Sentence examples for slightly serious from inspiring English sources

Nicolas is a burly, slightly serious fellow, but projects a quiet confidence.

They don't seem to quite get it: from this point on, if you're even slightly serious about meeting these targets, you have to do everything possible.

The new man is shocked that patients with any slightly serious complaint are invariably driven to the fully equipped hospital in the next town, and on the other side of the old homeland line.

But there's also a slightly serious side: There's different pricing for men and women, to highlight the disparity in earning power in the Valley.

And, to be slightly serious about (b), if you really did own rights to information about yourself, you would forever be suing people who gossip without permission about your tastes and preferences, doing even more for lawyers in the process than Bill Safire's proposal would.

We joked, even though we were slightly serious, that we could never get on the same plane because if it goes down there would be none of us left.

And there are a good few slightly less serious chapters – umbrellas, silly hats (those two done in depth to explore, of course, our histories of weather-watching and eccentricity).

They decided to sell and from Guy's point of view that's slightly less serious, he has a very good second horse.

"You are already seeing a slightly more serious tone, at least from Jeb Bush," she said.

The conversation took a (slightly) more serious turn when Clegg was questioned about the Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Slightly more serious than the marital problems of the super-wealthy are the recent exploits of a web-based frog.