The sheer number and seriousness of the challenges facing the NHS will allow the coalition government very little breathing space, even after the choreographed events of the last 48 hours.
The sheer number and seriousness of the human rights violations against migrants and other vulnerable sectors, such as the ones above, led the jury to find an overall pattern of state terror and state criminality.
Bergman's sheer intellectual and spiritual seriousness is remarkable.
But it may also be a fairly accurate dramatization of the strange cultural space that "The Prophet" occupies, poised awkwardly between utmost seriousness and sheer whimsy.
It is simply another subversive spectacle, the subversion of which consists at least partly in its semi-seriousness: the sheer insolence of treating the subject of slavery with a jokey lack of caution.
"Given the seriousness and the sheer number of charges, we cannot see how this company can remain in operation under the current ownership," a union spokesman, Scott Frotman, said.
"Given the seriousness, nature and sheer number of the allegations against Mr Lewis, it seems remarkable that he has not been suspended while they are investigated," said Biggs.
He accepted the unlikeliness of the proposition: retro culture, happy to pillage anything it can be affectionately ironic about, could not cope with that period's seriousness, let alone its sheer eclecticism.
Anna is a role of unusual seriousness, with practically no moments for sheer vocal display.
Speakers noted with wonder the sprawl and scope of the congress, the energy and seriousness of those attending, and the sheer diversity of expressions of faith.
