on it.
This means that the issues are being addressed with the greatest responsibility, delicacy and seriousness to see if once and for all, the Colombian people can end this disastrous war that has profoundly harmed our society.
"We're a pretty jovial, congenial bunch, but there's kind of a look of seriousness I'm seeing now on people's faces.
