Sentence examples for this is actually serious from inspiring English sources

This is actually serious.

"Not for long," Di Natale replied, to which Butler said: "No, no, this is serious – this is actually serious," before referring to Labor's plan for a 50% renewables target by 2030, $500m in reef water quality funding and skills and training investment for a "just transition" in post-mining communities.

"The idea is that we've practiced democracy in Ireland and so not being able to practice it here, I was sort of like, Oh my God, we have to wake up, this is actually serious!" she told me.

Turns out the girl with the cushion-lips who played the girl with the pearl earring is actually serious about this music thing.

What looks like a game is actually serious work.

It took everyone a long time to catch onto the fact that "Rehab" is actually serious.

Colbert may joke about it, but Kwedit is, actually, serious business.

If the United States government is actually serious about encouraging employees to blow the whistle on tax fraud, the Birkenfeld precedent is simply not the way to accomplish those goals.

"After our friends and people we know began to get pepper sprayed and arrested, we were like 'oh, this is actually really serious,'" Boicourt says.

I suppose the people who were subjected to it can take some small measure of satisfaction that it was on April Fools Day, but one fears that some of the people behind this hearing are actually serious.

However, when you consider the ramifications – that your car can tell people where it is, that you're going to be getting shoes or a blender hidden in your car at some point, and that this is actually a serious start-up – and you start to wonder if Nick De May isn't crazy… like a fox.