14 Metaphors for serious

But most serious of all was the general, for he had seen that which brought a flush to his cheeks and a frown to his brow.

Perhaps the most serious of all obstacles to peace was the fact that the British still kept the lake posts.

"Serious should be an author's final views;

I'm as serious as death.

But the breaking of the engagementa step almost as serious as divorce in the Germany of that dayhe seems to have conducted with his characteristic gentleness and tact; for Ernestine did not cease to be his friend and Clara's.

Under the surface I am as serious as fire.

Canada has in her time known calamity more serious than floods, frost, drought, and fireand has macadamized some stretches of her road toward nationhood with the broken hearts of two generations.

"I imagine it's nothing more serious than indigestion.

One is tempted to wonder whether anything more serious than light loves and fantastic amours can have flourished amid eighteenth-century pastoralism.

" "I was doing so," she answered, "and wondering why professional women are usually so much more serious than men.

These accidents are more serious than people generally suppose, and often more difficult to cure than a broken log or arm.

He was no more serious than thousands of other young men who plan their lives early and live them up to specifications; but Olga Tcherny, who had flitted a zig-zag butterfly course among the exotics, now found in the meadows she had scorned a shrub quite to her liking.

Ever since the revival of the aggressions on Colonial rights, "Hyperion" (Josiah Quincy, Jr.) says, the Loyalists publicly threatened the defenders of the rights of America with halters, fire, and fagots; but there was nothing more serious than threats, or more authentic than rumors, until this appearance of the Romney and her two tenders.

Petty meanness, in his code, was almost as serious as wanton homicide; and I do believe that he respected a murderer more than a man given to small practices.

14 Metaphors for  serious