Sentence examples for was serious as from inspiring English sources

Suffering genital mutilation as a child was serious, as was a horrific beating she told of having received from a Muslim teacher in Kenya, when she no longer wished to attend his lessons.

Where was the foresight made to focus money and research on any of these even though we knew the problem was serious as long ago as the mid seventies!!

And he was serious, as if Ruiz had somehow spray-painted graffiti on his pristine five-borough blue line.

Max Fine's face was serious as he addressed the memberof the Excelsior Socal Club seated around the dining-room table in Bella Gross's apartment.

Johnson was certainly "serious" about literature, but he thought that writing was serious as conversation is serious, an occasion for wit and argument, not as sex and sermons are serious, a repository of fears and hungers.

Some of the 26,180 fans gave an awkward standing ovation, unsure if the injury was serious, as Reyes rose and was helped to the cart by the trainers Scott Lawrenson and Mike Herbst.

Although her poetry is often dismissed as light verse, it is serious as well as witty.

Happy go lucky, like to make people laugh but know when to be serious as well.

Bonaventura said that the film showed Wayans could be serious as well as funny.

Can the 21st Century musical be serious as well as fun, make money and have a run?

But he told Lavrov: "We are serious, as you are, about engaging in substantive, meaningful negotiations".