The intelligence about the plot against the schools was as "specific in detail and of similar seriousness" to that which caused the Bush administration to order the closing of the American Embassy here in September, the diplomat said.
Revolutionary when first published in 1968, the book comprehensively indexed and categorized every director Mr. Sarris could find, creating an exalted "Pantheon" (Hitchcock, Keaton, Lubitsch) as well as the dread "Strained Seriousness" zone to which Stanley Kubrick was relegated.
"I recognized my younger self in her in the sense of the seriousness and dedication to which she approaches the part," Ms. Mirren said.
At the joint session of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, no senators disputed the importance of the information that Dr. Lee downloaded nor did any question the seriousness of the crime to which he pleaded guilty.
Nearby, a group of French exchange students attending Berkeley College, in White Plains, N.Y., played down the seriousness of the charge to which the rapper pleaded guilty last year — attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree — after being arrested on July 22 , 2007 in Manhattan.
"Having spoken to Manu, he understands and accepts both the seriousness of the offences to which he has pleaded guilty and the consequences of his behaviour to his club, country and the game as a whole," said Lancaster in a terse statement.
"Having spoken to Manu, he understands and accepts both the seriousness of the offences to which he has pleaded guilty and the consequences of his behaviour to his club, country and the game as a whole".
The movie is in fact saturated with faith and belief, and part of its power is the absolute conviction of its cinematic language, an idiom of severity, austerity and high seriousness, imitating the spacious silences to which the monks have devoted themselves, and boldly supporting the validity and meaning of their dilemma.
Moreover, attempts at more precisely delineating the medical model in terms of 'seriousness' should take account of the fact that this is not an entirely objective criterium, given the extent to which the seriousness of a condition depends on individual circumstances and subjective understandings.
