seriousness

How To Use seriousness In A Sentence

• But this exclamation is hyperbole; we are not speaking in literal seriousness.
• But to be fair to him, he kept his aplomb and asked me, with great seriousness, if the representation was a true and proportionate likeness. GALILEE
• When we arrived she was in such a distressed state that we had to treat it with the upmost seriousness.
• a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness
• I would have carried my burden more lightly, not been overcome by a spirit of seriousness and of shame.
• He has a steely-eyed seriousness about comedy, and confidence. Times, Sunday Times
• Schweiker describes his position as theocentric, but God seems to be a useful symbol that gives human agency seriousness and purpose by checking the unlimited expansion of human power.
• It's not just the tedium of the job - literally a daily grind, as they mash packets of powder into useable paint - it's the po-faced seriousness with which everyone around them gets on with things.
• The seriousness of the wrongdoing involved in such offences must be assessed by reference to the interests affected, the remoteness of the harm from the conduct, and culpability.
• Because of the potential seriousness of the incident, a site alert was announced.