Sentence examples for true serious from inspiring English sources

All my life, I'd known comics from Mad magazine or the newspapers; I hadn't realised they could be used to tell true, serious stories.

But that was already true: serious applied monetary economists pretty much stopped talking about monetary aggregates as a measure of policy years ago, and these days it's almost all in terms of target interest rates.

An upper bound on the rate of serious toxicity was chosen to claim, with at least 90% probability, that the true serious toxicity rate was no greater than 20% (7, 10).

Such an approach prioritises sensitivity (not missing a true serious illness) at the expense of specificity (restricting treatment of those without serious illness) in a population of vulnerable patients.

Is it true that serious allegations are swept under the carpet?

And this is true for serious term papers as well as for history books, calculus, science, foreign languages and the rest.

Or does it sound – and read – more like a true and serious novelist, whose world is as solid as Thomas Hardy's Wessex and Jane Austen's Bath?

That is not actually true: a serious academic work could be written examining the things governments got right and lessons to be learnt therefrom – but who would buy a book entitled The Successes of our Governments.

The Environment Agency's report conceded that if the allegations against Trafigura were true, "a serious offence was committed with relevant aspect of the conduct taking place within the jurisdiction".

"Even if some claims have been embellished, I am sure that enough of them are true and serious enough to give cause for concern, and the seriousness of those claims should not be diminished," he said.

While this is perhaps true for serious literary criticism, it's manifestly not true when it comes to experiencing a book purely for the pleasure of its characters, setting, dialogue, drama, and the Scheherazadean impulse to know what happens next — which, all apologies to Bloom, is why most people pick up a book in the first place.