Smolin offers a much more substantial and serious exploration of the theory's vulnerabilities in "The Trouble With Physics".
It's a ravishing film, and more substantial and serious than its unashamedly lyrical beauty might lead you to think.
We believe that any legal constraints on artistic and press freedom should only be used to prevent irreparable, substantial and serious harm to individuals.
Given the nature of his illness the appeal court found that it was "reasonable" to conjecture that "there is a substantial and serious risk of excruciating pain if Bucklew were to be subjected to Missouri's execution protocol".
It has never been and may never be put to use on a battlefield because of substantial and serious resource constraints, but it is a developed operational attack plan announced in 2004 and intended to be taken off the shelf and implemented within a 72-hour period during a crisis.
In the film, he plays a documentary filmmaker named Cliff whose most substantial and serious intellectual and personal relationship is with his niece, Jenny (Jenny Nichols), whom he takes to watch classic movies at the late, lamented Bleecker Street Cinema, and to whom he pontificates cheerfully, innocently — basking in her admiration while hardly giving her a chance to speak.
What "Suffragette" is in fact about is so substantial, so serious, and, at times, so surprising, that the movie's lack of vision (both literal and metaphorical), its failures of imagination, its built-in inhibitions and shortcuts, are all the more unfortunate.
He and other Western diplomats refused to detail the offer before it was presented to the Iranians, but one senior diplomat called the offer "substantial and serious" and said recent news reports that suggested only some loosening in sanctions regarding gold sales "do not reflect the full offer".
Pessimists argue that economic calculations will go out the window and that the political fallout from an Israeli strike will be substantial and serious.
