Is the triumph of America's Army as propaganda a tacit admission that the entire point of video games is the lack of certain kinds of real-world seriousness within them?
He sought admission somehow into that distant world of seriousness and commitment — a connection to "the Moses generation".
He sought admission somehow into that distant world of seriousness and commitment a connection to "the Moses generation".
This is not a role to be taken lightly, but one in which Sabathia dares to declare to the world the seriousness of his emerging talent, and his ability to go along with a gag.
After nearly two years of exhaustive campaigning to expose to the world the seriousness of the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, a small step has finally been taken by international governments.
Thousands of English fans who don't hurl chairs at foreigners across Belgian town squares are nonetheless happy to sing xenophobic songs inside the stadiums, many of which incessantly hark back to the second world war.The seriousness of last weekend's carnage in Belgium may have been exaggerated by its ceaseless repetition on television.
This Nabokovian jauntiness co-exists uneasily with the world-historical seriousness Amis adopted from Saul Bellow that, when combined with a patchy knowledge of world history and some primordial anxiety about cultural otherness, results in some pretty incoherent political postures.
In 2015, Leon and Lim orchestrated a sendup of fashion-world self-seriousness: dancers masquerading as models mock-tripped and tumbled down the runway, falling flat on their faces a stunt choreographed by Justin Peck.
No one in the evangelical world doubts the seriousness of their credentials or the sincerity of their convictions.
I'd had a glimpse into a world of adult seriousness, in which fathers despaired of their lives and children, abandoned, had to fend for themselves.
After 9/11, he was quick to embrace the world's new seriousness, taking the Mirror back to its campaigning, leftwing roots.
