Sentence examples for something this serious from inspiring English sources

"But they wouldn't do something this serious".

"The answer we get right now on something this serious is 'Blah, blah, blah,' " he said.

Greeting people, he smiled eagerly, something this serious young musician never did on stage.

"This is really the first time in Italy that somebody at this high of a level has been charged with something this serious," said Alberto Alessandri, a law and finance professor at Bocconi University.

"I'm not sure pro sports have had something this serious confront them in the last 50 years," said Peter Roby, director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, who has just been named the university's athletic director.

"You don't expect something this serious to happen.

It runs something like this: serious problems produce crises; therefore problems resolved without a crisis can't have been very serious.

Mr Lewis says:The lie at the bottom of the fantasy goes something like this: serious college football players go to college for some reason other than to play football.

And yet the anger at people who want to do something about this serious problem, and even (gasp) profit from the shift or build a more prosperous and healthy country, continues to rise (I've even received hate mail for fairly innocuous commentary on how good it will be for business and national competitiveness to wean ourselves off of oil and carbon).

"English is one of the richest languages and yet we use this word very liberally, often to mean something other than this serious, complicated disease". To illustrate the reach of the illness, she shows viewers the stories of depression sufferers.

This isn't about trolls (their viciousness is merely a symptom of something more serious); this is about people who would never class themselves as abusers or hecklers, let alone "nasty".