"What makes it funny is the seriousness".
Bill Kristol, Peggy Noonan, Colin Powell, Danielle Pletka have all at various times suggested that his vague positions lacked seriousness.
Calder took everything seriously except seriousness.
Another way of saying this is that bogus science gives vague, undisciplined thinking the look of seriousness and truth.
Even the Edinburgh fringe, an invaluable platform for new material, seems to treat musicals with vague embarrassment and a lack of critical seriousness.
He denounces Scudéry's works "for their lack of seriousness, for their airs, for their vague and superficial dialogues, for their fawning portraits of quite mediocre people, even on occasion very ugly people, and for their interminable and verbose effusions on love"[OC, p.445].
Lacking both the necessary implication of three dimensions and seriousness of intent, the results feel superficial and contextually vague.
That March, I read "The Trial," which I vaguely recall being recommended to me by some other young man of high seriousness and literary inclination — but precisely which such young man now escapes me.
In February , 1984 under the influence of a boyfriend who fancied himself a Wildean wit, I read "The Importance of Being Earnest". (You never forget your first aphorist). That March, I read "The Trial," which I vaguely recall being recommended to me by some other young man of high seriousness and literary inclination but precisely which such young man now escapes me.
The expression "several times" is, objectively, a vague specification of prevalence and is open for interpretation, but it indicates some regularity and seriousness of pain.
