52 Verbs to Use for the Word seriousness

"My companion had the tact not to talk much, and I was glad to think he could realize the seriousness of the step he had persuaded me to take.

*** With commendable idealism Mr. SIDNEY PATERNOSTER considers The Great Gift (LANE) to be Love, and brings a certain seriousness to bear upon his theme.

Their work showed a growing seriousness and acerbity.

" It is needless to remark that Lord Byron, in the course of these conversations, was incapable of preserving a consistent seriousness.

" So the military governor, as we observed next morning in a proclamation posted on the blank wall across the street, informing the inhabitants that they "apparently did not, as yet, understand the seriousness of the situation," ordered the city to pay a 'fine of five hundred thousand francs, and the citizens for two weeks to go within doors at sundown and not stir abroad before seven next morning.

A change of scene will dissipate a little the seriousness we have contracted during the late events.

It is so pretentious, so ridiculous that it takes away from the theory the seriousness which it would have given to less individual minds.

The writers of Alexandria lacked the 'high seriousness' of purpose to produce an Aeneid, the imaginative enthusiasm needed for a Faery Queen.

The battles which have raged since the end of September on the front between Givenchy la Gobelle and Armentières, have confirmed the deadly seriousness of the English.

A sense of responsibility for the success of the exhibition had deepened the habitual seriousness of her face, yet she greeted the audience with a smile.

Never were men engaged in a cause which demanded more seriousness of purpose, more modesty and humility of pretension.

Then, again, in many of these crucifixions and martyrdoms, the gross anachronisms, such as introducing monks and soldiers with match-locks and women in Gothic costume at the crucifixion, totally destroy the seriousness and interest of the subject by annihilating all illusion and exciting risibility.

There were times when Winona suffered herself to doubt her mother's seriousness; times when the woman appeared a slave to levity.

Nor must I over-emphasise the seriousness of our public interest.

When he does discuss the subject-matter of poetry, instead of emphasizing the seriousness of content, he talks about his mistress' "cristal eye.

" This amusing quotation suffices to show that the author of the "Ménagier de Paris" wished to adopt a jocose style, with a view to enliven the seriousness of the subject he was advocating.

The Puritan finds expression in the best poetry of the period, from Donne to Milton, and in the prose of Baxter and Bunyan; the Cavalier in a small group of poets,Herrick, Lovelace, Suckling, and Carew,who write songs generally in lighter vein, gay, trivial, often licentious, but who cannot altogether escape the tremendous seriousness of Puritanism.

He sees before him immense mercy, immense condescension, immense indulgence; but there are also immense requirementsrequirements not to be fulfilled by rule or exhausted by the lapse of time, and which the higher they raise men the more they exactan immense seriousness and strictness, an immense care for substance and truth, to the disregard, if necessary, of the letter and the form.

But then Scott had them too, and yet we feel in Victor Hugo's work a seriousness, a significance, a depth of tone, which never touches us in the work of his famous predecessor in romance, delightful as the best of that work is.

and Miss Eliza's thoughts flashed away to the nephew she loved, forgetting the seriousness of the message he had sent.

Others, again, used to spend the winter term and vacations in teaching in the rural or "district" schools to pay the expenses of the other terms, and the majority of the graduates were of these classes of men, often adults on entering, so that the class gathered seriousness as it went on.

Studying him a moment, Dr. Nicholls suddenly grasped the seriousness of Deacon's mood.

7. Lastly, it is our duty never so far to engage ourselves in this way as thereby to lose or to impair that habitual seriousness, modesty and sobriety of mind, that steady composedness, gravity and constancy of demeanour, which become Christians.

Yesterday I learned that shares were offered at £10 each, perchance from the efforts of forestallers, as also from the preaching of a dissenter, who fulminates that the end of the world is but three weeks away, which hath induced great seriousness among the people.

A fine seriousness invested hima seriousness which included, the observer felt sure, all imaginable fit forms of joy.

52 Verbs to Use for the Word  seriousness