seriousness
Example Sentences
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Their mood, allowing for occasional moments of Great Seriousness, is sunny, their glass never less than three-quarters full — of lemonade, probably.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2022
Seriousness in cinema is often viewed with suspicion and that’s as true now as it was when, say, Antonioni shook up the art.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2017
"Seriousness, rather than depression is, I think, the characteristic of my work," he once told an interviewer.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2016
In the 1980s the term emerged as a Signifier of Seriousness with incantory power over capital pundits akin to that of “Simpson-Bowles” today — and with the same air of unreality.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2012
Seriousness of life for a Caribou seems confirmed from its infancy.
From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Harper, Francis