Sentence examples for with a serious point from inspiring English sources

But, like most satire, it is a joke with a serious point.

It has been a joke, in other words, with a serious point.

But this is comedy with a serious point and a political purpose that get submerged under the jokiness of Deborah Bruce's production and the colloquial chirpiness of Frank McGuinness's new version.

Batchelor's question was asked in fun, but with a serious point.

But the commercial comes with a serious point, stated in a voice-over at the end: "Think it's weird to collect air?

Anyway, bear with me, because a serious point is going to emerge from these memories of the mead hall.

Donne will play games with broken structure, to make a serious point; he will pile up metaphors to talk to us of how faith, how conversion to faith or some other conviction, is a breaking, is like moving into a new state where everything is up for grabs.

Each scene lasts just a few minutes but manages, with depth and candor, to make a serious point about the personal and political stew that is public education.

"The bureaucracy in New York is totally entrenched," said Joseph Vellano, president of Vellano Brothers, a contracting firm in Rochester, with tongue in cheek but making a serious point.

Indeed, the prevailing consensus seems to be a not-too-faint echo of the classic Britpop statement from Jarvis Cocker (who is himself a long-time Paris resident): "You can take your Year in Provence and shove it up your arse!" Actually, Jarvis is making a serious point and I agree with him.

But, as with all things Oprah, underneath all the schmaltz and adulation was a serious point.